[OpenID] Thinking About OpenID.com
Snorri
snorri at snorri.eu
Wed Mar 19 01:43:23 UTC 2008
I was connected with the owners of OpenID.com, (professionals of Domain
names Exchange)
Forgot a buyback because all the budget of the foundation would be
necessary!
But the domain names are not a problem, interesting study; +40% end users
enter the name of the site, e.g. : "Amazon" directly in Google/Yahoo or
toolbar and no in the address box... so with OpenID => Directly on
OpenID.net
IMO, the only efforts must be concentrated now on the RPs, all others things
are "details"
(maybe just to add an section in OpenID.net dedicated to Potential RPs with
the benefits)
Regards
-Snorri
-----Message d'origine-----
De : general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] De la
part de Johannes Ernst
Envoyé : mercredi 19 mars 2008 02:03
À : openid-general List
Cc : Recordon David
Objet : Re: [OpenID] Thinking About OpenID.com
Let's turn this question around. Never mind the domain, what exactly
is the content?
If we have the content and are really happy with it, finding a place
where to host it is the easy part.
I'm afraid that we won't come up with much better content, however ...
lots of people have tried already ...
On 2008/03/18, at 17:32, David Recordon wrote:
> Earlier today I came across a blog post
(http://www.jason-preston.com/index.php/2008/03/18/why-openid-will-never-wor
k/
> ) talking about some of the adoption hurdles around OpenID for normal
> people. The largest concern still seems to come from how OpenID.net
> presents (or doesn't) itself in terms of being dead simple to actually
> get an OpenID. While I don't agree with every point that Jason makes,
> I certainly understand what he is saying especially with how he ended
> his response to my comment:
>
>> I think it's just that the concept of OpenID is supposed to be
> "braindead simple login for disparate web services,"
>> and when you go to the page, what you see is "confusing multiple
> login accounts, none of which you can do
>> anything with from this page."
>
> Thus the thought in my head is one that has come up in the past,
> though never anything we've done something about. What if we actually
> purchase OpenID.com (like Jason suggested) and use it to be a dead-
> simple normal person destination site? OpenID.net can remain more
> targeted for developers and we can stop fighting the battle of trying
> to make one site useful for everyone.
>
> Does this make sense to others? Would people see this as a useful way
> to spend OpenID Foundation resources?
>
> Thanks,
> --David
>
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