I hate registering for a web site account. Hate hate hate. Red-hot-fire-of-a-thousand-suns-style hate. So, when I came across Sam’s post, I jumped all over it. I’ve owned my own domain for years. Years and years and years. It made total sense: My domain is the headquarters for the online me.

At first, I began writing this as a blog post, but everything I was writing is already handled in Sam’s how-to. I can’t add anything to it, other than to cajole you into claiming your own OpenID if you manage your own domain, and if you don’t, maybe it’s time to get one.

FWIW: You can do this on any web page where you have control over the HTML. It can be Wordpress, Tumblr, Livejournal, whatever. As long as you can add a <link> tag to the header of the HTML of a page, that URL can be your OpenID