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by wolrah 35 days ago
> But all that only makes sense if you own a domain name.

I have a hard time believing the venn diagram of "has a need for an auth provider" and "has at least one domain name" isn't just a a small circle almost entirely inside a large one, and the sliver on the outside is not for any reason other than stubborn refusal.

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Sorry, you’ve lost me. Which one is the small circle?

My point was basically: OpenID 1 tried to let people log into websites using domain names. This is still possible to implement (and easier than OpenID, IMO), but people just don’t want to bother with domains.