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by SCdF 4666 days ago
Crap.

So I have used MyOpenID for years, ever since SO forced me to use it. In every situation where openId was an option I've used it in deference to connecting a google/fb account or creating a new user/pass. I have used it for countless websites. Literally countless. As in, I have used it everywhere and I haven't written down where I've used it, because if I go to log in and I see it supports openid I know that I used myopenid.

I also don't know much about the technical aspects of openID (though it sure sounds like an upskilling is about to be forced on me).

I have my own domain, and I'm happy to run openid through that, and I'm sure 10 minutes of google's time will make that setup plain.

What's not plain is how I migrate from myopenid to my own openid provider? Everything I've signed up with is attached to my xxx.myopenid.com url correct? So do I get to keep that URL somehow and point it to an implementation elsewhere? Or does every website that uses openid have to support migrating between openid urls?

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Unless you setup delegation to your own domain, then yeah, you're probably signed up using your xxx.myopenid.com URL. This is the main reason I used delegation.

You should at least be able to get a list of sites you've logged in at https://www.myopenid.com/sites

Awesome, so I have about 30^, which is less than I thought, but more than I'd hoped.

I guess I have half a year to migrate them all :-/

^Though actually far more like slightly over a dozen once you get rid of all the stack exchange duplicates