Emailtoid is a simple mapping service that enables the use
of email addresses as OpenID identifiers.
Background
One of the criticisms of OpenID's usability is the reliance on URLs
for identifiers since people seem more comfortable identifying
themselves by their email address. To remedy this problem, emailtoid
was established to offer a simple but robust means for turning email
addresses into fully qualified OpenID URLs.
Once an account has been created on Emailtoid associating an email
addresses with an existing OpenID (AOL, WordPress, etc), supporting
relying parties can accept email addresses as identifiers without
needing to ask for passwords.
For Email Providers
Emailtoid is intended as a temporary solution to a usability problem
in OpenID. If you run an email service and wish to resolve OpenIDs on
behalf of your members, we have designed Emailtoid to always defer to
email providers first, and then to fallback to our local resolution
service if the email provider does not support email-to-OpenID
resolution.
