Charles Nouÿrit

A new venture is born

After almost 2 years of really hard work, 8 months of private alpha testing, an amazing amount of problems solved and bugs corrected… we are incredibly proud to anounce that today the new venture MyID.is Certified is born.

We are officially openned in public beta!!!
http://myid.is

As of today, you’ll be able to certify your digital identity worldwide, claim and badge your blog, and of course use your profile url as a certified OpenID.
This is still a Beta, so it means that a glitch may occur sometimes, so be kind with us, let us know and we’ll trying to fix it asap.

The next feature that’ll come is the possibility to claim your Facebook profile, and we’ll be doing our best to provide more and more features.

What is MyID.is Certified?

MyID.is trying to answer a simple question, how can we provide our users a digital ID that have been certified with the same level of trust as if we met in real life with a valid ID delivered by a governement administration but without the need to actually meet in real life?

By certifying your ID you’ll be able to certify all of your online presence, such as your blogs, your Facebook, LinkedIn profiles…, your comments,… and any kind of online presence that is part of your Identity 2.0.

Why get your Digital ID Certified?

- How do you know that you really are interacting with the right person, on this e-commerce, dating, blog or any kind of website? Get your ID Certified by MyID.is and gain instant trust.

- How can you proove that this comment, content, profil, blog,… is really yours? Get your ID Certified and start badging your content.

- MyID.is also an OpenID provider, but a certified OpenID provider as we have previously certifed the Microformats embeded in your OpenID that’ll look like that: http://myid.is/yourname

- With all of this web2.0 site around, with different log&pass for each of them, what a hassle to remember all of them. At MyID.is we thought about a 1-click-loggin system to get full access to all of your web2.0 site through your MyID.is page in 1-click.

I will not go into the numerous details of the complete certification process but only the part where you are involved.

This certification process is working worlwide, but in some specific case, some banks are not yet compatible and we need you to know exactly wich ones of them in order to fix it.

So here’s how it’s working:

1. First of all remember that we are still in Beta, testing our certification process worldwide and by signing in you’ll be able to certify your digital ID, claim and badge your blog/website and use your certified OpenID url.
2. You’ll be asked to provide your real name and a valid credit card at your personal name.*
3. You’ll need to log on to your bank statement and retrieve the random amount between €2 and €5 that we charged you and then log back on MyID.is to fill it in.**
4. Provide your valid and personal postal address because we’ll send you the last step of your certification process. And then wait for the postman.
5. Follow the instruction on the paper mail and then you’re done.

*Why do you need to pay, might be your first question?

For two simple reasons, using your credit card allows us to make the first check on your ID and the one you provided to your bank, and by retrieving the random amount billed we check that’s really your card you gave us in the first time. And then the certification process has a setup fee. But more than that we’ll never ask you again to pay for your certified ID.

And your second question might be about your credit card information?

DON’T WORRY WE DO NOT KEEP ANY INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR CREDIT CARD OR YOUR BANKING INFORMATION.

We use a third party for billing your card. Our billing partner is processing over a billion of transactions per month. They are also supporting AVS/CV2 and 3-D Secure together with traditional rules-based screening.

**Note for users from outside the EURO zone:

You’ll be asked to find on your bank statement a random amount between €2 and €5 in order to complete the first step of your certification process, this amount will appears in your transaction label on your bank statement. It’ll start with MYID.IS.

The Amount you need to find is the one in EUROS not the one in your local money!