Simon Willison’s Weblog

30th September 2007 - Link Blog

Email addresses your OpenID via DNS. Sam Ruby has warmed to the idea of making e-mail addresses usable as OpenIDs via a DNS SRV record.

Posted 30th September 2007 at 9:36 pm

Recent articles

Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments - 21st March 2026
Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty - 19th March 2026
GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano, which can describe 76,000 photos for $52 - 17th March 2026

This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 30th September 2007.

dns 31 email 35 openid 213 sam-ruby 24 srv 1

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe