You may be aware that MyOpenID is shutting down in February 2014.

The next best thing to use IMO, is Google’s OpenID, since they have 2-factor authentication. Google doesn’t really expose the OpenID URL in a way that makes it as easy to use as “username.myopenid.com.” Fortunately, it’s relatively simple to add to a custom domain hosted by, for example, GitHub pages. My coworker, Stephen Delano, pointed me to this pro-tip.

The requirement is to put a <link> tag in the HTML header of the site. It should look like this:

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<link rel="openid2.provider" href="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud?source=profiles" />
<link rel="openid2.local_id" href="http://www.google.com/profiles/A_UNIQUE_GOOGLE_PROFILE_ID />

Obviously you need a Google Profile, but anyone interested in doing this probably has a Google+ account for Google Hangouts anyway :).

If you’re like me and have your custom domain hosted as an Octopress blog, this goes in source/_includes/custom/head.html. Then deploy the site and in a few moments you’ll be able to start using your site as an OpenID.