<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffffcc;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/29091950-f2d9-49e9-bdca-cc8066e24252/0ADC5C27-9DE8-42C6-A309-89E8DA85FF15/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dready.org/blog/2006/07/10/whats-in-an-i-name/" href="http://dready.org/blog/2006/07/10/whats-in-an-i-name/" style="font-size: 11px;">dready.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dready.org/blog/2006/07/10/whats-in-an-i-name/"><P> i-name <STRONG><CODE>=wil</CODE></STRONG>:</p> <P>The equal sign (=) denotes that I’m an individual. There is one other type of i-name that is relevant to most people, an organization, represented by the commercial at sign (@). The company that I work for has an i-name <CODE>@NeuStar</CODE>.</p> <P>The rest is just a name that you pick for yourself. Other than the fact that you can’t have spaces and punctuations other than period (.) and hyphen (-), pretty much anything goes.</p> <P>By now, you’re probably burning with questions. The first of which I will answer “What can I do with an i-name?”</p> <P>At the present, there are 3 services: contact, forwarding, and single sign-on. </p> <P>The contact service is like a secretary who screens your caller, takes down the message and forward to you.</p> <P>The forwarding service allows you to create links to web addresses that are either too complicated or may change in the future.</p> <P>The single sign-on service allows you to use your i-name to log in to any web site or service that supports it.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/0ADC5C27-9DE8-42C6-A309-89E8DA85FF15/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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