Home | MyID.is a Digital Identity Certification Platform

MyID.is have been nominated for the Techcrunch event - The Europas, in the category Best Enterprise / B2B Startup (EMEA), we are really prood of this nomination and we will need your help to reach the Top 5 and go get our prize on July 9th in London.

So please vote for us before July 2nd and spread the news to your friends. Thank you!

… since we launched the public version of MyID.is Certified, it’s amazing how time flies when you’re really buzy.

The launch was just amazing regarding the cover and the warm welcome received by the community.
We hit TechCrunch US homepage the day after the launch with a great article written by Robin Wauters

This article have been so re-twitted that we actually did reach the Top10 of the most interesting subjet twitted about for more than 3h, this was an amazing sensation and offers us the opportunity to be put on the front line of the Digital ID theme, with so many bloggers posting about our launch.

And then 2 day after it’s Ars Technica’s turn to make an amazing article about our company and our goals

We’re still working hard to fix the little bugs discovered with the launch, mainly banks interconnection problems so we didn’t had the time yet to develop new service but it’s on our top prority ToDo list.

We had as of today sucessfully certified users in more than 30 countries around the world, such as most of European countries, USA, Canada, but also in China, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Brazil, India, Lebanon… and the list is growing days after days.

Our CEO had also been selected as a speaker during the last Webcom2009 in Montreal which main subject was Digital Identity. Here’s an interview in french during the conference.

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!!!

If you’re attending the CeBIT 2009 Exhibition in Hannover this year, we will be speaking in a discussion panel about “Identity Management” with Brian Suda, Sebastian Küppers, and Thomas Reiter, so if digital identity is a subject that you’re interested in, come and join us on march 3rd at 12:40.

“In einer Welt der digitalen Vernetzung ist die bewusste Anonymität bzw. der bewusste Umgang mit Teilen der eigenen Identität eine kritische Aktivität - sowohl für die Privatperson im Sinne des Reputation Managements als auch für die Unternehmen. Im Panel “Identiy Management” diskutieren Experten über Standards, Technologien und Dienste.”

MyID.is Certified is about to release its public Bêta version in a couple of days!

We are now looking for several independant, organized and well motivated part-time Business developpers.

Their role will be to establish partnership with web2.0 websites in their countries in order to offer our partners the possibility to certify their members’ profiles, improve trustability among their users and qualify their database.

They will be home based and the remuneration will be commision-based on the numbers of new users their deal will grant to MyID.is.

Interested to be part of the next web2.0 breakthrough venture?
Send your resume to Charles Nouÿrit (charles (at) myid (dot) is) with a motivation letter.

MyID.is Certified have been selected to the Startup Competion at LeWeb08, here’s the video of it.

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 government 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.

MyID.is Certified is a trust third-party label, which aim to add trust among Internet users.

Why getting 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 prove that this comment, content, profile, 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 certified the Microformats embedded in your OpenID that’ll look like that: http://myid.is/yourname

- With all of those 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!

If you have any problem with our certification process, please contact us at: support (at) myid (dot) is

Yes this is official we have sent the invitation to the pre-registred users.

You should have received a personal code to join MyID.is and get your Digital Identity certified.

Today you’ll be able to certify your ID, claim and add a badge to your blog or your website and use the certified OpenID url we are providing you.

More features will come really soon.

We are thrilled and waiting for your feedback!!

Despite all the critics, but that means it’s been successfull, we’ve been really happy of the amazing return we had from our presentation at LeWeb08 Startup presentation.

The room was packed and we’d like to thank all of your friends thats show love and interest for our digital ID certification project.

We were against 30 other companies, some of them where really improving, and we’re a bit sad that the winners where not anymore startups but success stories… And we have a special thought to Silentale that won the public award with a great and beautiful presentation, which was deserved.

The presentation criteria were a bit hard, but it’s part of the game for an entrepreneur to be able to summaries his project in a few words:
This is probably one of the most important parts of this email as it outlines precisely what’s expected of your presentation on stage at LeWeb 2008. Failure to address any of these areas sufficiently will impact your score.

With that, each company will be judged on the following:

• Physical presentation - if you use slides, you may show ONLY 5-7 slides. If you show more slides than 7 it will impact your score.

• A demo - all companies are told to show a demo. If you can’t (like product still in too early prototype) you must be prepared to explain why

• Business model - what is your business model?

• Market opportunity - does the business you propose have a viable market and how are you positioned well for it?

• The team - who’s on it and are they qualified?

• Presentation skills - This is the most subjective item as it relates to your general presentation abilities

Using these criteria the judges will rank the companies on a overall scale of 1 - 5

So if you missed our presentation, here’s the slides we made.

Thanks to Gemalto for invited us at a talk show to speak about digital security during the conference “Salon Cartes et Identification 2008” that happened November, 4-6 2008 at Villepinte.

You can see the talk show that have been recorded (french):