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Usernamecheck: check availability of a username in many websites at once

February 3, 2009 By 12 Comments

Usernamecheck is a free web service that checks the availability of your desired user name across more than 60+ sites (webmail services, social networking, video and music sharing, etc).

[Editor’s note: this review was written by reader Gaurav Paul with subsequent editing by the webmaster].

Although most of us have a username that we particularly like that ideally we would want to use across the board for all web services and websites that we use, we have all had the experience where our preferred name was already taken. The Usernamecheck service can check your username across a great many sites at once so you can either take quick action to register your name or otherwise help you find that distinct username that still works on all the services that you are interested in.

How to use: enter your desired username and the site will check for availability in (currently) 68 different and popular sites, including Gmail, Twitter, WordPress, Ebay, Yahoo, YouTube, MySpace, Stumbleupon, Delicious and many others. It will show you the username status as “available or taken”. (Facebook is notably absent).

Note that Usernamecheck doesn’t actually register available names for you; for that you will need to go to each site separately.

The verdict: a brilliant concept and overall a very good, well-designed site.

Go to the Usernamecheck site.


 
 
 
Gaurav

Gaurav

February 3, 2009
Gaurav
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  • Anonymous

    This site is awesome… its like a game to see if you can guess the most popular Username.

    So far, the most popular one I can find is Steve with only six available.

  • Jojo

    I suppose that there have been ways to do this prior to the availability of this program?

    This is a wonderful tool for spammers to seek out email addresses to spam for those systems that use the format email@servicename, such as gmail and yahoo. It may explain why I get so much spam on my gmail accounts.

    btw: You have to accept cookies for this app to work.

  • Carbonize

    @Anonymous – You can’t trust what this site says since Gmail will not allow you to use names for the account so whilst it says Steve is available you cannot actually use it.

    Personally I cannot see the point in this service.

  • Transcontinental

    Looks like the availability of a user name on a given Web site is a combination of the names originality and the site’s number of users.

    More generally speaking, trying to google a missing name – even invented, even nonsense – is not that easy :)

    “Hi, my name is Shroumtapouf, and euh… no one compares to me”. I wonder if “Shroumtapouf” is available…

  • Paul

    @jojo : Getting spam is no. 1 problem to all and actually you can’t believe all the sites you share your email with,starting with sites you don’t know much about in which you used your email or may be social networking or it could have been shared by one of your friend.randomizing names by a Spam mail sending client is not that hard at least for common popular names.So you can’t blame it alone (!)

    Just use it & have fun ! [:)]

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  • http://www.aircardsinfo.com alex

    It’s my first time here..this site is fantastic…
    great graphic, i hope to find something interesting
    about the world of wimax and wireless 3g

  • http://www.bauer-power.net El Di Pablo

    Very handy tool! I hate having to think of new usernames. I try to keep everything consistant. Thanks for the tip.

    -EDP

  • Brad

    Site is GONE

  • admin

    Site will be live again very soon !!

  • http://www.itcn.com Barry Wise

    This site is gone now but we have created a bigger, better version in its place: http://checkusernames.com

  • Paul

    @Barry

    Thanks ! Great job… i checked it…

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