Usernamecheck is a quick and dirty solution to the question: do I have my username registered across every site that I should? The site has a stack of web app urls, and the application pings the site using the username you want to check, if it returns a “no user name” error it returns that. The site uses Dojo as it does all the checks using Ajax (each check takes a couple of seconds so using Ajax you don’t have to sit and wait 3 minutes for the page to load)
In Feb 2009, upon hitting the 500,000 unique usernames checked, and after having over a million unique visitors, Jon Sykes took usernamecheck down, opened up the code in a post entitled “Behind the Curtain”. Later he sold the domain for an undisclosed sum.
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Peg Mulligan:@geneabloggers Thanks for passing along the http://www.usernamecheck.com/ link. Great way to help monitor accounts set up in one's name. Michael Marlatt:If you were bummed that "UserNameCheck.com" went bust,...try this alternative for checking on username availability: http://budurl.com/qv8m suffolksoftware:shame usernamecheck.com is no more, useful little site. will have to make my own :) goyato:@chrispirillo hey chris. curious. do you happen to know what happened to usernamecheck.com? looks like it's gone.. Andrea Decker:I stand corrected. (Thanks @rexbarrett) They actually don't have usernamecheck.com any more. They are selling it and have the page parked.
First 5 minutes on and trying to add apps that I use from the directory. And hooboy, the thought of going through 351 pages of apps makes me want to run for the hills. SUGGETION: Have people type in their email/typical username and then have the site ping each of those to see (cont..)
Company name:Usernamecheck Ranking:72,082 Famous in countries:USA, India, United Kingdom, Germany Employee Amount:2 Founded://2008 Tags:site-name, login-name, meme E-Mail:jon@sykes.com
Usernamecheck is a quick and dirty solution to the question: do I have my username registered across every site that I should? The site has a stack of web app urls, and the application pings the site using the username you want to check, if it returns a “no user name” error it returns that. The site uses Dojo as it does all the checks using Ajax (each check takes a couple of seconds so using Ajax you don’t have to sit and wait 3 minutes for the page to load)
In Feb 2009, upon hitting the 500,000 unique usernames checked, and after having over a million unique visitors, Jon Sykes took usernamecheck down, opened up the code in a post entitled “Behind the Curtain”. Later he sold the domain for an undisclosed sum.
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