usernamecheck.com

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Last update: Nov 20, 2009

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.
via: Usernamecheck

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Traffic Stats
Traffic Rank
Alexa Traffic Rank for usernamecheck.com
1 month avg. 3 month avg. 3 month change
92983 73204
 27301
Reach
Percent of global internet users visiting usernamecheck.com
1 month avg. 3 month avg. 3 month change
0.0015% 0.0021%
 15%
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February 2009

Ranking out of the top one million most visited sites on the Internet: 66,686 – Unique Visitors (US): 26,326

Top Countries
  Country % User % Pageviews Rank in country
USA
51.0%   49.6%   36352  
India
11.0%   12.1%   53434  
United Kingdom
6.6%   6.8%   47096  
Germany
5.8%   6.2%   108708  
China
3.0%   2.6%   167458  
more...
Top Subdomains
  Subdomains % Pageviews Pageviews per user
  usernamecheck.com 100.0%   1.2  
Page Views
Number of unique pages viewed per user per day
1 month avg. 3 month avg. 3 month change
1.59 1.18
 12%
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mruffi: @cosguru I dont believe usernamecheck.com works any longer #BDsocial
Gabriel Gama: @pdroe http://usernamecheck.com/
Ben Kessler: It's a shame usernamecheck.com is gone. That was a great service.
David Binkowski: so, was usernamecheck.com the biggest scam ever or what? the site's gone and has been replaced with a google adsense farm.
Acclimedia|Gennefer: @fogfish No, I was explaining to her how to use Twitter search to monitor your handle. I prefer www.usernamecheck.com for un across the web.

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Ben Kessler - Twitter
It's a shame usernamecheck.com is gone. That was a great service.
so, was usernamecheck.com the biggest scam ever or what? the site's gone and has been replaced with a google adsense farm.
If you were bummed that "UserNameCheck.com" went bust,...try this alternative for checking on username availability: http://budurl.com/qv8m
Yato Yoshida - Twitter
@chrispirillo hey chris. curious. do you happen to know what happened to usernamecheck.com? looks like it's gone..
Craig McGill - Twitter
@JessBerlin Sometimes the PR agency is the inhouse as clients have no inhouse PR staff usernamecheck.com #pr2

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Technical Data
Registrant

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Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: USERNAMECHECK.COM

Domain servers in listed order

CPNS01.SECURESERVER.NET
CPNS02.SECURESERVER.NET


For complete domain details go to:
http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=USERNAMECHECK.COM

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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
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