Forgotten Where Your Username Is Registered?

When you sign up for a particular service, most of us will probably stick with our default username to prevent mistaken identity. But with the increasing number of Web 2.0 services everyday, we will try not to be left out and sign up for accounts with them. But of course we'll forget which sites we have sign up, then this when Usernamecheck comes in handy.

An AJAX-powered service, Usernamecheck pings your user name in close to 70 popular platforms such as Gmail, Digg, Twitter, Flickr, eBay and many more. If your user name is taken, it'll state that it's 'taken' in red, otherwise it'll be 'avaliable' in green.

You can play with this tool by punching in weird keywords in the user name textfield such as 'obama', 'beckham' to check whether a particular user name is taken for the web services avaliable.


Words from the webmaster of Usernamecheck:

"This site is a quick and dirty solution to a question that I often lay awake at night worrying about. Do I have my username registered across every site that I should? What if the next internet humiliation meme just happens to share the username I've been using for years, and suddenly people are emailing me asking "hey, is this you ???". The site is simple. I have a stack of web app urls, the application pings the site using the username you want to check, if it returns a "no user name" error we return 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)."