UserNameCheck.com – is your favourite username available?

November 13, 2008 by Abhishek Bhardwaj
Filed under: Internet Industry, Startup Review 

I found a useful website today – UserNameCheck.com, it lets you check if your favourite username is available across popular websites. If you are that kind of a person who loves to retain his username or login ID across all websites then this is one such service you should be using. The site’s functionality has been developed using Dojo as it does all the checks using Ajax and it only takes a few seconds for every website to retrieve the availability status.

Book your most desired username on popular websites today. Even if you don’t use some of them you might want to use them in future. And trust me, then you won’t want to see “this username is already taken“.

UserNameCheck supports an availability check for around 70 popular websites. Some of them are really worth having your username on:

I wish they could have more features like a Username Popularity Meter and a Username Storage. Also, if they could release widgets or an API for other third party websites/blogs to use their service.

The website is a great utility but I don’t quite get their business model. How will they turn this into a minting machine? I don’t think they’ve even thought about it till now!

I’ll get in touch with these guys for a vivid insight into their game plan.

Until then enjoy this curry as you surf aroud checking your username availability.

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2 Responses to “UserNameCheck.com – is your favourite username available?”

  1. Que on November 17th, 2008 11:05 pm

    It’s a super cool tool.
    Though, I agree I don’t know how they would make money.
    They could (if they become very popular) charge nominal amount for providing you with such service in one go.
    Or maybe if charge for booking. The search is free. A fee for booking username across various site in one shot!
    That would be great if possible.!!!

  2. Abhishek Bhardwaj on November 18th, 2008 9:53 pm

    I don’t really think they should charge money for the search or even booking the username because that would be black marketing.

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