| Website | usernamecheck.com |
| Category | Consumer Web |
| Employees | 2 |
| Founded | 2008 |
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
