ThingsAmongMany

Oh, the horror! You know that sinking feeling. You go to sign up for that social site you’ve been putting off for a few weeks. You enter your username – the one you use everywhere – and, much to your dismay, some cheeky fool has already signed up with it?! So, in a horrified rush, you start going to every social site you can think of to register your name before this copycat can beat you to the punch. (Wait, you don’t? That’s just me…errr…I mean, of course you don’t! Who would??)

Well, now you don’t have to rack your brain quite so hard to figure out where your username is available. Instead, hop on UserNameCheck.com and just punch in the name that you’ve co-opted across the web. The site will ping 45 of the most popular social sites on the web and let you know if your username is available or not. Unfortunately, it can’t determine with of the taken sites are taken by you, but it can help you beat the copycats to the punch on the yet-to-be-taken sites.

If you can’t get it to work right away, check back a little later. Apparently they’re having some server load issues due to increased traffic (9 vists on monday and 23,000 on wednesday), but the check process does work. You can also follow them on Twitter if you want to keep up with their progress.

Hurry up, protect your secret identity!