I can’t remember when, but I do remember coming across a joke while surfing the web, joke that said the hardest thing our children will have to do is find a username that hasn’t been taken. I don’t know about that...I already have problems using the username I want because it has been taken.

NameChk is a handy web app and iOS app that checks multiple websites to see if the username I want is available. It checks Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and many other social networking and social bookmarking websites.

Say you have a small company and you want to promote your brand via various social channels. It is very important to have the same brand identity on all your social channels. This is where NameChk comes in handy. By visiting the NameChk website or by using the NameChk app for iOS, you can easily check to see if the username you want to use is available on all the social channels you intend to use to promote your brand.



Or let’s say you’re a regular person and you want to establish an online presence on multiple social channels. Again, it is important to have the same username on all your social networks. Thanks to NameChk, you can easily check to see if your preferred username or vanity URL is available on all the social networks you plan to use.



Namechk.com has been around for years. It was designed by David Gosse and Andy Edinborough. David Gosse is the CEO of Vortaloptics, a vertical search and local search engine development company. Andy Edinborough is the lead architect for Vortaloptics, a coder for social media, and the one who maintains namechk.com.

You can get started with the NameChk web app by following this link.
You can get the NameChk app for iOS from Apple’s App Store here.