Find Any Neocities Username with WhatsMyName App
Neocities exists to bring back the hand-built personal homepage, and it has worked: more than 1.6 million sites are hosted there. Those sites are personal in a way that profiles on commercial platforms are not, which makes a Neocities handle a distinctive thing to find in a scan. WhatsMyName App checks one alongside 731 other platforms in a single search.
Platform: Web hosting, personal sites · More than 1.6 million hosted sites
Search Neocities Username FreeWhat Is Neocities and Why Username Searches Matter
Kyle Drake launched Neocities in 2013 with the explicit aim of reviving the free web hosting that disappeared when GeoCities closed. It gives every account a site at username.neocities.org with a gigabyte of storage and a generous bandwidth allowance, and deliberately supports no server-side scripting. You write HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and that is the whole product.
The constraint is the point. Because there is no template and no feed, every Neocities site is built by hand, and the result is a community that looks like the personal web of twenty five years ago rather than a social platform. Guestbooks, webrings, shrines to particular interests and long unstructured about pages are all normal here.
That makes these sites unusually revealing compared with a profile on a commercial platform. A profile is a form somebody filled in. A hand-built homepage is a place somebody chose what to say, and personal sites tend to include the things their author actually cares about, often at length, along with links out to every other account they hold.
How Neocities Usernames Work
The handle determines both the site address at username.neocities.org and the profile at neocities.org/site/username. The profile page shows the site's stats, its followers and the other sites it follows, which makes the community graph visible in a way most hosting does not.
Because a Neocities site is a personal homepage rather than a profile, the linking behaviour is different. Personal sites almost always link out, to a Bluesky account, an itch.io page, a Tumblr, an email address. That makes a confirmed result here one of the better single sources for finding somebody's other accounts, since they listed them deliberately.
Handle reuse is high, and the culture rewards it. People building a personal site under a handle usually want that handle to be findable, which is close to the opposite of the pseudonymity culture on some other platforms. The same string typically resolves on the indie-web adjacent services rather than the large commercial ones.
- Site address format: username.neocities.org
- Profile URL format: neocities.org/site/username
- Profiles show followers and the sites an account follows
- No server-side scripting, so sites are hand-written HTML and CSS
- Personal sites usually link out to the author's other accounts
How to Search a Neocities Username with WhatsMyName App
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Go to WhatsMyName App
Open whatsmynameapp.us in any browser. No account needed.
Take the handle
Use the part before .neocities.org, or the segment after /site/ on a profile page.
Run the search
Type it into the search bar and click Search. All 732 platforms are checked in parallel, including Neocities.
Find the Neocities result
Results stream in as each check completes. Look for the Neocities entry showing confirmed or not found.
Open the site itself
A confirmed result leads to a hand-built homepage. Read the about page and the links section, which usually name the author's other accounts directly.
Follow the outbound links
Personal sites list their author's other accounts deliberately. Those links are often more useful than the rest of the scan combined.
Check the adjacent cluster
Look at the GitHub, Linktree and About.me results in the same scan for the same handle.
What WhatsMyName App Shows for Neocities
A confirmed result links to the profile, and from there to the site. Expect a homepage rather than a form: an about page, an interests section, often a guestbook and a links page. The followers and following lists on the profile also show the account's place in the community.
A not-found result means no site holds that handle. Because Neocities sites are personal projects rather than accounts people are pushed to create, absence here is entirely unremarkable and says nothing about the person.
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Open WhatsMyName AppAfter Finding a Neocities Account
The practical value of a Neocities result is the outbound links. On commercial platforms you infer connections between accounts. On a personal homepage the author usually lists them, because the entire point of the site is to be a home base that points at everything else they do.
Read the site as a document rather than a profile. Hand-built pages carry writing that a profile field would never accommodate, and people write about themselves at length when there is no character limit and no audience metric. That is more informative and also more personal, which is worth bearing in mind.
If it is your own site, remember that the about page you wrote when you set it up is probably still there. Personal sites get built enthusiastically and updated rarely, so the version of yourself described on it may be several years out of date and more detailed than you would now choose.
- Outbound links are usually the highest value part of a result
- Read it as a document, not a profile form
- Absence here means nothing, these are optional projects
- Your own about page is probably older than you think
Related Platform Searches
WhatsMyName App checks these platforms alongside Neocities in a single search. Explore the guides below or browse all OSINT tools available on this site.
Many Neocities authors keep their site source or other projects on GitHub under the same handle.
The commercial equivalent of a links page, and people often maintain both pointing at the same accounts.
Another single-page personal identity service where the same handle and the same outbound links tend to appear.
People who reuse a handle on Neocities tend to reuse it on these too:
Every platform guide on this site is listed on the WhatsMyName App guide.
Frequently Asked Questions about Neocities Username Search
What is Neocities?
A free static web host launched in 2013 by Kyle Drake to revive the personal homepage after GeoCities closed. It hosts more than 1.6 million sites and deliberately supports no server-side scripting.
How do I find someone's Neocities site?
Search the handle in WhatsMyName App. A confirmed result links to the profile at neocities.org/site/handle, and the site itself lives at handle.neocities.org.
Why are Neocities sites more revealing than profiles?
Because they are hand-built rather than filled in. There are no fields and no character limits, so people write about themselves at length and usually link out to every other account they hold.
What does a Neocities profile page show?
The site's stats, its followers and the other sites it follows, which makes the community graph around an account visible.
Does a not-found result mean anything?
No. A Neocities site is an optional personal project rather than an account people are prompted to create, so absence is completely unremarkable.
Is checking a Neocities site legal?
I built a Neocities site years ago, what should I check?
The about page. Personal sites are built enthusiastically and updated rarely, so it likely still describes a version of you from several years ago in more detail than you would now choose.
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