Why does it always say, "Username already taken" on certain websites??

I remember years ago trying to set up a fantasy baseball league on yahoo, and I tried to create an account. I tried, casheasy, and it said already taken. So I said, "ok," and tried casheasy 123, and again, yahoo said it was already taken. So I tried casheasyhgs445, and it said, "already taken." That's when I said Bullshit!!!! and waited a few days and eventually, casheasy was ok.

Now, my girlfriend is trying to create an account on another website, and she's tried donasensie, dodosendodosensie, donadona17438, dodasendonadodo, donadumdum, and about 6 other account names, and it always says, username alreadsy taken. BULLSHIT! No way somebody took those goofy names.

Why do certain websites always say, no matter what you type in, that the username already exists, when there's no way in the world it does?

Does anybody else run into this? I laughed when my bitch first told me this, until I remembered my yahoo experience. I looked into it and she is using a new email and everything, so there's no issue of the website making a mistake there. They just say "username already taken" no matter you type in.

the suggestions are such bullshit too. 

I want to be: Gunners

That name is already taken

How about one of the following available names?:

Gunners64518190346743289

GunGunnersGun77765142$$1!211732190

@wallstreetcappers

 by the way this post was a very long time ago, and i already took that display name a while ago. 

@Lovethatbaby

You had the same issue I did, wagerline names superceeded Covers names back 13 years ago on the merger. My Covers name was made after my wagerline one (I joined Covers slightly after wagerline) but when the merge came the wagerline name is what carried over. My other name was extremely similar so I didnt really care that it got mowed under and that this one carried forward.

Your LTB name was Covers and you had casheasy on wagerline, thats how I knew it was you anyway because we knew each other from both sites. But why bump a 13 year old thread when I addressed the topic back then? Your casheasy is here and works fine, the LTB (bubby not baby) was nixed when the merge happened.

@wallstreetcappers

 happened to me as well....wagerline merger didn't go so well with usernames....some of us are just OG here....it is what it is...

@ABooksNightmare

 Its been a long time ago but it worked out ok!