Either one should be fine. As long as you're consistent, uses get used to it either way.

From a technology standpoint, creating wildcard DNS (which is normally used for subdomain hosting like this) can create duplicate content of the main domain, so it has some issues there. If you go that route, make sure that any non-used usernames redirect using a 301 to the main domain.

Brian.

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