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Have you cheated on a spouse or significant other?

If the answer is yes, you may be more exposed than you think, thanks to a website which publicly displays alleged cheaters from all across the U.S.

The website is called Cheaterville.com, named after the popular Internet games Farmville and Cityville.

Cheaterville.com was set up so users can publicly label others as cheaters as a 'warning sign' for others who are thinking of dating or may already be in a relationship with the alleged cheaters.

Cheaterville.com founder and CEO James McGibney said he got the idea while serving overseas.

"I was in the Marine Corps overseas, and while I was there one of the other guys I knew well, his wife was screwing around," McGibney said. "And I thought, 'wouldn't it be cool if there was a site where you could see that?'"

And so Cheaterville.com was born.

McGibney said it took him about four months to build the site, which launched on Valentine's Day of 2011.

"We get millions of hits every week now," McGibney said. "It's unbelievable how it has taken off."

McGibney said the site is the only one of its kind in that it allows users to see if someone they are interested in has cheated in the past. McGibney's goal is to promote fidelity and loyalty by making people aware that there is a service that will expose cheaters.

"What we've actually found is we can see where people are coming in from, and a lot of people are coming in from other dating sites like eHarmony and Match.com," McGibney said.

McGibney said the significant point about that is, he said, people are lying on their eHarmony and Match.com profiles, listing themselves as single when they're really married. He said his site is also useful because people can now check to see the validity of the statuses on other dating sites to see if the person in question is indeed faithful.

So what's to stop someone from lying on their Cheaterville.com post about someone else? What's to stop a disgruntled ex-boyfriend from posting her ex-girlfriend as a cheater even if she never cheated?

"Nothing," McGibney said. "But we hope that's not the posts we get. We don't think it is."

Even if that's the case, McGibney has set up yet another site feature that may counteract a faulty post. If the poster posts something that isn't true, the person accused can reply to the post and say it isn't true.

"We can also remove posts if, let's say, the cheater apologizes, and the poster accepts the apology, and the two agree the post doesn't need to be on the site anymore," McGibney said.

One Colorado Springs resident who wished to remain anonymous said she would use Cheaterville.com but didn't know about.

"Yea, I think so," she said. "I've been cheated on, it's not fun. I've lost a lot of trust in myself to find someone I can trust. That sounds like a good resource, I hope it's working for people who have been through what I've been through."

But not everyone agreed.  Another Colorado Springs resident said she sees problems with the site.

"I would have to look at it, but it sounds like it can lead to a lot of Internet abuse, lots of lying," Mary said. "I don't think I could trust an Internet post, I'd have to find out for myself."

Mary requested her last name not be used but said she has never been cheated on.

In Colorado, divorce rates are the highest they have ever been. According to the Rocky Mountain Family Council, there are about 96 marriages and 56 divorces in Colorado every year. The study did not specify how many of the divorces ended as a result of cheating.

In a recent article from the Colorado Springs Gazette, nearly two thirds of adults said they considered Internet sex to be cheating. The article cited an ABC News poll in which 64 percent of people said "if a person who's married or in a committed relationship has sex talk in an Internet chat room," they would consider that being unfaithful.

With Cheaterville.com blowing up over the past four months, McGibney has been able to turn a profit.

"We actually do get top-of-the-line advertisers, we're doing well," McGibney said. "We are absolutely making money."

McGibney has a staff of 23 people but entered without any debt thanks to his networking and computer programming background from his college days, which allowed him to build the site himself.

A feature that is not yet available is the Cheater Map, where users can see which states, counties and cities have the highest concentration of cheaters.

"That's coming soon," McGibney said. "We wanted to get a solid number of posts before we launched that so we could get a decent sample size."

As of now, Cheaterville.com has more than 10,000 labeled cheaters, and McGibney said the map could be launching soon.

So what's next for McGibney?

He will soon be launching CupidVille.com, a matchmaking site that only users who are not listed on Cheaterville.com can access. It will be the first dating site to be tied in with cheaters, according to McGibney. The site will cross-list all users with the cheaters posted on Cheaterville.com as a way to help ensure fidelity.

McGibney doesn't have a start date for Cupidville.com yet but said he was hoping to launch in early July.