Search the web for email addresses
This search tool will uncover email addresses from all over the web according to the domain you enter
Enter an URL (without the WWW).
Example: ibm.com:
This tool will help you identify a company's email protocol, which will enable you to 'spoof' email addresses and hopefully find the person you are seeking. (As described here.)
Tip: If there are a lot of pages, search towards the end of the results!
This tool will not only enable you to find how an email address is set up at a given company, but you can also search for a person at that company! You will usually find dozens of email addresses at the company you seek.
Not only that, but this tool uncovers 'hidden' email addresses, like when people put their address like this: john.smith(at)uranus.com
:-)
Email Address Spoofing
How to 'guess' at email addresses
You probably already do this if you are a professional headhunter or find people on a regular basis.
Most email administrators use very similar methodology, especially in big companies. For a person whose name is "John Smith", if you find that he is working for let's say, "The Uranus Corporation", you can try a few of the most popular methods that companies use for email. First, you need to find the URL for his company, say, in this case, it is uranus.com.
Send an email to the addresses as follows:
- john.smith@bigcompany.com
- jsmith@bigcompany.com
- j.smith@bigcompany.com
- john_smith@bigcompany.com
If you want to check and see how his company in fact does structure their email IDs and/or aliases, you can try our custom search engine below. It will "sniff" and extract emails from the internet (free!).
When you go through the results page, you will most likely see a number of emails sent from this domain. So now, if you see doe_jane@bigcompany.com, then you can be fairly certain that John Smith's email address will be smith_john@bigcompany.com.