SEARCH RESOURCES OF THE INTERNET

Find e-mail addresses on the Internet

Tasks, tools and ways to search for e-mail addresses

Main tasks:

• white-search e-mail address of a specific person;
• white-search e-mail address of a particular organization;
• White-search e-mail address in a particular organization;
• white-search e-mail addresses of the host;
• reverse white-subscriber search by e-mail address;
• yellow-search e-mail address of the organization.
• special case: search for e-mail addresses of educational institutions and their students;

Netfind reference service (available in on-line mode) and automatic address servers of the Whois type (available both on-line and by e-mail) are specifically designed to search for e-mail addresses of people, organizations and hosts. They fill their address bases also automatically, permanently and in mass order directly from the address bases of large network nodes (or looking directly into them), which contain a fairly complete set of records of their subscribers.

Basic search tools:

• Netfind automatic help service;
• automatic address server type Whois;
• other types of automatic address servers;
• reference systems Yellow pages, containing and e-mail addresses.

Additional search methods:

• special requests to the automatic servers of any mass service (newsgroups or mailing lists) or receiving a list of its subscribers by any other way;
• request to subscribers of any mass service;
• request to the staff of the network;
• request to the automatic address server or to the staff of any organization that provides public access to the addresses of its correspondents (customers, partners, etc.).

Netfind Help Desk

Netfind on one request produces a white-search in many address databases and other reference services. To use this service, you need to have a Netfind client program on your computer; if it is not available, you can use telnet (logname "netfind") on any of the Netfind servers in the world:

archie.au bruno.cs.colorado.edu dino.conicit.ve

ds.internic.net lincoln.technet.sg macs.ee.mcgill.ca

malloco.ing.puc.cl monolith.cc.ic.ac.uk mudhoney.micro.umn.edu

netfind.oc.com netfind.vslib.cz nic.nm.kr

nic.uakom.sk redmont.cis.uab.edu

In addition, Netfind is also available via WWW servers:

http://www.internic.net

http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links

Whois server

Whois servers perform white searches in large databases of addresses for large nodes or entire networks. The work with the whois server occurs according to certain rules (whois protocol), therefore it is desirable to use a special client program (whois client). In UNIX, such a program is called: whois, it can be set to the address of any of the whois servers to search on it. Whois servers are also available via telnet.

http://www.internic.net

telnet: //nic.ddn.mil mailto: service@nic.ddn.mil HELP

telnet: //rs.internic.net mailto: mailserv@internic.net HELP

telnet: //whois.internic.net

The "main" whois server of the Internet, containing the addresses of people and nodes.

telnet: //whois.ripe.net

Whois search for e-mail addresses, telephone directories.

http://galaxy.einet.net/hytelnet/DIR000.html

Whois, Dectory Services.

ftp://sipb.mit.edu/pub/whois/whois-servers.list

ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/whois/whois-servers.list

List of famous whois servers.

http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/whois.pl

"Reverse" Whois-search for an organization by its domain (part of the e-mail address).

Reverse search by e-mail address (Finger)

Finger Search Service allows you to find a specific person at his full e-mail address. You can use it while you are on the UNIX operating system and look for subscribers on other UNIX machines (since the Internet consists of them). Finger can show the registration name of the subscriber on the remote machine (login name), some important data about him if he specified them (the name of the organization or department where he works and his phone), as well as the time he last read his email (you can determine if he still uses his e-mail address). Many UNIX machines have a finger server that accepts requests not only for specific e-mail addresses, but also allows you to do various searches among your users.

http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/finger.pl

X.500 Helpdesk

The X.500 global helpdesk combines local reference services that look like one large hierarchical reference. Access requires a special program (local X.500 client), but if it is not there, you can use any of the publicly available remote X.500 clients in the world that can be reached via telnet, through some Gopher and WWW servers, and even via e-mail:

http://www.dante.net:8888/

telnet: //ashe.cs.tcd.de de Germany

telnet: //chico.rediris.es directorio Spain

telnet: //dir.ulcc.ac.uk dua England

telnet: //elcl.mat.torun.edu.pl de Poland

telnet: //elem4.vub.ac.be dua Belgium

telnet: //hypatia.umdc.umu.se de Sweden

telnet: //jethro.ucc.su.oz.au fred Australia

telnet: //jolly.nis.garr.it de Italy

telnet: //login.dkuug.dk ds Denmark

telnet: //nic.funet.fi dua Finland

telnet: //nic.switch.ch dua Switzerland

telnet: //paradise.ulcc.ac.uk dua England (project Paradise)

telnet: //x500.denet.dk de Denmark

telnet: //x500.ieunet.ie de Ireland

telnet: //x500.tu-chemnitz.de x500 Germany

telnet: //zoek.nic.surfnet.nl zoek Netherlands

mailto: Directory@uninett.no HELP

Other automatic address servers and services

telnet: //regulus.cs.bucknell.edu 185

Knowbot Information Service.

mail-to: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu HELP

The server allows you to find the addresses of people who sent messages to the USENET conference.

http://okra.ucr.edu/okra/

"OKRA: net.citizen Directory Service" is one of the largest "white pages" servers on the network with 5.3 million e-mail addresses. The search can occur by e-mail address, name, organization, and host name.

http://www.benoit.com/jean/find.html

Jean's People-Finding Internet Resources.

http://www.curtin.edu.au/search/people.html

Search for people on the Internet.

http://sunsite.unc.edu:80/~masha/

Search for e-mail addresses of people.
http://www.law.flinders.edu.au/othsites.htm

Search for people and geographic points.

mailto: who_is_who@kiae.su HELP

The address server of the kiae node. Contains addresses from the base of the kiae node.

mailto: ais@relarn.net.kiae.su HELP

Address server RosNIIROS.

mailto: intermap@botik.ru HELP

Intermap server. Accumulates addresses from the letters and announcements passing through it.

mailto: botik@cs.kiev.ua HELP

New Botik Server. Accumulates addresses from the letters and announcements passing through it.

gopher: //rain.psg.com: 70 / 1m / networks / connect / countries / ao

Inquiries about various networks in the world.

Yellow Pages Systems

Yellow Pages usually use classifications by occupation, by output and services rendered, by geography. Sometimes they are supplemented by a white search (just alphabetically).

http://www.four11.com

The search engine is a cross between the Yellow and White Pages (White Pages calls itself). It searches for people not only by its own name, but also by country, city, state, domain, hobby. On the server, you can leave information about yourself.

http://www.lookup.com
http://s19.bigyellow.com

http://www.whowhere.com
http://superpages.gte.com

http://sunsite.oit.unc.edu/~masha
http://www.yellownet.com

http://okra.ucr.edu/okra
http://www.yellow.com

http://www.ibdi.com
http://comfind.com

http://www.bigbook.com
http://www.bizweb.com

http://www.mcp.com/nrp/wwwyp

Requests to newsgroup servers and mailing lists

Mass services such as teleconferencing systems or mailing lists usually have free access to their subscriber lists.

mailto: news@kiae.su USTAT

mailto: news@demos.su USTAT

News servers that distribute USENET news have a USTAT command to get a list of subscribers subscribed to this or that newsgroup on this server.

mailto: listserv@bitnic.bitnet

BITNET mailing lists let you know the list of your subscribers.

Help from newsgroups

comp.mail.maps

This USENET newsgroup regularly publishes lists of UUCP stations, which are then stored on many file servers.

comp.mail.misc

Regularly published FAQ on finding addresses.

soc.college

Regularly published FAQ on finding addresses in colleges and universities.

soc-net-people

Placement of requests for addresses, regular publication of the FAQ on finding addresses.

relcom.maps

ukr.maps

Teleconference network Relcom, intended for the publication of requests for addresses, as well as for posting all sorts of materials that contribute to the search (for example, lists of nodes Relcom network and lists of subscribers of some nodes).

Documents to help

http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/finding-addresses/faq.html

A document that helps in finding e-mail addresses of people.

Non-working opportunities

The following search tools have been mentioned in various manuals, but at present they either do not work at all or their addresses have changed:

mailto: whitepages@wp.psi.com. HELP

X.500 Help Server.

mailto: netserv@bitnic.bitnet HELP

mailto: listserv@bitnic.bitnet send bitnet servers

BITNIC is a Bitnet address server. In addition to actually searching for addresses, it can send a list of Bitnet hosts that have their own address databases.

mailto: kis@cnri.reston.va.us man

mailto: netaddress@regulus.cs.bucknell.edu man

netaddress@sol.bucknell.edu man

Knowbot Information Service.

mailto: mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu HELP

Same as mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu.

Search for e-mail and WWW-addresses of educational institutions and students

http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/FAQs/email/college.html

A document that helps in finding the addresses of people who are graduating or have already graduated from a university or college.

Some white pages and search engines:

http://www.nova.edu/Inter-Links/cgi-bin/coll-email.pl

Search for e-mail addresses of colleges.

http://www.procd.com

Directory of Directories - contains links to more than 100 colleges and universities in the world.

http://fiaker.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8080/cgi-bin/phfd

The University Person Finder is a search form based database that appears to be offline.