Reverse Lookup - The Web's Top Reverse Phone Lookup, Reverse Address Lookup and Reverse Email Lookup Tips and Sites

Knowing how and where to do a reverse phone number, reverse address or reverse email lookup is a great skill to have for journalists, investigators, attorneys, legal professionals, skip tracers, research professionals and the general public. Here are the top reverse lookup searches and tips to help find those missing pieces of information on a person or business.

The reverse lookup search sites mentioned below can all be found online at Reverse Lookup . Additional people searches can be found on the Skipease site at People Search or 411x411.com at People Finder.

Most free online white pages and 411 directory assistance searches offer a free reverse phone number lookup and reverse address lookup. These reverse lookup searches are quick and easy to use, but will only return results for phone numbers and addresses that are listed with directory assistance. In addition, the information on these reverse lookup sites may be somewhat dated by several months or more, since most free directory assistance searches do not offer the same up-to-date listings that a 411 operator can provide.

DAPlus is a free online directory assistance site that pulls its people search records from consumer information data as well as public record data, in addition to directory assistance data. As a result, DAPlus contains millions of additional reverse lookup records not found on other free directory assistance sites. You can access the DAPlus reverse phone number lookup and address lookup searches at the link mentioned at the top of this release.

Finding an area code from a city or a city from an area code is simply a matter of using a reverse area code lookup search. You can also find a zip code from a city or a city from a zip code by using a reverse zip code lookup search.

FinAid has a reverse address lookup search that contains listings for more than 40,000 mailing, shipping, and packaging stores, US Post Offices and other mail drops. A search engine like Google or Yahoo is also good for this type of reverse address lookup to find out if the address and any identifying location information is listed on any web pages that have been indexed. This is also a great way to determine if an address is part of an apartment or office complex as well as the name and management contacts for the complex.

Fone Finder provides a nice reverse phone number lookup that accepts an area code and 3 digit phone number prefix to determine if a given phone number is a land line or cell phone / mobile / wireless number. The Payphone Project has a searchable database of over 500,000 payphone numbers. Again, it is also advisable to run a phone number through a search engine like Google or Yahoo to see if the number is listed on any web pages that have been indexed by the search engines.

Find out if a number is on the Us Government's "Do Not Call" list by entering it into the publicly-available "Do Not Call" search. Results will be returned to users with a valid email address.

Roots Web provides a reverse county search that finds a county with a valid city & state.

As more and more information goes online a great way to try to reverse an unpublished phone number, physical address or email address is to run it through one of the major search engines like Google or Yahoo. In addition, you could always try running the number or address through one of the meta search engine sites that check all the major search engines at once. Some good meta search engines are Mamma.com or Dogpile.com.

Search engines are especially useful for looking up typically unpublished phone numbers, addresses, cell phone numbers and email addresses, provided the number or address has been published somewhere on the internet and indexed by the engine

Search the blogs. Try reversing an unpublished phone number, physical address or email address on the millions of blog sites by using one or more of the major blog searches like technorati.com, icerocket.com or blogsearch.google.com.

Search the news. Try reverse searching a phone number, physical address or email address using the major news sites online. It is always possible that the phone number or address appears in a current or past news item. Two good news sites to start with are Google News and Yahoo News.

Online classifieds, message boards and discussion groups are also good places to try reversing a phone number, physical address or email address, since posters will often include some type of personal contact information in their posts. Two popular examples are craigslist.com and groups.google.com. There are a number of sites online that will do a reverse lookup on a web site address or IP address to see who it belongs to. One of the most reliable reverse web address and reverse IP address searches is provided by Network Solutions at networksolutions.com/whois

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Skipease People Search and People Finder search sites have been helping people find people since 1999. A comprehensive list of reverse lookup sites can be found at Reverse Lookup.