How do I find all the email addresses of a domain?

Your email is one of your most important assets. It's also one that can be very difficult to manage and keep up to date on its own. You need a way to find email addresses quickly so you don't lose them when they go inactive.

You might want to look at some other tools we have recommended for managing your inbox if you're looking for something more advanced. There are plenty of great apps available as well!

If you need help figuring out which email service is best for you, check our guide to picking a webmail provider. If you've got a specific question about Google Gmail, check out this article. And if you want to know why people shouldn't use Microsoft Outlook, read this.

In short, there isn't just one right answer here. The key issue is whether you like using mobile devices (which tend not to support POP3) or desktop clients (like Thunderbird). But even then, it depends on exactly what kind of device you plan to use, too. Email doesn't work the same everywhere.

But let's say you've decided which platform works best for you. Great -- now you'll probably want to figure out where those emails are coming from. That's where the following tools come into play. Some will give you a complete list of every user who ever had access to your account. Others will only show you recent activity. Still others will offer ways to filter through everything to find just the ones you care about.

We're going to focus on finding active users' email addresses rather than getting a full dump of everyone connected to your account. In fact, we won't be listing any services that require payment upfront. Instead, we'll focus on services that either charge per month or provide their data for free. We'll start with two popular options but leave room for more suggestions below.

Do you get email addresses with domain?

Let's take a quick look at what happens when you type a business name into a search engine. Sometimes you'll see a page that lists contact information, sometimes you won't. What's happening behind the scenes?

When you enter a URL into your browser (or copy/paste), the site loads up first before displaying anything to you. This means the server has to send over lots of different files in order to load up a webpage. Many sites include things like images, CSS stylesheets, JavaScript code, etc., depending on how fancy the design is. In addition, many websites today rely heavily on databases for content management.

That takes time. So while someone types "Google" into his browser, Google gets a request to display the home page. When Google receives that request, it sends back HTML code to tell the browser what to display. Then comes another round of requests and responses until finally, Google displays the results.

This process repeats itself whenever you visit a new site. Each time, you add a little bit of extra overhead onto whatever else the website needs to serve up. As such, loading pages can slow down your internet connection significantly.

A lot of website owners realize this and try to speed up their servers to save bandwidth. They either host the content themselves or hire someone to do it for them. Either way, the faster they make their site load up, the better off they are.

So, when you type in a website's name into Google, which version does Google return? How long does each response take? Do you really want Google to deliver that much data to you just to show you a simple link? No, you don't.

As such, Google keeps track of which domains redirect to yours. A domain redirects to your site (and vice versa) if someone tries to reach it directly without typing in your domain name first. For example, suppose you live at 12345example.com and you run a blog called SuperBlogger.net. Someone could accidentally type in superblogger.net instead of 12345example.com, causing a redirection to happen. The person wouldn't notice because he would never normally type that address into his browser.

However, Google knows to avoid sending that much traffic to your site simply because it sees that 12345example.com points to SuperBlogger.net. By doing this, Google saves bandwidth and makes sure your visitors always end up on the correct page.

Even though Google uses these tricks to make searching easier for us, it still shows the original URL in certain cases. This is especially true if you're logged into Chrome, since it stores your browsing history locally.

For instance, assume you typed google.com into your browser and clicked on the top result. Next, you went straight to Google's homepage and started reading articles. Now imagine you left your computer alone overnight and came back to discover that Google sent a bunch of requests to your ISP after midnight. Those requests slowed your Internet connection tremendously.

Here's another reason to love Google: Whenever possible, it caches pages for future visits. After all, if you were to click on a cached page later on, you'd experience no slowdown whatsoever. However, you should understand that caching often involves storing large amounts of data locally -- potentially slowing performance even further.

It goes without saying that Google's cache contains far fewer entries than the actual database it pulls from. Also, Google automatically deletes old items from its cache once they expire.

Still, it's nice to know that if you wanted to dig deep enough, you could eventually locate every single piece of information stored within Google's index.

Now, I'm assuming you already knew that the above was true -- otherwise, you likely wouldn't be reading this post. Let me explain.

There's actually quite a few companies that specialize in crawling the Web and turning it into useful data. One such company is Yext. Once upon a time, the company provided businesses with phone numbers via text messages. Today, however, it provides a variety of helpful online services including directory listings, public records, social media profiles, and email addresses.

Yext crawls the entire Web and indexes millions of URLs. From there, it creates highly detailed data sets that anyone can download for free. All you have to pay for is the storage space needed to store the data set.

Some of the data Yext collects includes:

Full names

Phone number

Address

Email address

Website

Social network profile links

Company name

Other relevant details

With this wealth of information, Yext offers a wide range of products aimed at helping businesses grow and thrive. These include:

Directory Listings - Free listings appear in search engines under the Business category.

Business Profiles - Includes customer reviews, ratings, hours of operation, location, photos, videos, and more.

Contact Us Forms - Provides easy forms for customers to fill out and submit.

What's cool about Yext's approach is that it requires zero action from you. Just sign up for a paid subscription and you'll receive access to all of Yext's various resources.

One thing worth mentioning here is that Yext may collect data about you even if you aren't signed up for a paid membership. That said, the vast majority of its collection methods involve gathering publicly accessible information.

How do I get bulk email addresses?

Bulk email providers exist solely to handle massive volumes of incoming mail. As such, they usually ask you to pay for their service. Most of these services allow you to create multiple mailing lists based on criteria such as IP address, country, age group, language spoken, gender, and occupation.

These lists can then be used to send newsletters, promotions, surveys, and more. Some of the best services include:

SendGrid - Offers several plans ranging anywhere between $5-$300 per month. SendGrid allows you to send unlimited emails per day and lets you customize subject lines, footers, and templates.

Zoho Mail - Similar to SendGrid, Zoho Mail offers three pricing tiers and lets you pick a custom template for your message.

ProtonMail - Offers five packages ranging from $5-$30 per year. With ProtonMail, you can choose to hide your identity entirely or reveal it to recipients.

Mikogo - Allows you to select from six categories to build your mailing list. Mikogo costs $9.99 per month.

Postmarkapp - Lets you send personalized emails to contacts who opt-in on your behalf. Postmarkapp offers four levels of service starting at $4.95 per month.

Drip - Drip offers seven different plans ranging from $10-$100 per month. Drip allows you to send unlimited emails per week and promises 100% privacy protection.

Wix - Wix offers three basic plans ranging from $6-$20 per month. Like Drip, Wix guarantees 100% privacy protection for members.

How do you find out what email is associated with your domain name?

Once again, there's a huge difference between knowing where your email ends up and knowing who owns the physical mailbox. Thankfully, there are a handful of tools that can help you determine which email service is responsible for your domain.

If you know someone’s full business email address and want it for your own use, chances are good that they would be happy about it if asked nicely. But where does one go to ask such a thing politely? If you're not sure exactly who owns the domain you need to contact, there's no better place to start than finding its owner.

You might even have some luck just asking them outright—but we'll talk more about that later on. The easiest way to find someone else's email address is through Google search. Just type their name into Google along with "email" and see what comes up (we've done this here before). You may also try searching other online directories like Crunchbase or LinkedIn.

But sometimes you don't want to bother with any of these options. Maybe you already know the person but aren't quite sure which email is theirs to give away. Or maybe you're looking for multiple emails at once. In either case, there's another option. It's called “domain lookup," and it lets you quickly look up email addresses for domains across several different services.

Let’s say you want to find all the emails belonging to the.com domain of a friend. Here's how to do it using Google Search.

First, head over to www.whois.net/getinfo. Paste the URL into the box provided, select “Get info” under the heading “Search WHOIS databases,” then click Go!

Now you should see a long string of information describing the domain itself. Scroll down past the technical details until you reach the Contact Information section. This will show you everything related to the domain as well as all the registered owners. For example, when we looked up our own domain, the top line said something like:

This is the same data you'd get if you were to open the WhoIs database directly in your browser. However, instead of typing in the link every time, you can create a shortcut to access it easily. To do so, press Ctrl + U followed by Enter inside Chrome. Then paste in the following code:

After clicking Save Page As, save the file somewhere convenient and call it whatever you wish. Now whenever you want to check the Whois database for domain information, all you have to do is double-click the saved file.

Note that you won't always get the exact same results from each service. That's because each site uses slightly different methods to determine ownership, and those differences vary depending on the registrar involved. So while you may see a particular email listed twice, that doesn't necessarily mean it belongs to both people. We ran all three sites mentioned above against our own domain, and found only two sets of email addresses. One belonged to us, and the other was owned by a third party.

However, since most companies keep records of customer contacts on their websites, there's often little reason to worry about this issue. And if you really want to make sure you got rid of all duplicates, simply delete the extra entries yourself after checking them all.

For more ways to get around spam filters and improve your inbox security, read our guide to protecting your privacy without sacrificing convenience.

Where can I get a list of email addresses for free?

There are plenty of places online where you can buy lists of email accounts, including Spambox Free Email Finder. However, you shouldn't count on getting accurate information from these sources. Not only do many come from spammers themselves, but others are bought wholesale from resellers.

That means you could end up paying far too much for the privilege of having a bunch of useless addresses stored in your account. A better alternative is to download a reputable email list generator. These tools offer a wide variety of features, from filtering junk mail to providing detailed reports for every item included. They typically allow users to export email addresses to spreadsheets or text files, making them easy to sort manually.

One popular choice among professional marketers is BulkEmailTools. Its free version offers basic functionality for $39 per month. Another excellent program worth considering is DomainTools. While it costs $10 per year, the premium plan provides unlimited searches and exports to Excel. Both programs offer a 30-day money back guarantee as well.

We recommend trying out whichever ones appeal to you first. Afterward, sign up for a trial subscription to test whether the software has all the features you need.

How can I find all my old email addresses?

Sometimes you may forget your password. Other times, you may lose track of where you put important documents. Regardless, you probably still remember the names of certain coworkers and friends whose email addresses you used years ago. What if you wanted to send messages to everyone on your buddy list now, but didn't want to spend hours combing through your inbox? There's a quick way to gather all your personal email addresses in seconds.

To begin, log into your Gmail account and click Settings & More " Forwarding and POP/IMAP." Underneath the Subject field, add a note saying "Bulk email from [your username]" to remind yourself why you sent this message. Next, scroll down to the bottom of the page and hit Add recipient. From here, choose All recipients... and follow the steps shown below.

This process works best for large groups, especially those that share similar interests. But if you have dozens of individual addresses in mind, you can skip the forwarding step entirely. Simply enter each address individually and hit Send.

How do I get an entire email list in Gmail?

Gmail makes it incredibly simple to move emails between folders, so why not take advantage of it to organize your entire email collection?

It goes beyond just moving your emails into separate categories, though. You can actually label new items based upon the content of the subject line. You can set up custom rules to automatically filter incoming messages according to keywords within the body of the email itself. Plus, Gmail allows you to scan your entire archive for specific words and phrases, saving you valuable time and energy.

Once you’ve built up enough experience with this feature, you may decide to automate the whole operation. There are numerous third-party apps available that provide advanced spam detection capabilities and automatic categorization of incoming messages. Some even let you perform batch operations, allowing you to import millions of emails into your system without breaking a sweat.

Not interested in shelling out cash for a solution? Check out the best free email clients for Windows 10.

How do I find out what email is associated with a website?

A common situation involves needing a webmaster's email address without being able to figure out the right one. Sometimes the correct email address isn't immediately obvious, and in other cases, you might never learn the answer. Fortunately, there's a very effective method for tracking down the proper person responsible for managing a given website.

When you visit a website, you're likely to encounter a little banner offering to connect you with the developer behind the project. Usually, this happens via some kind of social network like Facebook or Twitter. When it does happen, however, you can generally trust it to serve as a reliable source of contact information. Often, the person signing off as the creator of the site is the actual administrator of the domain.

So how do you tell whether a given email address belongs to the real deal? Well, it depends on the circumstances. If you’re dealing with a small team of developers working together remotely, chances are you’ll run into issues sooner rather than later. On the other hand, if you’re talking to a big corporation, odds are high that whoever handles communications for the company will handle things internally.

In either scenario, the safest bet is to assume that the email address belongs to the company CEO unless proven otherwise. Of course, you should always verify anything you hear with the appropriate authorities anyway.

Don't miss our article detailing how to stop receiving unwanted email ads.

You can use any web browser and search engine to look up an individual's contact details (name, phone number, physical location) but there is little point when it comes to finding their email address too. The only thing worse than being unable to track down someone's email is having no idea where to even start looking!

It's not difficult to find your own email address - simply go to Gmail and type "me" into the search bar. But this won't work if you're trying to search for email addresses that have been created on behalf of other people.

There are several ways to discover who owns a particular domain and then find out which accounts they may be using to send email through. This article will explain some of them.

How do I know what email is connected to my website?

If you own a Wordpress site you can access the database. Go to Settings " General " Database information and scroll down until you see Table prefix. For example, mine says wp_wp_46. If you don't know what a table prefix is, just leave it blank. Then head back to Settings " Permalinks and click Save Changes. You'll now be able to view all posts with full email data attached.

This is useful for two reasons: firstly, because you can check whether anyone has signed up to receive updates via email, and secondly, because it makes it easier to update these records later should you need to change something about the content.

But this method isn't ideal for websites whose owners aren't comfortable giving you access to their databases. What about sites that store user data in Google Sheets or Microsoft Excel files? Or those that haven't yet set up a CMS? We'll come onto that shortly.

How do I find out which emails are registered to a domain?

One way to quickly and easily identify which domains contain email addresses is to sign up for one of the many services that offer a free trial period before asking for payment. Some examples include ProtonMail, Zoho Mail, SendGrid, Postmark, MailGun and Fastmail.com. During this time, you'll usually be given a unique URL along with instructions on how to log in. If you want to keep hold of your personal data afterwards, make sure you tick the box at the top saying "Keep me logged in".

Once you're inside the service, click the Accounts tab followed by the Add Account button. From here, enter the username and password that was provided during registration and hit Next Step. On the next screen select Email Address from the dropdown menu and click Continue. Now choose the option marked With Full Access to add as many users as you like. Once complete, click Save and follow the prompts to finish adding the new email addresses.

Now we have our own copy of each email address, we can take a closer look at them individually. There are three main options here:

An Outlook inbox showing the sender's name, subject line and date/time received

A Thunderbird Inbox showing the sender's name, subject header and date/time sent

Each email address listed under its respective IMAP folder within either Outlook or Thunderbird. Clicking each one reveals more detailed info including the original message ID, the total size of attachments included in the mail, the last modified timestamp and the IP address used to deliver the email.

We could also try searching each email address in both clients separately. To do so, right-click the email address in question followed by More Actions " Search for Messages. Select Advanced Options from the resulting pop-up window and enter the email address in the Find field. A list of matching messages will appear below.

However, while this technique works well for identifying single emails, it doesn't scale very well. It would be impossible to hunt through thousands of emails manually. Fortunately, there are tools available that automate much of this process.

How do you find every account I've ever made?

While we found out how to locate all the existing email addresses belonging to a specific domain, there's another way to identify all the accounts that have been created since the beginning of time. All you need to do is visit the WHOIS lookup page for a certain domain name and click the link labelled View Registrants. Scroll down past the basic registrant information to reach the bottom of the page. Here you'll find a section titled Registered Name Servers. Each entry shows a series of numbers separated by commas. These are the DNS servers responsible for maintaining the integrity of the domain. As long as you remember the order, you can use them to figure out which domains were previously hosted on the same server.

For example, let's say we wanted to find out which email addresses belong to the domain names weblogic.net, ebay.co.uk and facebook.com. If we input these three URLs into the WHOIS lookup tool, we'd expect to see something similar to this:

As you can see, the nameserver for blogspot.com appears twice. That means it once belonged to the owner of blogspot.com and the second time belongs to the person who bought it from the previous owner. Likewise, ebay.co.uk and Facebook.com share the same nameserver, meaning the former was owned by eBay and sold off to a third party after a short interval.

In case you're wondering why the third line includes multiple entries for google.com, these are actually different parts of Google's network infrastructure. They're used to route traffic between different regions around the world, such as Europe vs America.

How do you find every account I've ever made?

So far we've looked at how to find all the email addresses linked to a specific domain. However, this method requires us to login to the hosting provider's control panel and perform a tedious manual scan. Alternatively, we can download a program called WhoisMaster which does exactly that automatically. Simply input the domain name you wish to investigate into the search field and press Enter. After a few seconds, the results will show you everything you need to know about the ownership of the domain.

To find out the most recent contacts added to your GMail account, open the Contacts app and tap Edit Contact Info. Head over to the People tab and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Below each contact are additional fields containing various pieces of information relating to their latest activity.