People are always moving around, and it it sometimes very difficult to find someone if all you have is an old email address.

There are a few tricks you can always try, for example just trying to use their old email address and seeing if they have one at the popular webmail services such as Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail and AOL. If their old email was formatted like this: email hidden; JavaScript is required, then you can try this formatting at the above mail services. This is not likely to work if they have a common name – you will get a false positive at each of the services.

There are still some mail lookup services that you can use such as emailchange.com, bigfoot.com and reversepath.net. If you have changed email addresses, and would like for old friends to be able to look you up, it would be a good idea to register with each of them.

 

emailchange.com and reversepath.net old email address lookup (Free):

Old Email Address	Free 'Change of Email Address' Registration Old Email Address New Email Address Also add my old/new email registration to Return Path’s Directory.

 

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Bigfoot old email lookup:

First Name Last Name (Required) City State Pick a State AK AL AR AZ CA CO CT DC DE FL GA HI IA ID IL IN KS KY LA MA MD ME MI MN MO MS MT NC ND NE NH NJ NM NV NY OH OK OR PA RI SC SD TN TX UT VA VT WA WI WV WY

 

 

 

 

FindMeMail old email lookup:

Old email lookup from FindMeMail.com
Enter the old e-mail or URL Address:
	(e.g. johns@msu.edu)
Wildcard characters will NOT work. Database searches for full e-mail addresses only. (They have done this to prevent prevent people from compiling a mailing list from their database.)

 

 

 

It would be a good idea to register with these databases so that old friends and potential employers can find you if they need to.

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