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Lookup First & Last Name (Surname) or business name or any other name associated with an email address or Instant Messenger Name. Lookup email address or Instant Messenger Name by Name or Address. Reverse email Address, Instant Messenger Name, Screen Name or Username searches help deduce possible Names, Addresses, IP's, sources or locations through your search criteria.

What is an email address?

An e-mail address identifies an electronic destination to which an electronic message can be delivered. A modern Internet email address (using SMTP) is a string of the form myname@domain.com. It should be read as "myname" at "domain" dot com. The part before the @ sign is the local-part of the address, often the username of the recipient or destination, and the part after the @ sign is a domain name which can be looked up in the Domain Name System to find the mail exchange servers accepting email for that address. The first part of the address, the email user name, identifies a unique user on an email server. The @ symbol separates the user name from the host or server name. The host name uniquely identifies the server computer and is the last part of the Internet email address. The three letter suffix in the host or server name identifies the kind of organization operating the server such as .com for commercial organizations, edu for educational institutions and so on.

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What is an Instant Messenger name?

An Instant Message allows electronic communications to happen in real time and an Instant Messenger name or user ID identify the electronic destinations to which the messages terminate. For example email can be compared to a letter sent in the mail while instant messaging can be compared to a conversation over the phone. Instant messaging requires the use of a client program that hooks up an instant messaging service. Most services offer a presence information feature, indicating whether people on one's list of contacts are currently online and available to chat. This may be called a 'Buddy List'. In early instant messaging programs, each letter appeared as it was typed, and when letters were deleted to correct typos this was also seen in real time. This made it more like a telephone conversation than exchanging letters. In modern instant messaging programs, the other party in the conversation generally only sees each line of text right after a new line is started. Most instant messaging applications also include the ability to set a status message, roughly analogous to the message on a telephone answering machine.

What is the difference between a Domain Name, an IP Address and a Computer host Name?

Domain names are similar to vanity phone numbers where words are assigned to represent the phone number. Domain name is a text name that a computer network registers for the numerical ID of the computers in the network. The domain name is used to give computers text names rather than using the numeric IP addresses. Domain name examples are Abika.com, cnn.com, usatoday.com. Computer (host) name are names given to individual computers. Each host name corresponds to an IP address. Host names and domain names are optional and everything can work fine with using just IP Addresses. Examples of host names: www.cnn.com, mail.people.com, Cust149.tnt3.sfo3.da.UU.net and so on.

What is a Reverse DNS Lookup?

A Reverse DNS lookup will give you the name of a computer as listed in the Domain Name Server databases maintained by the ISP's from the IP address.

What is an email or Instant Messenger handle?

Handle is the initial part of the email before @ and Instant Messenger Name handle is just the IM Name without specifying an IM service provider.

What is the difference between a Domain Name, an IP Address and a Computer host Name?

What is a proxy server?

Proxy server is a computer system, server, or an application program that forwards the requests of it clients to other servers or applications. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting a service, such as a file, connection, web page, email, instant message or other resource that is available from a different server. The proxy server provides the resource by connecting to the specified server and requesting the service on behalf of the client. A proxy server may optionally alter the client's request or the server's response, and sometimes it may serve the request without contacting the specified server. In this case, it would 'cache' the first request to the remote server, so it could save the information for later, and make everything as fast as possible.

What affects the relevancy of results?

Lookups are a cooperative process. They help you deduce possible Names, Addresses, IP's, sources or locations through your search criteria and public resources. Your input criteria such as reason for search, your observations and descriptions affect relevancy. It is generally very easy to create and close email and IMs and therefore it can be possible that over a period of time many different results could be associated with the same criteria. Please also note that Email addresses, IP's, Usernames or Instant Messenger names can be reused by many users over a period of time. Statistically the newer or less active the email or IM the lower the probability of verifiable Name(s), location(s) or other results associated with them. Depending on many variables there may be no one magic search or answer to lookup an email, IP, IM or username. Lookups estimate results through your search criteria and public resources and will not search or access any private service provider records.