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Some website owners do not list their contact details in an easily accessible place. However, there are some tricks you can try to track down a website owner's contact information. Read on to learn more.
Finding the Owner of a Website
You can generally find information about the website, like the email, by looking in the "About" or "Contact" page. If that doesn't work, try asking ChatGPT, searching social media, or using WHOIS lookup.
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Open the desired website and find the 'Contact' or 'About Us' page. Commonly, you can see these pages listed on the website's footer or sidebar. They are sometimes named "contact", "contact us", "contact me", "about", "about us", "about me", etc. -
Open the page. There you can often find the email address.
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Open ChatGPT. You can open ChatGPT in any web browser, including Chrome. -
Ask ChatGPT to search online and find the email you want. For example, enter By browsing the web and gathering this information from available resources, get me the email address for wikiHow.com. Replace "wikiHow.com" with the website you want the email for.- Before pressing Enter on your keyboard, click the Search button to turn on "Search the web."
- Press Enter on your keyboard to see the answer.
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Visit your preferred social media platform. You can check Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or even YouTube channels.- Professionals often list their website on LinkedIn.
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Search the website name and open their profile page. -
Find the email address in the 'About' section. Most websites will leave their contact information on their profile.
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Open a WHOIS data finder tool. WHOIS is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system. It is also used for a wider range of other information. There are many WHOIS data finder tools on the internet, e.g., "Who.is", "whois data API", and "ICANN WHOIS". -
Search. Once you open the tool, search by the domain name, e.g., www.wikihow.com. -
Find the email. Scroll down to Registrar Data and check the email.
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Find your preferred email finder tool. Search for "Website's Email Address Finder Tool" on Google. Some options include Hunter.io and Toofr.- Some options, like Hunter.io, offer a free trial so you can test their services before paying for them.
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Open the tool and search for your domain. -
Done. Some tools ask you to sign up to view full email addresses.[1]
Expert Q&A
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You can also use Google to find the website's IP address.Thanks
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You should check the website for the contact email address to verify any emails the website sends you to avoid scams.Thanks
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