How To Find Someone’s Email Address: 13 Easy Ways

You don’t need to use all your connections to find the needed email address.

You don’t need to spend much time, money, and effort on it.

All you need to do is to find your perfect email search tool or method.

In this post, we have compiled 13 easy methods to find email addresses, from simple to advanced, from free address lookup tools to paid ones. It will be helpful to everyone, especially sales professionals looking for potential leads and marketing specialists who want to expand their networks.

How to find someone’s email address:

Use an email finder tool

There are so many tools to find email addresses that you might get confused while choosing. But don’t worry. To make your life a bit easier, we’ve selected several free and paid ones that we recommend for any taste and budget!

Snov.io Email Finder

Pricing: 50 free searches per month available on a Trial plan. Paid plans start at $39.

Snov.io is a sales engagement and automation platform that offers tools for lead generation, cold outreach, and sales management.

About Email Finder

You can find email addresses in several ways:

• Find emails by domain
• Find emails by company
• Get emails from names

You can also filter prospects using key parameters such as job position, industry, location, or skills to look for only targeted leads.

Email Finder is available as a Chrome extension and via Snov.io’s web app. With the latter, you can also upload files with first name, last name, and domain or URL to find email addresses.

But there’s more to it!

• Verify email addresses in bulk.
• Create multichannel campaigns with automated LinkedIn actions, such as profile views and personalized messages.
• Analyze your campaigns with detailed reports.
• Manage your processes in a user-friendly CRM.

FindEmails.com

Pricing: from $29 per month for 1,000 searches.

About the tool

You can find email addresses via the browser extension or your account on the service website. Fill in all the fields—the person’s first name, last name, and domain—and enjoy the results!

In addition to a single email search, you can upload a list of addresses in a CSV format and find multiple addresses at once.

Voila Norbert

Pricing: from $49 per month for 1,000 searches. Free trial available for 50 searches.

Here, you pay $10 more and get the same number of searches as with Snov.io Email Finder.

About the tool

With this email search service, you can find email addresses by filling in the prospect’s first name, last name, and domain (pretty much the same procedure as other platforms).

Norbert sends a signal to the mail host to verify email addresses. This way, you don’t have to worry about getting incorrect contact details.

Available as a Chrome extension and a web app, the tool is easy to use in your work routine. Besides, it also includes integrations with most major email marketing services, CRMs, and blogging tools.

Hunter.io

Pricing: from $49 per month for 500 searches. 25 searches per month available on a free plan.

About the tool

Hunter.io is a Chrome extension and web app that helps you find email contacts on a specific domain. To do this, you can either enter the domain into the web app or use the Chrome extension to fetch all addresses from the website you are currently visiting.

If you want a complete list of all contacts in a particular company, Hunter.io can help you.

Free email address lookup

If you don’t have the names of the companies’ representatives you are interested in, then first you need to find more information about them.

Use Crunchbase.

This website will help you find data on digital companies and startups with a detailed listing of key individuals’ names and positions worldwide. Although you won’t get a list of emails, there are links to LinkedIn and Twitter profiles.

Just write the company name in the Current Organization field and get a list of key people and info about them.

See a person who you think is perfect to reach out to? Click their name, get an overview of them, and find links to their social media accounts.

When the names of the employees of the company you are interested in are in your hands, you can move on to search generators like Email Address Guesser.

All you need to do is enter first name, last name, and domain, and you’ll get a list of possible email address combinations for the leads you are into.

Let’s try finding my address. Here it is:

Besides, you can use a similar email guesser — Email Permutator. Same functionality with a cute design!

Try search engines like DuckDuckGo

Surprisingly, few people know about this method of finding contacts, but it’s pretty good.

Searching for an exact match to “@domainname.com” in DuckDuckGo will give you results for any public email addresses attached to the domain.

You can include your prospect’s name in your search if you want to reach out to someone specific or just run a domain search.

Note: This trick can work with other search engines like Yahoo! but won’t work on Google and Bing. The reason is that they use “@” for social media tags.

Crawl through WHOIS data

WHOIS data is used in domain registration and is publicly available, giving you information about who owns the domain. By law, anyone with a website must provide their contact details. 

You can find email addresses by going to namecheap.com, who.is, or mxtoolbox.com and searching for the domain of the email.

Note: This option is more suitable for small websites, such as author blogs. If you use WHOIS to find contacts from larger sites, you may not find what you are looking for. A person could buy this domain and give it to their team for use.

Look up in Google

Yes, we’ve previously mentioned that exact match domain search won’t work in Google, but this doesn’t mean you can’t find email addresses with its help!

Here’s how free email search works here: just try typing the person’s name and adding the words “mail,” “contacts,” or “contact me” to it. If you know their website, launch a Google search by typing “site: site_name and name”.

There are a few other handy search queries:

• [firstname] [lastname] email

• [firstname] [lastname] contact

• [firstname] [lastname] [company] email/contact

• [firstname] [lastname] email/contact site:[domain.com]

If you frequently search for email addresses, Waldo can speed up your email hunting on Google. After installing the Waldo extension, simply enter the desired name and click the “Emails” filter on the left panel.

Check on LinkedIn

LinkedIn is a major player in providing emails because this platform is designed for professionals and businesses to connect and showcase their skills and services.

Since people use LinkedIn for work, they likely want others to connect with them, making it the best place to find valid emails.

The easiest way to find someone’s email on LinkedIn is to check the Contact section of their profile.

If it’s not there, we recommend using Snov.io LI Prospect Finder. This easy-to-use Chrome extension is designed specifically for finding and scraping emails from LinkedIn.

 Here’s where you can search email addresses using it: 

• LinkedIn search bar: spot emails by job titles or companies and add them to your list.

• User pages: scrape emails directly from LinkedIn profiles and gather them in custom prospect lists.
• Corporate pages: find companies by name and collect contacts of their current employees.

Just download the LI Prospect Finder extension, go to your LinkedIn page, and search for your prospects in the LinkedIn search bar. Follow these steps:

• Type in the name, job title, or adjust essential filters (such as People, Jobs, Connections, Locations, or Current Company), then click the extension icon to activate it.

• You can also use Multipage search for advanced email lookup options, such as the number of prospects you want to collect or timeout settings for a more safe approach.

• Click ‘Save’ to organize your contacts into a new folder in Snov.io’s web app. No need to verify them again — LI Prospect Finder has already done the job, marking them with colors just like Snov.io Email Finder.

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Look up on Facebook

Facebook is pretty laid-back, but many users DO mention their job positions, companies, and contacts there, especially if they use their profiles to promote their services or business.

So, there’s a good chance you can find an email address right on the individual’s profile page in the “Contact and basic information” section.

If the user has decided to show their email, you’ll see it right at the top of this section.

💡Pro-tip! Whenever you search email addresses in the Facebook contact section and don’t find any, you might come across plenty of links to your prospect’s other social media profiles. Sounds like more opportunities to snag someone’s email address! Moreover, people often include their company pages, where email addresses are likely to be found.

→ Learn more about how to find emails on Facebook in our guide.

Try other social media platforms like X (Twitter) and Snapchat

I admit that looking for business email addresses on these platforms may not sound like much, but you’ll still be able to find some contact information there as well.

X (Twitter)

You can check whether the person you are looking for has left tweets that mention their email address using the Search option.

• Enter your search into the search bar.

 Some of the search terms may include “email,” “reach,” “contact,” as well as “at” and “dot.”

• Click the Advanced search button, located underneath Search filters on the upper right of your results page.

• Enter any search terms you find fitting.

• Enter the account handle.

In just 5 seconds, we found Neil’s email.

Snapchat

Since Snapchat is more of a photo/video entertainment platform, finding users’ contacts can be tricky — profiles usually don’t display emails. Even though finding info depends a lot on whether users choose to share their personal details, you might want to try these tips:

• Check the user’s bio — sometimes, for commercial or personal reasons, people mention their emails there.
• Search for the user’s name online, including Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and free email lookup services.
• Check user bios for mentions of their company pages, where you can search for emails.
• If needed, ask the user directly, but make sure you have a good reason.

→ Learn more about how to find emails on Snapchat in our detailed guide

Use subscription forms

If the contacts you want to connect with have a blog site and a subscription form, then what are you waiting for? 🙂

Subscribe for updates, like we did when visiting the Ahrefs website.

Most emails, in this case, usually come from personal accounts. And we are convinced of the effectiveness of this method, having received an email from the personal address of the representative of the company, Joshua Hardwick (Head of Content).

Fill in contact forms

Big companies often have either a contact form on their website or a list of email addresses for inquiries (e.g., info@domainname.com). These incoming messages are usually handled by customer support agents or assistants.

💡Pro-tip! Want a quicker response? Check out the live chat feature on corporate pages. You can ask for email details there. Just make sure to give a good reason for why they should help you!

Use Ahrefs Content Explorer

Right off the bat, this is not a free method! It will cost you from $99 per month, but there’s a free trial period of 7 days.

Go to Content Explorer and find a topic that interests you. If the author is listed in the article, it will show their name. Then you need to export the received data to a file, where you will see the author’s name in the corresponding column. You can extract the domain from the URL of the article.

Let’s take a look at the example. 

Say, you’re promoting lead generation software. Go to Content Explorer and run the query. Here’s what you get:

The authors are not listed in some cases, but you can still find useful contacts. 

Next, you need to export the received data by clicking Export in the upper right corner.

In the file, you will see the names of the authors. All that’s left to do is to get the domain using the formula you can find in the screenshot below.

Now you have the names and domains, but still no email addresses. 

What to do next? Use Email Permutator or Email Address Guesser to generate an email address (free tools we’ve talked about earlier).

Find contacts of media employees with Pressfarm

The Pressfarm website contains emails of journalists from the largest US publications. The service has recently been updated and now, in addition to addresses, it also shows profiles on social networks. 

There are 500+ PR/mass media outlets and 75,000+ reporters and bloggers in the database.

On the downside, there’s no free version. The pricing starts from $280 (one-time charge)

Look up on Slideshare

Slideshare is a service companies and public figures use to upload their presentations from webinars and conferences. In the last slide, as a rule, you can find a personal email.

Ask directly

If you’ve exhausted all your options and still can’t find the right email, here’s a final trick: check out contacts who are close to the person you’re looking for on LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitter. You might find a helpful lead there!

You can also check their subscriptions, comment sections, or the profiles they interact with the most. The internet has plenty of activity trails, so try reaching out to these connections with a friendly request to help you get in touch with the person you’re looking for.

You can also give corporate websites a try. Contact general email addresses, like sales@ or support@, or reach out to your prospects’ coworkers. They might be able to point you in the right direction!

Why is it so important to find the right email address?

Your email outreach doesn’t end here. It’s important to verify your database, especially if you’ve searched for email addresses free of charge. 

Sending emails to nonexistent or outdated addresses is not only a waste of effort. You risk being blacklisted by your ESP and can end up with a damaged sender reputation.

Besides, any company that sends bulk mailings needs to validate the contact database from time to time. Think about it, an increase in the number of bad email addresses on your list by just 1% can decrease your deliverability by 10%.

But we got your back! There are special services to find emails — email validators (aka verifiers). 

Such email verification tools will help you communicate with interested parties. This leads to higher open rates, more sales, increased brand awareness, and higher conversion rates. At the same time, you aren’t damaging the reputation of your domain, and your emails will always be delivered.

One of those tools is Snov.io Email Verifier, which has a 7-tier verification process that includes catch-all, syntax, gibberish, domain existence, MX record, and freemail checks, as well as SMTP authentication.

Wrapping up

That’s it! Now you know 12 useful ways to find someone’s email address. Try different options and find the one that works best for you.

It’s worth noting that, of course, the best trick here is to use email finders (we might be a bit biased here). Why? Most of them also provide email verification that can save you from getting in trouble.

Do it together with Email Finder, and we, Snov.io, will help you with that.