Hi
I read a thread(2013) about finding previous owners of an ip Address, started by tradpole1, were you able to help? i have an email i would like to do the same, ie find the owner of the ip at the time of the email.
Or a reverse email address search, i have seen a number of pay sites US based that offer the service, i have no objection to paying but if you read the reviews of the sites a lot seem to make it difficult to cancel membership and keep taking the money.
So if you know of a trustworthy site, that would help too, the email owner vanished off the radar five years ago and I believe may have passed away, I would just like to get some form of closure so any guidance you can give would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
previous ip owner / email reverse search
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Re: previous ip owner / email reverse search
I think you're going to have a difficult time.
Most ISP's don't keep their logs any longer than they need to by law. I'm sure that 5 years is well beyond that time. You'd also need to file a law suit to subpoena the records...
For any of the reverse lookup sites to provide you anything useful that email address would have to have been used publicly in a way that it was tied to the user. For example, was a domain name registered using that address, etc. Again, I think with it being 5 years old you're going to run into difficulties.
Have you tried Googling the email address in quotes and checked all the results?
Most ISP's don't keep their logs any longer than they need to by law. I'm sure that 5 years is well beyond that time. You'd also need to file a law suit to subpoena the records...
For any of the reverse lookup sites to provide you anything useful that email address would have to have been used publicly in a way that it was tied to the user. For example, was a domain name registered using that address, etc. Again, I think with it being 5 years old you're going to run into difficulties.
Have you tried Googling the email address in quotes and checked all the results?
Re: previous ip owner / email reverse search
Hi yes i did, google gave a negative result unfortunately, when i put the address into spokeo and Sherlock they both indicated a record being there, but again that could be anything i suppose lol.