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Email Address Directories and White Pages

There is no phone book for email addresses, but there are a number of directories that let you search for -- and find -- all the email addresses you need. Here's where to start your search.
How to Find Anybody's Email Address: Top Tips for Your Search
You know how elusive email addresses are. Even if you once had a friend's address, you may not be able to locate or recall it now. Or maybe the address has changed. No matter whose email address you are looking for or how much you know about the person, here are eight strategies that you can use right now to help you find. You'll look in new places and obvious but oft-overlooked corners.
@ddresses.com Email Locator - Email Address Directory
Millions of addresses are waiting for searchers in @ddresses.com's worldwide directory of email addresses.
Bigfoot Directory - Email Address Directory
Search Bigfoot's big email address directory.
FreshAddress.com - Email Address Directory
FreshAddress.com links old and new email addresses, but its always up to date database can also be searched for other criteria.
ICQ White Pages - Email Address Directory
Search the directory of ICQ users with numerous criteria to find old and new friends, and their email addresses.
InfoSpace Email Search - Email Address Directory
Search InfoSpace's comprehensive worldwide white pages for email addresses.
Lycos White Pages People Search - Email Address Directory
Find email addresses in what once were the WhoWhere?! white pages or in public records with Lycos people search.
MESA, MetaEmailSearchAgent - Email Address Directory
This meta search engine for email addresses searches no less than 8 directories including Bigfoot, WhoWhere and Yahoo. Great tool!
my.email.address.is - Email Address Directory
My.email.address.is is a meta search engine for email addresses (and not just for mine). It scans the most popular email address directories including Yahoo! and AOL.
MySpace.com Find a Friend - Email Address Directory
The space to meet friends on the web is heavily populated. The chances are good you will find and be able to contact lost friends through MySpace.com.
Pipl People Search - Email Address Directory
In real time, Pipl scours databases and directories such as ICQ, Amazon profiles, flickr or SEC records to find information and people web search engines do not see.
Search the Usenet Addresses Database - Email Address Directory
If you know the person you are looking for has been online for some time, you can try searching this database of people who posted to Usenet from 1991 to 1996.
Spock - Email Address Directory
Spock finds people not only by name and location but also by tags and, well, just about anything related to them.
Switchboard - Email Address Directory
Search Switchboard's white pages for email addresses and more.
The World Email Directory - Email Address Directory
The World Email Directory is a pretty comprehensive, and worldwide directory of email addresses, which can be searched by numerous criteria.
Wink People Search - Email Address Directory
Wink aggregates from both social networking sites and the web to find people's web presences — including ways to send them an email.
Yahoo! People Search - Email Address Directory
Find people in Yahoo's large directory of email addresses based on name, location, old email address (!) or organization name...
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