Emailsherlock
free email lookup · no signup

Who is behind this email address?

Paste any email. We pull the person, the domain, the deliverability and the reputation from 14 public sources. Results in under a second.

112M+ addresses indexed
14 public sources
87 blocklists checked
since 2014 12 years online
use cases

People run an email lookup to…

Verify a sender

An offer, an invoice, a recruiter mail. Find out whether the address belongs to the person it claims to belong to.

Spot a fake or scam

Disposable mailbox, freshly-registered domain, mismatched MX. The signals fraud rings leave behind, in plain English.

Find a person again

An old contact, a marketplace seller, a dating profile. One address, the public trace it left online.

Clean a contact list

Paste up to 100 addresses, see invalid, catch-all and risky ones flagged in a single pass. CSV export.

why it matters

Every address leaves a trace. We read it.

Protect your reputation

Bad addresses hurt your domain before they hurt your campaign. Catch them before they reach your ESP.

Clean lists without the spreadsheet

CSV in, verdict out. Invalid, catch-all, role-based and disposable flagged on a single pass.

KPIs follow clean data

Deliverability, open rate and reply rate rise when the list underneath is real.

how we check

Ten checks per lookup. One verdict.

Every lookup runs the full validation pipeline in parallel. You can call any step individually through the API.

  1. 01
    Domain check and validation

    MX and A records, typo correction, freemail and disposable domain lookup.

  2. 02
    Syntax validation

    RFC 5321 and 5322 across the full address, including quoted-local-part edges.

  3. 03
    Disposable email detection

    9,000+ disposable domains, updated daily from public and private lists.

  4. 04
    Catch-all identification

    Detects domains that accept everything, so they do not inflate your stats.

  5. 05
    SMTP bounce check

    Graceful RCPT TO probe against the real MX. No mail ever sent.

  6. 06
    Risk and fraud scoring

    Abuse history, velocity and public-signal combination into a 0 to 100 score.

  7. 07
    Sender reputation

    SPF, DKIM, DMARC and blacklist status, monitored continuously.

  8. 08
    Owner lookup

    Public profile data, company affiliation and professional signals.

deliverability

Know your sending reputation
before your recipients do.

SPF, DKIM, DMARC and 87 public blacklists, checked on schedule, alerted on change. The numbers that decide whether you hit the inbox.

  • → webhook and email alerts
  • → per-domain history, 24 months
  • → Slack, PagerDuty, Datadog
integrations

Plug into the tools you already run.

Email list monitoring

Re-check lists on a schedule. Anything that degrades from deliverable to risky, bounce or disposable is flagged.

API and webhooks

POST results straight into your ESP, CDP, warehouse. No polling, no cron job.

Ops alerts

Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Datadog, Grafana. First-party wire.

questions

Everything you usually ask
before running an email lookup.

If your question is not here, it is in the docs, or one mail away.

Read the full reverse lookup guide
01 Is the email lookup really free?
Yes. The lookup at the top of this page runs the full pipeline: owner, domain, deliverability, reputation. No signup, no credit card, no "upgrade to see the result" wall. Heavy use moves to the API tier; everything you see in the live result on this page is part of the free lookup.
02 What can I find out from an email address?
The person or organisation behind the address, where public. The domain WHOIS and registrar. Deliverability signals (syntax, MX, SMTP, disposable, catch-all). Sender reputation (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, blacklists). And any public breach mentions tied to the address.
03 Will the address owner know I looked them up?
No. We never send a mail. The SMTP check is a graceful RCPT TO probe that disconnects before sending data, so the mailbox never sees a delivery attempt. Your lookup is private to you.
04 Where does the data come from?
14 public reputation sources plus 87 real-time blocklists on every lookup. WHOIS, public DNS, RBL providers, public profile pages, breach indices and our own 12-year crawl. Each line in the result page is sourced so you can see where a signal came from.
05 Can I look up many addresses at once?
Yes. Paste up to 100 addresses for a batch result, or use the API for higher volumes. CSV export is available on every result page.

Have an address in mind?
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