A Comprehensive Guide to Finding a Website's Email Address

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Get the email address of a website

Written by Darlene Antonelli, MA

Last Updated: May 5, 2025 Fact Checked

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Checking the Website

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Using ChatGPT

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Checking Social Media

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Asking in Forums/Communities

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Doing a WHOIS Lookup

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Using Email Finder Services

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Tips

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.

Method 1

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Checking the Website

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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.
There you can often find the email address.

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Using ChatGPT

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You can open ChatGPT in any web browser, including Chrome.
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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.

Method 3

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Checking Social Media

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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.
Most websites will leave their contact information on their profile.

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Asking in Forums/Communities

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Find a community or forum on the same topic. For example, if you're looking for the contact email for catladybox.com, you might ask for help in a cat-based subreddit.
- Avoid asking for the contact email in an unrelated community, like asking a group of mechanics what the email is for the catladybox.com site.

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Doing a WHOIS Lookup

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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".
Once you open the tool, search by the domain name, e.g., www.wikihow.com.
Scroll down to Registrar Data and check the email.

Method 6

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Using Email Finder Services

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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.
Some tools ask you to sign up to view full email addresses.^{[1]
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