The
Nosy List: 2005 edition
By Dave Brager
scrypnosis.com
Domain
Name Server
registration and ownership data
Lookup for those four number websites (like 4.4.16.25)
http://www.arin.net/whois/index.html
Europe websites DNS Lookup
http://www.ripe.net/perl/whois
US Government websites DNS Lookup
http://www.nic.gov/
US Military DNS Lookup
http://www.nic.mil/dodnic/
Internic (international) DNS Lookup
http://www.internic.net/whois.html
Asian Pacific region DNS Lookup
http://www.apnic.net/
Various other DNS lookups
http://www.domains410.com/checkwhoisinfo516.asp
http://verisign-grs.com/whois/
http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois
http://www.domainbank.net/whois_gen.cfm
https://http://www.droa.com/whois.asp
http://www.uwhois.com/cgi/domains.cgi?User=Default
http://www.tucows.com/
http://www.atomintersoft.com/products/alive-proxy/whois/
http://whois.ausregistry.net.au/
David's personal favorite DNS lookup
server
https://joker.com/index.joker
Advanced
Search Engines
Google Advance Search Engines
Google Web search
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en&num=100
Google's Craiglist search
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=+site:craigslist.org&num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&as_qdr=all
Google Image Search
http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en&num=100
Google Scholarly papers search
http://scholar.google.com/
Google USENET newsgroup
archives
http://groups-beta.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en&safe=off&num=100&
Google Advanced News
Headlines search
http://www.google.com/advanced_news_search?hl=en&num=100
People who gave money to the 2004 campaigns (really fantastic private
data for bigwigs)
http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php
Old USENET database for July 1991 and February 1996 data
http://usenet-addresses.mit.edu/
Collective of links to places to find people using the internet
http://www.nettrace.com.au/resource/search/people.html
Sotheby's search for priceless art and artifacts for sale
http://search.sothebys.com/search/quickSearch/k2/Search.jsp?coll=liveOpen
Amazon advanced internet search
http://a9.com/-/search/advSearch
All the Web search
http://www.alltheweb.com/advanced
People
and Personal Information Sources
Find EBAY user feedback for handles (enter their email address to this
link after the equals (=))
http://cgi2.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=
The ULTIMATES people finder
http://www.theultimates.com/
Ancestry info database
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=advancedsearch
Benton County Property Assessor data
http://bentonpropertymax.governmaxa.com/propertymax/
All WA State Employees incomes
http://lbloom.net/
The Social Security Death Index (lets you know if someone is really
dead (try Elvis Presley))
http://www.ancestry.com/ssdi/advanced.htm
Top executives in the UK
http://www.applegate.co.uk/indexes/people/all-a.htm
Resource Discovery Network
http://www.rdn.ac.uk/
US West Dex online
http://www.DexOnline.com
Free people search
http://www.reunitetonight.com/
If you go to this link:
http://www.reunitetonight.com/FreePeopleSearchAgent_v1.exe
You can download a program that will give you addresses and phone
numbers for possible matches for people you're seeking.
US Search (people finder)
preview.ussearch.com/smepreview/preview.jsp
Celebrity email addresses
http://celebrity.addresses.com/celebrity_email.php
Darwin Awards search
http://darwinawards.com/misc/search.html
Miscellaneous
Databases
To add your website (or book site) to internet linkage databases
http://dmoz.org/add.html
Server information for domain names
http://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/internet/iserver/default.shtml
NADA used book values for cars, etc.
http://www.nadaguides.com/
Invisible Web access point
http://www.invisible-web.net/
US Governmental Survey data lookup
http://data.geocomm.com/
Better Business Bureau lookup
http://search.bbb.org/results.html
Babelfish Universal translator
http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn
Swahili to English dictionary
http://www.yale.edu/swahili/
Polish to English
http://www.poltran.com/
Nearly all internet translation sites used from one site.
http://translation.langenberg.com/
If you add a Yahoo handle to the end of this link, it will find you
that person's profile page.
http://edit.my.yahoo.com/config/show_identity?user=
Allows you to anonymously surf the web through their servers (great for
doing research on HATE groups)
http://www.anonymizer.com/
Internet Traffic data
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/main.htm
Internet Broadway Database (for info about shows, actors, theatre,
season, etc.)
http://www.ibdb.com/default.asp
A place to sign up for free trade publications
http://jobnewsletter.tradepub.com/
A great source to the people by the people for the people in various
cities around the US
http://www.craigslist.org/
TriggerStreet, where to upload a 10 minute movie and get reviews
http://s1.triggerstreet.com/gbase/Trigger/BioRight?oid=oid%3A107794
Online dictionary and thesaurus
http://dictionary.reference.com/
List to all the unlisted adult discussion groups at Yahoo
http://www.bitchnporn.com/club-list/
Database of continuity errors in movies
http://www.moviemistakes.com/search.php
Reference of financial terminologies
http://www.investorwords.com/
All sorts of cemetary burial data (especially in US, Washington
counties)
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/
Entertainment Management Association at UCLA website
http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/zone/clubs/ema/WebsitesText.htm
Online Talmud
http://www.come-and-hear.com/talmud/index.html
Online maps
http://maps.yahoo.com/
Reverse
Lookup Databases
Reverse Zip Code lookup
http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/citytown.jsp
Reverse Phone Number lookup
http://www.infospace.com/info/revphone.htm?&actnav=org
Reverse Street Address Lookup
http://www.infospace.com/info/revemail.htm?&actnav=org
Reverse Area Code Lookup
http://www.infospace.com/info/npa/npa.html?&actnav=org
Reverse Email Address Lookup (not that accurate)
http://www.infospace.com/info/revaddr.htm?&actnav=org
Universal Currency Converter
http://www.xe.com/ucc/
UPC (bar code) lookup
http://www.upcdatabase.com/
Universal phone lookup page
http://www.reversephonedirectory.com/
Anywho (AT&T) reverse lookup
http://www.anywho.com/rl.html
Find US Postal Zip+4 and Zip+7 data
http://www.usps.com/ncsc/lookups/lookup_ctystzip.html
All Area Codes lookup
http://members.dandy.net/~czg/lca_index.php
Universal Directory Assistance
http://www.daplus.us/
Computer
Hardware Driver Databases
Find drivers for any hardware
http://www.driversguide.com/
Find Sound Card drivers
http://www.soundcard-drivers.com/