The Nosy List

by David Brager

The internet is full of liars and rip-off artists. For a complete understanding of what happened to me, click here. It was after this event that spurned me to find a way to check the reality of people on the web. I try to find everything I can to support a history of internet activity before I begin to consider the reality of a person on the web. This list of links to public information is only about 1/3 of the work. You need to learn to think in gross analysis of all sorts of seemingly un-interconnected data to realize that everything here is somehow connected through time on the web, for there are times and dates on almost all transactions to prove that someone was there at one time. You can thus track behavior by tracking time.

DNS lookups allow you to find the ownership of websites.
Just enter the domain name and extention (such as yahoo.com)

WHOIS DNS Database
Welcome to APNIC
Query the RIPE Whois Database
Government-Wide Registration Service
Department of Defense Network Information Center
Home
ARIN: Whois

ARIN is different. You'll need to enter the numeric websites here. Thus, if you receive email and you find that it's from something like "12.71.445.56", you can check it at ARIN (though 12.71.445.56, at this time (May '03) goes nowhere.

In Google Advanced Newsgroups Search, use the AUTHOR section and sort by the extension of the email address, such as "@cbs.com" to discern a company's official email address pattern. Once you have a pattern, go find the name of the CEO or any member of management you want and try to write email to that person. Celebrities may not have email that works by this method, mostly because they're smart enough to want creative control over their email boxes, but it does work for most levels of staff.

With this ebay link, click it, and then, when it's in the Location area of your browser, edit the end of the string with the email address of the person with whom you want information. If that person has done business at Ebay (You need to have a registered account at Ebay to use this), it will disclose data which can help you determine how good or bad this person does business based on their track record.

The Ultimates!

This is my favorite place to start looking for people on the web. It has both white pages and email lookups listed in parallel, so when you enter data in the farthest left-hand columns, it replicates that information in all boxes, so you can, with the click of a button, easily search through Yahoo, InfoSpace, Bigfoot, and other sites, meticulously, though manually.

Search SS Death Index

This is THE first place to go looking for an old friend. If you find someone here, you know to stop looking. I found my pal Cyril Puffert (the great "Puff, the Magic Dragon" from the Dragon's Lair BBS fame, circa early 1980's) when I went looking for him. It tells where someone died and in what year. Elvis Presley is listed, in case you're curious.

Boards Message Boards - Advanced Search

If you are looking for a specific person with a specific last name, a lot of people have stopped at the Ancestry.com website to look for their families, so you can often find volunteered data at this site.

Businesses/World/Translations

RJL Software - Internet Software - IServer Lookup

This site allows you to discover server information about a website. It's really not that important to most people, but it can explain why a server is slow.

NADAguides.com - Used Car Blue Book Values, New Car Prices

This link is for the best in used car data. I happen to believe that it's a viable data site.

Invisible-web.net - Searchable databases and specialized search engines

This site gives you links to websites that have removed themselves from search engines. Thus, as the site explains, they represent the "invisible web."

BBB Information System (BIS) - Search Results

This is the Better Business Bureau database. If you want to know if some one company has a bad reputation, this is a good source of data.

This site has the most consistent on-web translation software for eight or more European languages as well as Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Russian to English.

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The Nosy List

by David Brager

Search engine advanced sites allow extensive data handling control.

People & Semi-Private Info collation from public sources.

Businesses/World/Translations

Yahoo

Reverse Lookups allow you to get more from less, like addresses from phone numbers.