Gimado - Free Business Email Lookup

gimado.com

13 points·Hirvesh··6 comments

It's easier to simply google @example.com to find examples of email addresses from the business on the web. 90% of the time that gives you the standard of how they construct the left side of the email address. If that doesn't work a few educated guesses will get you there.

Saw this the other day on reddit, tried it a few times with minor success.

How does this work? How is the confidence value calculated?

Was wondering the same thing. Even tried finding a blog, but looks like it's a pre-drop domain from a previous venture (http://mashable.com/2008/02/01/gimado/)

It does SMTP requests, trying to send mail (and aborting) to check the emails. It first tries a bogus gqjcqjcbhkjxcg@thedomain.com to see if the server throw an error (and was not config as a catchall), then for Bill Gates, tries : - billgates@ - gatesbill@ - bgates@ - gatesb@ - bill@ ... - bill.gates@ ...

but they don't try bg@thedomain.com

The results also depends of the order of the tests. If you have bill@ that redirects to bill.gates@, as they try bill@ before bill.gates@, it will tell you that bill@ is the address.

Clever, but used by spammers and list makers for years (those who scan whois domain infos and reconstruct the email with your name and the domain).

Man, I would pay money for this. Its exactly what I need. Who made this?

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