A small article for those who like to surf the Internet and play scouts. How do I find out the name of the owner of a domain?
Despite the fact that this information is confidential, we have found ways to find out.
We will talk about these options in our article. Why do you need it? First of all, it is interest. Perhaps you want to find justice for a person stealing articles, ideas, and so on from your site. Or you want to hire a person for work, but there are no contacts for communication.
The first method and the most famous - we look at information about the domain through the domain name registrar who.is.
Obvious ways
1. Go to the who.is website and type in the domain you want to know about in the search bar. Let's start with the fact that through this service you can find out the email and phone number of the owner with sufficient luck. If the domain name registrar has chosen not to withhold information.
2. Trying to communicate in the obvious way.
Send a message to the domain registrar with a request to give us the contact details of the site owner or contact him. Or we write a tempting offer to the email specified in who.is. It is not known whether the e-mail specified during domain registration is correct and with what regularity the site owner checks it. You can apply social engineering skills, introduce yourself as an investor or administrator of a large site, offer to buy advertising at a bargain price. Having obtained the mail of the former or current owner of the site, we can rummage through forums and services about selling domains and find information about it. When we find this ad, we find out the list of possible buyers, usually they are displayed. You can also find out the owner of a domain in this way.
Social engineering
3. Did you get mail? Looking for other sites he manages.
Why do we need to know who owns a domain? Perhaps he left information about himself on other sites or maintains a personal blog. And you can easily find out the data about it by writing as indicated in paragraph 2. You can do this on the website domainiq.com.
4. We turn to the hoster to find out the owner of the domain.
Hostadvice.com is here to help. The main thing is to justify why you need information about the owner of the domain. SI (social engineering) comes into play again. You can introduce yourself as an employee of the company who wants to order advertising, or a cute girl who is in love with the articles on the site and, therefore, the owner.
Help search engines
5. Information about the creators of the file is public.
Google will help us. This search engine can search not only sites, but also files of certain formats: doc, ppt, xls, pdf, rtf, swf. An example of a request to Google for doc filesfrom the site "Lepra" - filetype:doc site:lepra.ru. And find out who owns the domain.
6. File for search engine robots.
Looking in the robot.txt file for files like: members, member, uchastniki and stuff like that. This file contains information about site users. You may come across pages of participants with photos and personal data. As a rule, robot.txt is located in the root directory of the site, but there may be exceptions.
7. Searchable pages in the sitemap.xml file.
Unlike the previous file, this one is intended for the Google search engine. There may be differences. For example, there you can find a page with contacts, which the administrator deliberately removed from the main page of the site in order to maintain confidentiality. But you can find out the owner of the domain on this page.
8. Domain related addresses.
There is an interesting service emailhunter.co, which, according to its own known principles, calculates which email addresses can be associated with a given domain.
9. Looking for sites linking to the domain.
Use any backlink checker. Perhaps there are links from social media profiles to this site, and one of them will be owned by the owner.
10. There is an interesting service that can determine the address of the owner and the model of his mobile phone from a photo, if he took this photo from him, findface.ru is the address of this service.
11. Identification of the owner by photo with his face.
There is a small chance, provided thatthe site is small, you can find a photo of the owner in his pictures, perhaps, once, by negligence, he uploaded it there, and then forgot to delete it. But "Google" does not forget this, you can search through the pictures that are on the site using this search engine.
Digging into the code
12. We are looking for comments in the source code of the pages.
Go to the site, type Shift+Command+U or right-click on the pop-up menu to select "Show page code" or "Show source code". Variations may vary. The main thing is to find the right one. We are looking for js scripts, perhaps they are written by the site owner himself, his vanity will help us. The person who wrote the script will most likely indicate his nickname in such a file. And already by the nickname you can recognize the owner of the domain.
