National listings by the million

• WorldPages--individuals, businesses or business type in U.S. and Canada. You can limit city/state/province/postal code. Very fast and you can create a map of an address' vicinity
• AnyWho Toll-Free Directory--search by business name or category, browse by category. Also includes reverse lookup and e-mail lookup. Formerly the AT&T Directory
• Internet 800 Directory--"hundreds of thousands" or 800 and 888 listings, including all carriers. Search by name, product or number
• Bigfoot--white page, e-mail and yellow page search. You can also search on a first name in a city though results seem incomplete
• InfoSpace--112 million listings in U.S. Yellow pages, white pages, companies online, classifieds, federal/state/local government listings with councils' members and phone numbers
• GTE/Verizon SuperPages--nationwide yellow and white pages. Click on Detailed Search for reverse lookup. The former BigYellow address now goes to this site
• Switchboard--nationwide residential, business and e-mail search
• Questdex Yellow & White Pages--formerly U.S. West. Quite useful for searching a business category in a city or state. Other features include reverse search (click on Advanced Search) and community links by city. Oh, they want you to register now
• The Ultimate White Pages--actually a one-site location for the other national phonebooks; search by name or phone number
• Fonefinder--an odd reverse directory that allows you to input area code, prefix and city for U.S.; otherwise, whole telephone number and country name. Doesn't get to individual name level, but uses could include listing possible prefixes for a given area, and what telecom company services them
• Trackem--Rich Reen has consolidated a number of telephone and e-mail search tools on this page
• World's Phonebooks--every nation possible, although most smaller ones sport a fax directory only
• Infobel International Directories--directory of international directories. Many are fax or trade directories. You must first select a country from the pull-down menu

International: North and South America

• Seccion Amarilla-Indice--Mexican yellow pages, with link to white pages also. Yellow pages also have English version
• Canada 411--search for individuals or businesses in English or French
• Yellow.ca--Canadian business pages, search by business name or classification. Also includes search for individuals, or reverse lookup
• MyBC: British Columbia Yellow Pages--search by business name or category. This one is quite fast
• Caribbean Telephone Directory--separate directories for the various nations and island principalities. Search is by name only. The directories have varying update schedules
• Costa Rica In-Focus--Costa Rican telephone book, individuals and businesses by name
• Lista Telefonica--links to phone books for various states in Brazil, in Portuguese. Centralization appears to lie far in the future
• Paginas Doradas--yellow pages for Argentina, searchable by business name or type
• Chile Business Directory--not searchable but browsable

International: Europe

• Eurocall World Directories: Europe--yellow-page search in various countries
• Europages business directory--half a million companies in 30 countries. Search by product or company name
• British Telecom--cumbersome registration, then you get only ten free enquiries. BT wraps up the Worst Online Telephone Directory award once again
• Les Pages Zoom--French electronic phonebook works quickly and easily. If only those across the channel would emulate this
• InfoBel--four million businesses and residences in Belgium
• Pagine Gialle--Italian yellow pages
• Paginas Amarillas--Spain's yellow pages, 1,500,000 listings y una ventana pop-up
• Tele Danmark--Danish. Individuals and businesses, by name or reverse number search
• Gula Sidorna--Swedish yellow pages, in Swedish
• De Telefoongids: Zoeken op Naam--personal and business name search for Netherlands
• Complete Greek Phone Directory--or so it says. Interface in Greek or English
• Telefonski Imenik--Croatia. Available in several languages including English

International: Asia and Oceania

• Australian White pages and Yellow pages
• Telecom New Zealand--search for people by name, businesses by name or category. You can narrow by region or search the whole country
• The White Pages of Fiji--simple name search, for all of Fiji or by city
• 1BillionIndians.com--but how many have telephones? Likeable interface allows search for individuals with options for nickname, family/friends, schools/colleges/workplace, and limiters for age and sex!
• Sri Lanka Telecom Directory--persons by name, businesses by name or broad category, limitable by region
• China Big--quite efficient yellow pages for China, searchable by company name or business type, with full names and addresses given. English version available via upper right corner
• Townpage: Japan Telephone Directory--English version of Japanese yellow pages, searchable by company name or business type. For Japanese version, chop English off the URL
• Korea YellowPages Directory--another one, in English, that seems to do the job
• Korea Infogate--combination business pages and category browse, in English
• Telekom Malaysia Yellow & White pages--wins points for longevity. You must register though, for free

International: Africa and Middle East

• Israel's Yellow Pages--this site is an umbrella for several directories, none well explained. Complete Israeli Yellow Pages is in Hebrew. The Internet Israeli Yellow Pages is in English but is much less comprehensive
• Bezeq 144--Israeli directory. You'll likely have to accept download of software to read characters

Specialized

• Reverse Directory via Langenberg.com--or actually, links to various services' reverse lookups, by address and/or phone number. R! means clear or reset
• Pay Phone Directory--thousands of payphone numbers listed by state/city/address. Greatest number are in Washington, since that's where "El Jefe" apparently resides; a good many for Oregon also
• Airlines Toll-free--with links to some

E-mail

• FAQ: How to Find People's E-mail Addresses--useful links and techniques
• The Ultimate E-mail Directory--one-page access to several e-mail searches
• MESA: MetaEmailSearchAgent--"largest e-mail address book available" searches several engines at once
• WhoWhere?--locate e-mail addresses, phone numbers, businesses on the net
• Internet Address Finder--another net directory. 6.7 million listings
• Usenet Addresses Service--e-mail addresses collected from usenet postings
• Allwhois.com--find the humanoid behind "any domain name in the world"
• Betterwhois.com--this one does the .com, .net and .org names

Phun phone stuph

• Oregon "No Call" List Website--how to register in Oregon to keep your life free of telemarketers. Not free though
• 1010PhoneRates.com--site that compares phones rates within state, state to state, and international, among the various companies
• Caller ID Links--links to FAQs and articles about caller ID, company press releases, sites of companies offering such products
• National telephone/fax and telex codes--straight list by country via the Star*s Family
• 555-1212.com's Fast Area Code Look-up--U.S. & Canada. Search by town name; browse by area code, or browse list by state
• International dialing codes--by country. Most are hyperlinked to additional breakdowns by region
• ACR International Calling Code Directory--via American Computer Resources. This does the same as the above in a straight list
• AmeriCom Long Distance Area Decoder--find area/country code by place, or input code to find area/country--in same search box
• Phone-Man's Homepage--practical matters like wiring, adding jacks, calling for repair, etc. Phone-Man doesn't give his "secret identity"
• Consumer Assistance Handbook: Telephone Information--via the Ohio Consumers' Council, useful consumer info about scams, how to read your bill, how to choose a long distance provider, etc.
• Anatomy of a Phone Call--neat explanation, with pictures, of the technical details behind a telephone call
• North American Numbering Plan Administration--the people who control telephone numbers. Lots of boring stuff
• Phone Number Mnemonic Converter--convert a meaningless seven digits into a ridiculous phrase
• The Telephone Exchange Name Project--lists of the alphanumeric codes used for exchanges before 1963

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