Telephone and Address

Directories on the Web listing telephone, fax numbers, street addresses and e-mail addresses for people and businesses.

Resources in this category:

AllPages.com
http://www.allpages.com/

This online yellow pages is well-organized and easy to browse. Information for most U.S. towns and cities is available. Users can search by state or topical category.

The AmeriCom Long Distance Area Decoder
http://decoder.AmeriCom.com/

Use this search engine to look up telephone area and country codes for any location in the world, or enter a code and see what areas it covers.

Any Who Directories
http://www.tollfree.att.net/tf.html

Browsable and searchable electronic form of AT&T's 800 number directory

AnyWho Directories
http://www.anywho.com/

"AT&T Labs is trialing an advanced World Wide Web-based directory service site, AnyWhoSM Directory Service, which integrates traditional business and consumer white and yellow pages telephone listings with enhanced, Internet-based contact information such as E-mail Addresses and Web Site URLs. Toll Free and FAX numbers can also be listed. . . Unlike other services, AnyWho does not force users to perform searches across multiple directories to find traditional and enhanced business listing information. All contact information is combined into a single listing, giving businesses an integrated electronic and real-world presence on the Web. An integrated map service, provided by MapsOnUs , featuring detailed map generation and driving directions makes locating a business as simple as a few mouse clicks. The service features over 90 million consumer and over 10 million business listings."

AT&T Directories
http://www.att.com/directory/index.html

Use this site to find a business by category or by name, to find a person by name, or a person or business by phone number.

Big Book
http://www.bigbook.com/

Listings for businesses in the United States. You can search by business name, location, and/or category. Listings include address, phone number, and a street map showing the business' location.

Canada Post
http://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pcl/bin/advanced-e.asp

This website allows you to find postal codes in Canada or find Province information from postal codes.

Canada411
http://www.canada411.ca/

Address and phone listings for over 12 million people and businesses in Canada. Search in English or French.

Canadian Postal Code Lookup Service
http://www.westminster.ca/eng/custom3.html

Enter Canadian address information and get back the appropriate postal code. Also has an American zip code lookup.

Click-411
http://www.click411.com/

This site includes White Pages and Yellow Pages for the United States and Canada and features reverse phone-number or address, area, or zip code look-up.

Dutch PTT Telecom Phonebook
http://www.detelefoongids.nl/

This is a searchable listing of business and home phone numbers in the Netherlands.

InfoSpace
http://www.infospace.com/

Directory includes white pages, yellow pages, email addresses, classified ads, eshopping, government, city guide, international information. Also includes a reverse telephone lookup for finding names and addresses from phone numbers. You can then immediately link to directions and a map of the location.

International Yellow Pages and White Pages
http://www.wayp.com/

"Contains a list of links to online yellow pages and white pages sorted by the country and region."

Japan Directory
http://web-jpn.org/links/index.html

A subsection of the Japan Information Center, this website is a directory of organizations and associations in Japan. Includes address, e-mail, fax and phone numbers.

MapQuest Yellow Pages
http://www.yellowpages.com/

The Yellow Pages directory powered by Mapquest.

MyPages.com
http://www.mypages.com/

Easily searchable by category and geography, this site offers information yellow pages about local businesses and provides a forum for individuals to review businesses. It also offers city guides for most cities and towns.

National Address Server
http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/adserv.html

Usable only with forms-capable browsers. You may input any U.S. address without its zip code and the server will return the zip + 4 code.

PeopleSpot.com
http://www.peoplespot.com/

"PeopleSpot.com simplifies the search for the best and most useful information about people on the Web. We hope that our site will enable you to quickly and easily connect with others, reunite with friends and family, find people who share your interests, learn about notable individuals, discover ways to help others and much more... From PeopleSpot.com, tap into biographies, vital records, population and demographic statistics, e-mail, phone, reverse and professional directories, newsgroups, chat rooms, family and military networks, missing person data, genealogy resources and much more. "

PhoneSpell
http://www.phonespell.org/

This site allows someone to type in a 6 to 10 digit phone number and see what words the digits spell.

Reverse Phone Directory
http://www.reversephonedirectory.com/

Reverse lookup telephone numbers by using reverse phone books to find a person's name and street address.

SuperPages.com
http://www.superpages.com/

Search for U. S. businesses using keyword or business name in this online yellow pages directory offered by Verizon. You can also use reverse lookup, search by category, within a distance, or by map.

Switchboard
http://www.switchboard.com/

A "free nationwide residential and business directory." Besides containing address and phone information, e-mail addresses are included for registered users.

Teldir
http://www.infobel.com/teldir/default.asp

"Nicknamed the mother of all directories, Teldir.com is the reference portal for anyone looking for a national telephone directory: it contains white and yellow pages links to more than 170 countries."

Thomas Industrial Network
http://www.thomasnet.com/

A regional directory listing suppliers of industrial products and services throughout the United States. Products are divided in 5500 categories, with listings from 19 different regions throughout the country. Includes not only manufacturers, but also service companies, as well as distributors and manufacturer reps. Also includes related government and business resources, industry and professional organizations, and events and trade shows.

The Ultimate White Pages
http://www.theultimates.com/white/

This website provides search interfaces for several of the telephone directories on the web. (It does not search them all at once, but provides several interfaces on one page.) It includes a reverse directory search in which one can search by phone number instead of by name.

WorldPages
http://www.worldpages.com/

Search residential, business and government phone directories from over fifty countries world-wide.

Yahoo! People Search
http://people.yahoo.com/

Find people by searching for telephone numbers (United States only) and e-mail addresses.

ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information
http://www.usps.com/ncsc/ziplookup/lookupmenu.htm

US Zip Code information from the proverbial horse's mouth (the US Postal Sevice). You can look up the Zip+4 code for any address, or enter a city and state to see all Zip Codes associated with that city.