reverse phone lookups

accensi0n

anyone know any way of doin a reverse phone lookup?
thanks,
Eoghan.

Agent Smith

afaik its against the law....

accensi0n

wow, that sucks. anyway if anyone knows of any way pm or send mail to cull@chules.net

Ive read before that they have reverse phone books in library's in the states. I'd love if it was like that in Ireland.

cormie

What exactly is it?

optiplexgx270

using a phone number to find an address correct?

accensi0n

yeah

optiplexgx270

and i second agent smith's afaik

optiplexgx270

what you whan it for

Stalking or something are we?

skywalker

yes it definitely is against the law. the only ones with reverse directories in this country are the guards.

Sponge Bob

what is ENUM then ?

rymus

skywalker wrote:

the only ones with reverse directories in this country are the guards.

in other words... befriend a member of the gardai rather sharpish

accensi0n

I'm sorted then.

Thanks for the replies.

LFCFan

or you could just browse through the entire phone book to find the number There's a job for someone. Scan in all the Irish phone books to a DB and then you could create your own reverse phone number lookup system.

jor el

Some guys did this in the UK I think. The UK Infodisc or something like that. They sell it on CD. I read that what they did was get hire a bunch of people to go through phone books and the voters registry and make a database of everyone in the UK. You can then search this by various headings such as name, postcode, and possibly phone number.

Initially they came up against trouble with the law who said it was illegal, but all the information they used is publicly available to anyone under freedom of info act.

It's a good idea and a pity there isn't something like that here in Ireland too.

eircomtribunal

In Switzerland you can do it. See http://tel.search.ch/

P.

pollyantic

Eircom used to have the phone book on CD.
I dont know if they still have this, but we had a hacked version of it where i worked a few years ago. You could look up names and addresses to go with phone numbers.

Try googling the number. You never know

rubensni

Reverse phone lookup is not against the law. If you call the Eircom operator (dial 10 on a land line) they will look up the number for you. They often ask for a reason though.

bealtine

rubensni wrote: »

Reverse phone lookup is not against the law. If you call the Eircom operator (dial 10 on a land line) they will look up the number for you. They often ask for a reason though.

Wow dragging up a 4 year old thread...overall not a good idea

Tom Young

Sponge Bob wrote: »

what is ENUM then ?

ENUM is TElephone Number Mapping.

In very brief summary it the creation of the telephone number in the DNS.

So it your telephone number was +353-1-666-1111 the ENUM URI would be:

1.1.1.1.6.6.6.1.3.5.3.e164.arpa. In Ireland the ENUM delegation is owned by IENUM under contract from ComReg it is an IEDR and Austrian ENUM operations Joint Venture.

ENUM has a number of pretty nifty uses but we don't yet have applications which are enabled to allow users set their communications profile preference. So in effect on dialing the number if over IP the URI tells the caller what preference the ENUM users wants to be contacted over in priority e.g., SMS, Presence, Voice, SIP etc.

I don't believe this is what the OP was asking about.

Tom

Note: That number I picked as an example, and ENUM can be RevDNS looked up.

rubensni

bealtine wrote: »

Wow dragging up a 4 year old thread...overall not a good idea

And why isn't it a good Idea? It's still relevant.
If you search reverse phone number on Google Ireland this thread shows up, but the information is wrong. People might find it useful, which I believe was the original idea behind the web in the first place.

cgarvey

Just to tidy up the thread, before locking. For ex-directory number holders, they have a right to privacy which is, I believe, covered by legislation. For eircom (or any operator) to reveal those details would be against that legislation.