Access Details of Residential Phone Numbers

This is the age of information; an age where information, be it personal or private, is easily available. Various acts and laws make it legal to host a varied amount of private and personal information on the public domain. Residential telephone number listings too are available for public viewing and it is easy to locate a person who is featured in the white phone directory.

Reasons to Search the Residential Phone Directory

You may need to look up residential phone numbers for a variety of reasons: if you have misplaced someone’s phone number and want to get in touch with the person or if you need to do a reverse phone lookup.

A reverse phone lookup is needed when you have a phone number, maybe an obscure-looking number that is scribbled at the back of the phone diary, and want to know who it belongs to. You may have the number of a person but have lost all contact with him/her. So you would need to conduct a reverse phone lookup at the phone directory, white pages, or people directory to obtain his/her present residential address. Or you may need to do a reverse phone lookup to cross-check to whom a particular phone number belongs to before you dial the number. This would save you rounds of apologies and avoid cases of mistaken identities.

Residential Phone Numbers Search Procedure

The white pages directory is the best channel to search for residential phone numbers. There are several web sites that stock white phone directories. Most of these sites offer their services for free, although you will not find information on unlisted phone numbers here.

You will need to provide at least the last name of a person whose phone number you are searching. If you are doing a reverse phone lookup, these sites will usually return these bits of information against your query: the name of the phone number owner, the residential address, and a list of other residential phone numbers in some cases.

There are other web sites that charge a fee for conducting a phone number search for you. Amongst these, there are some that allow you to carry out as many residential phone numbers searches as you want after you have registered with them and made a one-time payment. There are some other web sites that allow you to look up only once, but of course, their fees are much less.

There are also other modes to search residential phone numbers. You may wish to obtain information about residential phone numbers straight from the horse’s mouth, that is, from the phone companies. These companies are however, bound by laws that do not allow them to divulge information related to phone numbers and their owners, for free. This is mainly due to security and privacy reasons and also to ensure that information obtained from these sources is not used for illegal purposes like stalking. You need a valid credit card to be able to use these services. 

Residential phone numbers are usually easy to acquire. This is sensitive information and the onus is on you to use it responsibly.