How to Search For an MSN Email Address Online

There can be nothing more frustrating than losing an email address. If you don't have a copy of it in your own email, you are pretty much left to search for it all on your own. There is yet to be a giant online database of email addresses equivalent to an online version of the Yellow Pages, so if you want to look up a lost MSN email address online, you had better be creative. Here are a few places you can start your search.

If the person you are looking for uses MSN, than there is a fairly good chance that they chat using Microsoft Live Messenger, formally known as MSN Messenger. You should already have this program installed on your computer if you use a Windows based machine, if not, you can download one from the Microsoft website in just a few moments. Once you are online, you can search their database of users to find the person you are looking for. Of course, you will need to know a name or some other piece of information. If not, you are going to have to keep going.

If the email address that you lost was on a piece of paper and you can still read part of it, you can try doing a search engine query for the part you can still see or the part that you can remember. Most people who create a free email account on a network like MSN choose a word or phrase that they can easily remember as an email address or they choose to simply use their name. Try searching for some combination of their name and the @msn.com ending.

If you want a much easier way to search an MSN email address, you should try a reverse email search service online. MSN may be one of the largest and most powerful forces in the world of communications, but they are missing an easy to use email lookup system that millions of people would likely use on a daily basis. Targeted reverse email searches can offer you the lookup services you need without the hassle of searching the internet for results you may not be able to find.

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