How Does Email Finding Differ from Email Verification?
While the ZeroBounce Email Finderⓘ uses email verification during the search, the two services differ in the following ways.
Email verification determines the validity of an email address. In other words, once you have an email address, you can use email verification to determine if an actual person uses it. You can and should verify a list of email addresses to avoid unnecessary email bounces.
Email Finding features multiple processes that help search for a person’s email address using key data points. You can perform an email finderⓘ search just by providing a company domain. The email finderⓘ then guesses and tests possible email address patterns for the provided email domain. This search does not involve email verification.
The ZeroBounce Email Finderⓘ, however, incorporates its email validationⓘ technology into the email-finding process. The email finderⓘ searches for possible address patterns whenever you provide a domain and the contact's name. Then, it will attempt to verify different addresses in real time until it yields a valid result.
Do all email finders use email verification?
No. In fact, the ZeroBounce Email Finderⓘ is the only email finderⓘ that guarantees a valid email address.
Most email finders merely do the guesswork described above, the initial, basic step involved with email finding. Because email verification does not take place, there is nothing to guarantee that the email address is valid.
Thanks to our proprietary internal technologies, the ZeroBounce Email Finderⓘ can search for patterns and verify emails in real time. It also preserves our existing customers' privacy and security rights as it never uses stored or processed data to provide email finderⓘ search results.
Can I trust email finding results that don’t use email verification?
Using an address found with email finding without email verification poses a risk to your email deliverability.
Even if the email finder provides a probable email address pattern for the provided company domain, there’s no guarantee that it’s still in use. Employees frequently switch roles and leave for new jobs, leaving once-valid emails outdated. The company may also choose to update its email address format.
The following can happen to an outdated email address:
- Becomes invalid
- Remains valid but provides zero engagement as it has no owner
- Repurposed as a catch-all
- Repurposed as a spam trap by blacklist services
All of these scenarios negatively impact your sender reputation and email deliverability. They’re little more than dead ends and provide little to no benefit to your email marketing efforts.
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