About

DataLookup.org is no legit organization, and is not made out to be.

We are just small group of friends from different places who been buying and collecting data for long time now. Started because we needed it for own work, then realised how much of it is just sitting out there available to anyone who knows where to look. Domain registrations, public records, databases that already been shared thousand times — none of this is secret, its all already out there.

What we dont understand is this whole industry around it. You have companies like BeenVerified, Spokeo, Intelius, Whitepages — they take data from public records, voter registrations, phone directories, other data brokers, and they package it up and sell it back to you behind paywall. Spokeo already got fined $800,000 by FTC for selling peoples data to employers without following the law and for posting fake reviews of their own service. Intelius had to pay $1.3 million settlement because they were tricking people into subscriptions — made $62 million from it before getting caught. These are not small things.

Then you have the "free" sites like FastPeopleSearch and TruePeopleSearch. Krebs on Security did whole investigation and found out the founders listed on these sites are completely fake. Stock photos from Adobe used as profile pictures, made up names, domains registered through Alibaba Cloud in Beijing. Nobody knows who actually runs them. They exist to collect your searches and redirect you to the paid sites through affiliate links, making money on every click. So your data is being handled by anonymous operators in China and you dont even know it.

All of these companies require your credit card to use. Some of them make it almost impossible to cancel or opt out. And they get the data for basically nothing — scraping public records, buying in bulk from other brokers for pennies per record — then charge you $20-30 a month to look at it. Congress even put out report saying data brokers cost consumers tens of billions of dollars. But they keep going because nobody stops them.

So we made this different. We collect the same type of data, we index it, we make it searchable through fast API. But we dont ask who you are. You pay with crypto, we give you access. No KYC, no credit card on file, no real name needed. We dont care if you are journalist, investigator, skip tracer, hacker, or just regular person who wants to see what data is out there about themselves. Your business is your business. We are not here to judge what you do with publicly available information. At end of the day, anyone who signs up to BeenVerified or Spokeo could be anyone too — a journalist could be stalker, a "background check" could be anything. These companies dont actually verify what their users do with the data either, they just pretend to care so they look good. We dont pretend. We just give you access and move on.

Our morales are simple and we actually follow them. If we have your data and you want it gone — email us and we remove it, no questions asked, no games, no "processing fee" like other sites charge you. We will search everything we have, show you the results, and delete whatever you want deleted. Permanently. Not like Whitepages where you opt out and your data comes back in few months because they just scrape it again. When we delete, its gone. And we also add your email to blocklist so when we import new datasets in future, your records get skipped automatically. You ask once, you are removed forever. Not just until next database update.

We are not corporation. We dont have legal department or PR team or investors. No shell company in Delaware, no fake founders with stock photos. Just few people who think if this data is already out there for anyone to buy, then accessing it should not require giving up your own privacy in the process.