Vehicle Identification Number
Every car has a unique vehicle identification number (VIN); the car’s “fingerprint”. While acting as a unique id, VINs also encode information about the car including the country it was manufactured in, the manufacturer, the make, model, year and serial number.
Curious what your car’s VIN number is? VINs can be found on the front left dashboard (viewed from outside the car) or sometimes in the door jam sticker of the driver’s side. If you are buying a car, nearly all car listings have a VIN listed in the vehicle information but few have information about the car’s owner history or crash & incident history. This is where our reverse VIN search can help. ThatsThem links regular VINs to people records so by searching for a VIN number you can get either the current or previous owner’s email, phone and address.
Skip Trace
Skip trace is newer term which has recently come into popularity. When someone says they want to skip trace a record it simply means they are looking to look up additional contact information associated to a person. This could include email, phone, address or other information. This term is especially prevalent to people in the real estate industry, debt collectors and law enforcement who are trying to find people.
Public Record
Public record refers to data that is available online without requiring a user account or being behind a paywall. This includes arrest records, traffic violations, building permits, bankruptcy records, death records, birth records, property records, political donation records and more.
IP Address
IP addresses are the digital analog to your physical home address. When you mail a letter to your parents or ship a birthday present to your friend, the postal service uses the physical address you put on the package or letter to know where it should be shipped. Likewise, when ThatsThem’s server sends you data or you request to watch a video from a streaming service, your IP address is how the internet service provider knows where the data should be routed.
Most people have dynamic IP addresses that change (many times by only a few numbers) periodically. Web services often have static IP addresses which don’t change. Most IP addresses (IPv4) you will see will be 4 numbers separated by a period such as ‘192.168.56.101’. Newer IPv6 addresses have more components and look more complex such as ‘2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334’.
ZIP Code
Zoning Improvement Plan (ZIP) codes are 5-digit geographical regions within a state smaller than a city but larger than a block. ZIP codes were originally used to help the postal office narrow down the geographical region in which letters would be mailed but have become useful as another level of resolution for conducting searches on fairly large geographic regions.
Reverse Search
Name Search - You have the name of a person and are looking to find additional information such as email address, phone number and/or home address.
Email Search - you have an email additional contact information about the person associated with the email. Information you can get back includes a name, home address and phone number.
Address Search - You have an address are looking to get information on the owner or residents of that address. This could include names, email addresses and phone numbers.
Phone Search - You have a phone number and are looking for the person or persons associated who owns it. This information could include names, email addresses and home addresses.
IP Search - You have an IP address and want to find its geographic location as well as a list of people we have seen connected to that IP address recently.
VIN Search - You have a VIN and want to find information about the car such as the model, make, year and contact information of the owner.