The Domain Search helps you find professional email addresses associated with a domain, company name, or website.
How to use the Domain Search
Go to the Domain Search page and enter a domain name into the search bar in your dashboard.
If you don’t know the domain, type the company name, Hunter will suggest matching domains for you to pick from.
Once selected, Hunter shows a list of contacts associated with that domain, including names, job titles, and other details.
Email addresses aren’t revealed by default. You choose which emails to reveal.
Credits are only used when you reveal an email, giving you full control. 1 credit is used for each revealed email.
What information can you find in the Domain Search?
Hunter provides two types of data when available:
Contact Details
For each contact, along with the professional email you can see:
Full name
Job title
Department
Location
LinkedIn profile
Twitter profile
Sources (where the data was found online)
ℹ️ Email addresses are only revealed when you choose to reveal them. Each reveal costs 1 credit.
Company Details
Hunter also retrieves information about the company, including:
Company description
Social media links
Industry
Headcount
Location
Company type
Technologies used on the website
Similar companies (paid plans only)
Follow company option for updates on new emails, funding rounds, and more
Sources for emails found in Domain Search
In the Domain Search, the sources for each email address are always visible.
After revealing an email address, click the arrow next to the source count to expand them.
Each source is an active link showing where and when the information was found.
This ensures full transparency and traceability of every email found in the Domain Search.
How to apply filters in the Domain Search
You can filter Domain Search results by job title, department, location, verification status, email type (personal or generic), required fields (like phone numbers), and even hide already saved leads.
This gives a clear overview without listing every single department, but it covers all the main filter categories.
Available filters:
Job Title: Show emails by job titles (choose one or multiple).
Verification status: Filter emails by their current verification status. Possible statuses to filter by are Valid, Accept-all, and Unknown.
Email Type:
Generic email addresses are role-based email addresses, like contact@ or support@.
Personal email addresses are professional email addresses of people inside an organization, like personal.name@hunter.com
Department: Filter emails by departments such as Executive, Sales, Marketing, HR, IT, Finance, and more. You can choose one or multiple departments.
Location: Search by city, state, country, region, continent, or economic area.
Required fields: You can use this filter to show only contacts that have:
Full Name
Job Title
Phone Number (only available for personal emails - phone numbers are linked only to personal emails, not generic ones).
Saved Leads: Filter results to hide leads you've previously saved to your Hunter Leads list.
ℹ️ Full list of supported departments: Executive, IT/Engineering, Finance, Management, Sales, Legal, Support, HR, Marketing, Writing & Communication, Education, Arts & Design, Medical & Health, Operations & Logistics.
Finding Decision Makers in the Domain Search
Domain Search makes it easy to focus on leadership roles within a company:
Click the Decision Makers tab to view senior contacts (CEOs, VPs, Directors, and more).
Combine this view with filters for Job Title, Verification Status, Email Type, Department, Location, or Required Fields to narrow results.
Reveal only the emails you want, so your credits are spent on the most relevant contacts.
👉 Learn more about using decision maker and other filters in this article.
How to find a specific person's email?
If you know the name of the person you’re looking for:
Enter the full name in the search box after starting a Domain Search.
Hunter will show the contact and the corresponding email address if available, along with the verification status.
How do I know if an email is valid? What is the confidence score?
When you reveal an email in Hunter, you’ll see one of two indicators:
Verification Status
Most emails show a status: Valid, Accept-all, or Unknown.
Valid means the address passed our checks. You don’t need the Confidence Score here.
Accept-all or Unknown means the domain or mailbox can’t be fully confirmed.
ℹ️ You can check the full list of possible statuses here.
Confidence Score
The score estimates the likelihood an email is deliverable. It is most useful for Accept-all and Unknown emails.
What informs the score:
Number and quality of public sources
Historical verification results and technical checks
How to read it: higher is better. A score of 90%+ indicates a strong likelihood of delivery, but it isn’t a guarantee.
Tip: For a real-time verification check, use the "Verify email address" button or use Hunter's Email Verifier. Both actions will use 0.5 credit for each email.
ℹ️ You can find more information on accept all emails and how to use them here.
How to reveal and export email addresses
After reviewing the list of contacts found for a domain or company:
You can select individual contacts or bulk select multiple contacts.
Click Reveal Email Address to reveal emails -> 1 credit per email revealed.
To export the emails found as CSV:
Select the contacts you want (single contacts, full departments, or all results).
Click Export as CSV → the file will download directly to your computer.
Emails you export are revealed automatically in Hunter and saved to your Leads.
ℹ️ Emails you export to a CSV file will automatically be revealed in the application as well and saved to your leads.
Saving emails to Leads and adding emails to Campaigns
When you reveal emails in Domain Search, they are automatically saved to your Leads. A notification at the bottom confirms how many were saved.
Save to Leads
Save single or multiple emails (with contact details) to a specific list by clicking Add to a list.
You can also bulk-save emails (by contact selection, department, or all results) using the blue actions menu next to Reveal.
You can choose the lead list you want to save the emails to using the dropdown menu.
Add to Campaigns
You can directly add revealed emails to an existing email campaign or to a new email campaign with a simple click.
Use Add to a campaign to add leads to an existing campaign or create a new one.
Once revealed, leads can be managed later, used in Campaigns, or exported as CSV.
Once revealed, leads can be managed later, used in Campaigns, or exported as CSV.
Quick copy
To copy a single email address, just click on it.
How to follow a company for updates?
You can also follow the companies you want to find emails for. This creates a new Company Signal.
Signals notify you when:
A company receives a new round of funding.
A company posts new job opportunities.
New email addresses become available for that company.
This way, you can keep track of key updates without running repeated searches.
How Hunter credits work in the Domain Search
Hunter uses a credit system for finding and verifying emails. Knowing how credits are charged helps you optimize your usage.
Credit usage in the Domain Search
1 credit = 1 revealed email
Revealing a personal email costs 1 credit.
All generic emails for a domain (e.g., info@, contact@) can be revealed in bulk with just 1 credit total.
Revealed emails are automatically saved to your Leads at no additional cost.
No charge for empty results: If no emails are found, no credits are deducted.