WR Users Guide

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Using Find ID

The Find ID utility is a great way to get information about your memberships, especially if you have memberships that pre-date WebRing.com (before October, 2001). The utility can tell if a specific URL holds membership in one or more Rings and to what ID, if any, the membership is migrated.

This utility is meant only to search for memberships. It does not report IDs that manage Rings. The hub page shows the manager's ID, please look there.

Section 1: How to Use It The utility is very precise, thus it will only return information on what is supplied to it. The best way to explain this is to demonstrate it. Below you see a Find ID form with a URL in it. Click submit and see the lengthy list that returns. (You'll need to click "back" to return to this page)

Notice that each URL contains "http://www.geocities.com/andrea2292/" but actually has a subdirectory attached to it. I want to know about the basic URL "http://www.geocities.com/andrea2292/". To find out more, I must drop the "/", as shown below. Click this submit button and you'll see, in addition to the information which showed up above, I'll find all the memberships associated with the URL "http://www.geocities.com/andrea2292/index.html".

Now that pretty much covers the entire website! I point this out because you could miss a membership or an entire list of them, by getting too exact with the URL. I actually advise the opposite - go simple. Tip #1: Go simple, use a stripped-down version of the URL. With my site continuing as the example, I'd try "geocities.com/andrea2292". No "http://", no "www.", no slashes or file extensions. This will give the most inclusive return.

Keep in mind that if the site has another address that will bring up the same page, you may have to check under that, as well. See the next example:

Hey, there are some more memberships. Who'd have thought it? There is tip #2 - try all variations of your site URL. If you have a domain, redirect URL, long URL, whatever possible addresses there could be. Try them all. Strip them down and try each.

Section 2: How to Read ItBelow I've extracted a few lines of the results from the third search.

User ID	Ring ID	Site ID	URL
	wloff	20	http://www.geocities.com/andrea2292/aol/windfall.html
andrea2292	wloff	1	http://www.geocities.com/andrea2292/hockey/flyers/
althea_sect1	wloff	6	http://www.geocities.com/andrea2292/aol/luke22.html

The left column is where your User ID would appear, if the membership is migrated. If the column is empty, this means the memberships is not associated with a user ID. If you do not have one, create one and migrate the membership. The information you need (Ring ID and Site ID#) are in the subsequent columns. If there is an ID in that column, that is the one you must log in to in order to access the membership. If you don't have the password, use the retrieval utility. If it isn't working for you, read this. As you can see above, there is one unmigrated membership and two memberships, each associated with a different ID.

If you find nothing in your search and you've utilized both tips in section 1, then it's very likely that the membership no longer exists. I say most likely because this database is not rebuilt on a regular basis. If, for some reason, you are trying to research a recent membership, you won't find it. Please don't contact Support. They have no additional means of researching memberships than what is provided to you.

If you are ready, give it a try now. Either click the link at the beginning of this page to go to the actual Find ID page or use the extracted version below.