Jay Westerdal
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Jay Westerdal | |
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Born | Jay Westerdal 1978 Seattle, Washington |
Nationality | American |
Known for | Founder of DomainTools.com |
Spouse(s) | Icy Westerdal (m. 2010) |
Website | http://www.jaywesterdal.com |
Jay Westerdal (born 1978) is a domainer and entrepreneur, best known for his work creating DomainTools.com, a web service that looks up historical ownership of a website. The whois service was integrated into Google's onebox in May 2008.[1] He later sold the company in 2008 for a reported $16–$18 million.[citation needed] He is a technology blogger.[2]
Career[]
Westerdal started Name Intelligence/DomainTools in 2002 in his parent's garage. In May 2005, Jay started the domain conference "Domain RoundTable".[3] He later sold DomainTools in 2008 to Thought Convergence, Inc. The following year, after being acquired, he left TCI.
Writing[]
Westerdal's personal blog covers a wide range of topics, focusing mainly on technology, his mobile lifestyle, and search engine optimization from a personal perspective, in contrast to the DomainTools blog, where he wrote in an official capacity. He contributed to the EPP Protocol RFC 4930.[4]
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- 1978 births
- Living people
- American bloggers
- American company founders
- People from Mercer Island, Washington
- Technology company founders