Jay Westerdal (born 1978) is an American
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. He later sold the company in 2008 for a reported $16–$18 million.
He is a technology
blogger
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.
Career
Westerdal started Name Intelligence/DomainTools in 2002 in his parents' garage. In May 2005, Jay started the domain conference "Domain RoundTable". 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
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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.
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1978 births
Living people
American bloggers
American company founders
People from Mercer Island, Washington
Technology company founders