Jay Westerdal
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Jay Westerdal | |
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| Born | Jay Westerdal 1978 (age 45–46) Seattle,Washington,U.S. |
| Known for | Founder of DomainTools |
| Spouse |
Icy Westerdal (m.2010) |
| Website | http:// jaywesterdal |
Jay Westerdal(born 1978) is an Americandomainerand entrepreneur, best known for his work creatingDomainTools,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.[2]He is a technologyblogger.[3]
Career
[edit]Westerdal started Name Intelligence/DomainTools in 2002 in his parents' garage. In May 2005, Jay started the domain conference "Domain RoundTable".[4]He later sold DomainTools in 2008 to Thought Convergence, Inc. The following year, after being acquired, he left TCI.[2]
Writing
[edit]Westerdal's personal blog covers a wide range of topics, focusing mainly on technology, his mobile lifestyle, andsearch engine optimizationfrom a personal perspective, in contrast to the DomainTools blog, where he wrote in an official capacity. He contributed to the EPP Protocol RFC 4930.[5]
References
[edit]- ^DomainTools integrated into Google
- ^ab"TRAFFICZ TO BUY DOMAINTOOLS".domainmagnate.April 24, 2008.
- ^"Google Ending AdSense For Domain Tasting".Archived fromthe originalon 2010-02-28.
- ^Conference Review on DNjournal
- ^"Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)".