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Jay Westerdal

Jay Westerdal

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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.[1] He later sold the company in 2008 for a reported $16–$18 million.[2] He is a technology blogger.[3]

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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".[4] He later sold DomainTools in 2008 to Thought Convergence, Inc. The following year, after being acquired, he left TCI.[2]

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.[5]

References

  1. [1]
    DomainTools integrated into Google
  2. [2]
    "TRAFFICZ TO BUY DOMAINTOOLS". domainmagnate.com. April 24, 2008.
  3. [3]
    "Google Ending AdSense For Domain Tasting". Archived from the original on 2010-02-28.
  4. [4]
    Conference Review on DNjournal.com
  5. [5]
    "Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP)".
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