Jay Westerdal
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{{Short description|American domainer and entrepreneur}}
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| name = Jay Westerdal
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| birth_name = Jay Westerdal
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1978}}
| birth_place = Seattle, Washington, U.S.
| known_for = Founder of DomainTools.com
| spouse = {{marriage|Icy Westerdal|2010}}
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| website = {{URL|http://www.jaywesterdal.com}}
| caption = Next to an Airplane, 2009
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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.[http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/04/google-whois-onebox.html DomainTools integrated into Google] He later sold the company in 2008 for a reported $16–$18 million.{{cite web|url=https://www.domainmagnate.com/news/trafficz-to-buy-domaintools/|title=TRAFFICZ TO BUY DOMAINTOOLS|date=April 24, 2008|website=domainmagnate.com}} He is a technology blogger.{{cite web|url=http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/01/25/rumor-google-ending-adsense-for-domain-tasting |title=Google Ending AdSense For Domain Tasting |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100228202703/http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/01/25/rumor-google-ending-adsense-for-domain-tasting |archivedate=2010-02-28 }}
Career
Westerdal started Name Intelligence/DomainTools in 2002 in his parents' garage. In May 2005, Jay started the domain conference "Domain RoundTable".[http://www.dnjournal.com/columns/cover050905roundtable.htm Conference Review on DNjournal.com] 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
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.jaywesterdal.com}}
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Category:American company founders