Jay Westerdal

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American domainer and entrepreneur

Jay Westerdal

Born|

Jay Westerdal

1978 (age 46–47)

Seattle, Washington, U.S.

Known for| Founder of DomainTools.com
Spouse|

Icy Westerdal

(m. 2010)​

Website| www.jaywesterdal.com

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]

## Career

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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

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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

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

## External links

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* Official website

*[m.]: married