Jay Westerdal Explained

Jay Westerdal
Birth Name:	Jay Westerdal
Birth Place:	Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Known For:	Founder of DomainTools.com
Website:	http://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

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]

Notes and References

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/04/google-whois-onebox.html DomainTools integrated into Google
Web site: TRAFFICZ TO BUY DOMAINTOOLS. April 24, 2008. domainmagnate.com.
Web site: Google Ending AdSense For Domain Tasting . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100228202703/http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/01/25/rumor-google-ending-adsense-for-domain-tasting . 2010-02-28 .
http://www.dnjournal.com/columns/cover050905roundtable.htm Conference Review on DNjournal.com
Web site: Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP).