Jay Westerdal

Jay Westerdal
Born Jay Westerdal
March 5, 1978
Seattle, Washington
Residence Mercer Island, Washington
Nationality American
Known for Founder of DomainTools.com
Home town Bellevue, Washington
Spouse(s) Icy Westerdal (m. 2010)
Children 0
Website

http://www.jaywesterdal.com

http://blog.jaywesterdal.com

Jay Westerdal (born 1978) is a domainer, entrepreneur and 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 prominent technology blogger[3] and a frequent speaker at industry events.[4]

Career

Westerdal started Name Intelligence/DomainTools in 2002 in his parent's garage. He later sold DomainTools in 2008 to Thought Convergence, Inc. The following year after being acquired he left TCI. He later became a limited partner at Founders Coop,[5] a Seattle venture capital firm.

Westerdal, originally from Bellevue Washington, worked at a Seattle web startup Interland before founding DomainTools in 2002.

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. Contributed to the EPP Protocol RFC 4930.[6]

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