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Jay Westerdal

American domainer and entrepreneur

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 2008.2

From Wikipedia’s article on Jay Westerdal (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born Mar 5, 1978.1

About

He later sold the company in 2008 for a reported $16–$18 million. He is a technology blogger.

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Companies

Career

Occupation: academic.4

Westerdal started Name Intelligence/DomainTools in 2002 in his parents' garage. In May 2005, Jay started the domain conference "Domain RoundTable". He later sold DomainTools in 2008 to Thought Convergence, Inc. The following year, after being acquired, he left TCI.

From Wikipedia’s article on Jay Westerdal (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Personal life

  • BornMar 5, 1978, Seattle5
  • CitizenshipUnited States6

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