About Jay Westerdal
Born 1978. Jay Westerdal is an American academic.
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. He later sold the company in 2008 for a reported $16–$18 million. He is a technology blogger.
Career 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.
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American blogger
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Jay Westerdal was born on 5 March 1978 in Seattle.
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Jay Westerdal is an academic.
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