Name Intelligence
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| Type: | Privately held |
| Industry: | Internet |
| Founded: | 1999 |
| Founder(s): | Jay Westerdal |
| Headquarters: | Bellevue, Washington |
| Country: | USA |
| Website: | Name Intelligence.com |
| Blog: | Domain Tools Blog |
| Key People | |
| Jay Westerdal, CEO & President
Ammar Kubba, CSO | |
Name Intelligence offers a variety of tools for domain management, solutions for centralized domain informationsm intellectual property protection, and a semantic name suggestion technology.In 2008, the company became a subsidiary of Thought Convergence, Inc., a company specializes in providing domain information, management, monetization and development tools and technologies for the domain name industry.[1]
Products & Services[edit | edit source]
Name Intelligence products include Domain Roundtable, an annual conference uniting domain industry professionals and tech savvy individuals focusing on domain assets and new technologies and products in the online marketplace;[2] Reverse IP, is the easiest way to find all the .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us, and .info websites hosted on a given IP address; Whois History and Whois Search, gives access to a large data base of historical whois records as well as Front Page Information, Indexed Data, Server Data, Registry Data via DomainTools;[3] Domain Registration Directory and Mark Alert.
In addition, Name Intelligence also provides Domain Insurance to protect the domain owners from domain thefts.[4]
Name Intelligence and ICANN[edit | edit source]
In 2005, jay Westerdall CEO of Name Intelligence wrote to ICANN president Paul Twomey and shared its comments regarding the re-bidding process of the .net gTLD, Westerdall cited, "It is not an appropriate time to change the vendor servicing the .NET GTLD without creating adverse impact to what is currently a stable and predictable resource, and that it might be a more responsible, pragmatic, and appropriate course of action to reconsider the vendor at the next contact renewal option." [5]
References[edit | edit source]
ICANNWiki: Content Guide | Documentation | Development Categories: Articles needing attention | Candidates for deletion Projects: Internet & Digital Governance Library