My visit to company’s offices in Seattle.
Over the holiday weekend I traveled to Seattle for a wedding. Because I can never take a holiday from the domain world, I arranged to visit Name Intelligence’s office while I was there. Name Intelligence, owned by Thought Convergence, operates DomainTools and Spry, a web hosting company.
Friday afternoon I made the short walk from the W Hotel to NI’s offices, located in a non-descript building that used to house a radio studio. DomainTools’ General Manager Susan Prosser gave me a tour of the building, which retains a high tech start-up feel. Name Intelligence leases the bottom floor of the two story building, which is split about 50-50 between offices for Spry and DomainTools. The top floor is currently empty. The building includes standard high tech necessities, such as a game room (apparently part of a 4 pm Friday ritual) and kitchens.
I liked the vibe of the DomainTools area, which is mostly an open room that reminds me of the cohesive environment at my first company out of college. Even at 4 pm on a Friday before a holiday weekend, DomainTools’ developers were hard at work (see photo).
Over the next few days I’m going to write about some of the ways I use DomainTools. Most domainers use DomainTools, but everyone uses it in a different way. I’ll give my take on it throughout the week.
Fred says
Is the empty desk in the front Westerdal’s?
Robbie says
ha ha Fred Nice….
Domaintools.com is a great service – I use it everyday and to think they supply all this whois for free in one easy place that never seems to fail.
Big Thanks To the DomainTools.com Team!
c'mon domains says
Definitely Westerdahl’s desk but is seems he forgot his hawaiian lei hanging on his monitor there. Aloha Jay!
Domain Investor says
When Jay sold NI to TZ for $16. mil, did it include the expensive office furniture and priceless art?
Domain Investor says
Did Jay get married this weekend?
Fred says
Come on DomainInvestor everyone knows THAT would definitely be news
wannadevelop.com says
Hey! Who let in all those guys into my basement?!??
Benson says
Any updates on the current lawsuit problem ?
I hope this matter gets solved among themselves without any further harm and negative news it brought the domain industry.
Andrew Allemann says
No new court documents. I hope they settle it fairly quickly.
PB says
Definitely Westerdahl’s desk but is seems he forgot his hawaiian lei hanging on his monitor there. Aloha Jay!
edna says
I wound up here after finding a Spry IP using netstat. Hmmmm, makes me wonder.