Simonetta Batteiger Brings us Sedo's Future

Simonetta Batteiger is the head of Finance and Sales for North America for Sedo. She's also the head of parking, but they took that out of the title when she succeeded Eben Smith. (Eben continues to work for Sedo.) You'll see in this interview that Simonetta is more than just a pretty face. She talks in depth about Sedo's strategy of simple landing pages and answers questions about why some accounts get cancelled.  I found her to be both charming and intelligent, and she seems to be off to a great start.

The Jay Westerdal Flap

Most of the domain blogs have covered the dispute between Thought Convergence, parent company of Trafficz and Jay Westerdal the founder of DomainTools.  I'm not sure how Andrew Allemann finds the time to cover this stuff, but I thought he did a good job of covering all angles (once he got all the info).  You can see his coverage here:

http://domainnamewire.com/2009/05/13/jay-westerdal-and-thought-convergence-part-ways/

http://domainnamewire.com/2009/05/13/thought-convergence-sues-westerdal/

http://domainnamewire.com/2009/05/13/thought-convergences-releases-statement-about-westerdal-termination/