NAMEZERO.COM™ Blows Past the 2 Million Mark in Domain Names Hosted

Strengthens position as World's Third Largest Host of Domain Names

Los Gatos, CA.- July 17, 2001 - Namezero.com (www.namezero.com), a leading provider of domain registration, hosting and management services, today announced that it has passed the two million mark in domains hosted, strengthening its position as the world's third largest host of domains, behind NSI/Verisign (Nasdaq: VRSN) and Register.com (Nasdaq: RCOM). More than 250,000 new domains were added in the second quarter of 2001 to round out the total of over 2 million hosted domains.

"This is an important milestone in Namezero's development, because it indicates that we have hit critical mass in terms of customer acquisition," said Bruce Keiser, President and CEO, Namezero. "We believe this is a significant milestone toward our goal of becoming the number one domain host and provider of management services worldwide."

"The number of domains hosted by an Internet-based management service is a very important measure of health and status in the domain space," said Paul Sanders, Senior Analyst, Wit SoundView.

In the past six months, Namezero has extended its market reach through multiple new brands such as mydomain.com, yournamefree.com, myInternet.com, and myDNS.com, and augmented its broad range of services with a powerful, free, Web-based DNS management system for users with multiple domains. Namezero continues to offer domain registration, personalized e-mail, URL forwarding, and other services as a complete service package with Namezero domain names to provide users an online identity with optimal control and functionality, and is currently the world's only provider of free and try-before-you-buy domain services.

About Namezero.com

With more than 2.0 million domains hosted, Namezero is a leading provider of domain name services for small businesses and individuals seeking to establish a permanent identity on the Web. The company offers domain registration, personalized e-mail, URL forwarding, and domain management services through multiple leading brands including Namezero.com, mydomain.com, namesdirect.com and myInternet.com. Namezero works with VeriSign, Covad, Bigstep, Critical Path, L90 and other leading Internet companies to offer a powerful Web-based communications platform for its growing membership base. Founded in 1999, Namezero is backed by leading venture capital firms including WaldenVC, Whitman Capital, Arcadian Venture Partners and strategic corporate investors. For more information, please visit www.namezero.com.

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