NAMEZERO.COM™ Honored by Guinness World Records for Hosting 1,307,300 Domain Names

Los Gatos, CA.- August 1, 2001 - Namezero.com (www.namezero.com), a leading provider of domain name services, today announced that it has been honored by Guinness World Records for hosting 1,307,300 domain names.

"Since receiving the honor from Guinness World Records, Namezero has continued to grow, and now hosts over 2 million domains," said Bruce Keiser, President and CEO, Namezero. "We believe that the Guinness World Records award is yet another indication of our premiere status in the domain name space, since the number of domains hosted by an Internet-based domain management service is the most significant predictor of continued success."

"We are pleased to recognize Namezero as the world's largest holder of domain names," said Emile Hoffman, Director of Business Development, Guinness World Records. "The Internet entries have become a popular segment of our science and technology records, and we are always happy to welcome new record holders to the group."

"In addition to Namezero's record number of domains hosted, Guinness World Records cited a number of other Internet-related statistics and record-breakers, including:

• Largest domain ownership: The United States. According to NetNames Ltd., as of April 2000, the United States has over 11 million domains of the 15,719,462 that exist worldwide.
• Most expensive Internet Domain name: Business.com. The internet domain name business.com was sold by Marc Ostrofsky of Texas, USA, on December 1, 1999 for US $7.5 million.
• Longest URL address: http://llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.co.uk/
  The longest URL, 72 characters long, belongs to a site all about the village of the same name in North Wales, UK.
• Most popular domain suffix: .com. Of the 15.72 million domain names in existence worldwide (as of March, 2000), the most popular domain suffix is ".com", used by 9.48 million hosts.
• Most expensive internet country code: .tv. Tuvalu, a tiny South Pacific island nation made up of nine atolls, with a population of just 10,588, announced in April 2000 that it had sold its rights to the URL suffix ".tv" to California company Idealab for $50 million.
• Youngest internet country code: .ps. The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which regulates net addresses, granted the suffix ".ps" to Palestine on March 22, 2000.
• Most visited Web site: www.france98.com. The official website of the FIFA World Cup, www.france98.com, is the most visited Web site ever. On June 29, 1998, the site received 235,356 hits in one minute alone. On June 30, 1998, the same site received 10,290,429 hits in just one hour, and received 73,030,828 hits in 24 hours.
• Most visited personal homepage: http://members.xoom.com/primall/mahir. Mahir Cagri, a photojournalist from Izmir, Turkey, set up a personal homepage that received 3,173,973 page views by April 12, 2000 (approximately 50,000 page views per day)."

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.

About Guinness World Records

The Guinness World RecordsTM has become a household name and the book has sold more than 80 million copies in 77 different countries and 38 different languages. It has also prompted successful television shows around the world, and the launch of the guinnessworldrecords.com website in the year 2000. Every year, thousands of people from around the world contact Guinness World Records Ltd in the hope of becoming an official Guinness World Record holder.

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