Web.com and Name Intelligence Partner to Provide Additional Value to Domain Name Customers

BROOKFIELD, Connecticut, February 11, 2004 — Web.com, a Web services provider specializing in hosting and domain names, announced today that they have formed a strategic partnership with Name Intelligence, Inc., a leading domain technology and information company. The partnership allows Web.com to extend its reach to a broader market, and enables Name Intelligence to provide additional services and information to visitors of its multiple Web sites, including www.DailyChanges.com and www.Whois.sc.

Will Pemble, CEO of Web.com said, “Every company that's serious about the Domain Name business does business with Name Intelligence. Simply put, they provide insight that you can’t get anywhere else. We’re excited to partner with an organization of this caliber and believe our strategic alliance will help fulfill our mutual goal of providing the highest quality Web services and information via the Internet.”

Among the key aspects of the partnership, Name Intelligence will add ".web.com" domain names to its comprehensive domain name search engine, Whois Source. Whois Source enables users to quickly and efficiently find all active, inactive and available names for the .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, and .us top level domains. Whois Source will now also include results for the “.web.com” extension. Additionally, Name Intelligence will include .web.com activity on its DailyChanges.com site, which provides a complete record of every DNS (domain name service) change on the Internet. The site will track which .web.com names have been added, deleted and transferred on a daily basis.
Name Intelligence will also power domain name lookup results for Web.com’s domain name reseller program. This will allow all of Web.com’s resellers access to industry standard technology—the same technology that powers the biggest players in the field— for checking domain name results and alternatives.
“Web.com fills an important need through its .web.com domain registry,” said Name Intelligence CEO Jay Westerdal. “We believe the availability of short, easy-to-remember names in the .web.com space will make a meaningful contribution to both Internet companies and consumers.”

About Name Intelligence Inc.
Name Intelligence Inc. is a registrar solutions provider that offers services such as name spinning and domain statistics. Name Intelligence core mission is to serve ICANN registrars. Name Intelligence’s suggestion technology helps several registrars and hosting companies, while their unique search engine technology and DNS intelligence solutions give them an advantage to help large domain holders, registries and registrars. For more information please visit www.nameintelligence.com.
About Web.com:

Since 1996, Web.com has served more than 300,000 customers providing domain names, e-mail service, Web hosting and e-commerce solutions, consistently ranking among the Top 20 domain name providers and Web hosting companies. Web.com’s approach to hosting hinges on flexibility, customization and customer control coupled with service excellence, value-added services and highly competitive pricing. For more information on Web.com, please visit www.web.com.


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