Intranets.com Celebrates One-Year Anniversary With a Free Gift to Registered Users

BOSTON (September 5, 2000) - Intranets.com, the world's largest and fastest growing provider of Web-based intranets, surpassed 300,000 registered sites today-reaching the milestone one year after beginning to offer free intranets to small business and other organizations on the Web.

"Our growth in just one year has been exceptional," said Steve Crummey, CEO and president of Intranets.com. "Our intranet service, delivered by Intranets.com or through our growing partnership channels, is becoming a mission critical tool for small businesses. Our customers log nearly 20 million minutes a month working on their intranets, proving that we are providing them with essential small business applications."

Intranets.com, which launched in August of 1999, recently celebrated its one-year anniversary by giving its existing customers 5MB of extra free space, affording each site a total of 30MB of online storage space.

"This is our way of thanking the loyal members who are utilizing Intranets.com in their small businesses," said Rick Faulk, vice president of marketing for Intranets.com. "We want our customers to know that Intranets.com appreciates them and will continue to provide them with the best intranet solution available on the Web."

Intranets.com has moved increasingly toward developing intranet solutions for strategic partners such as Inc.com, Concentic Network Partners and Hello Direct. Through these partnerships, Intranets.com allows partners to offer their small business customers intranets featuring applications such as document sharing, hosted email, contact databases and group calendars.

"Intranets.com has become an essential part of my business," said Penny Hussey, executive vice president and co-founder of Romance Foretold, an electronic publisher of romance novels with 26 editors and staff. "The intranet is as important as the phone. Without an intranet, coordinating publishing schedules, exchanging important documents and maintaining close contact with authors would be nearly unmanageable."

About Intranets.com
Intranets.com is the world's leading provider of on-demand collaboration services for small businesses or departments and groups inside large organizations. The company serves more than 350,000 users across 10,000 companies worldwide and offers a secure, web-based collaboration suite to share critical business information quickly and easily at any time from anywhere. Privately held and profitable, Intranets.com is led by an experienced team of software industry professionals who are committed to providing a secure, customizable, easy-to-deploy intranet solution supported by world-class customer service. Intranets.com is a PC Magazine "Editor's Choice" winner and is rated one of the world's "Top 25" leading service providers by ASPNews. The company has also been ranked by the Boston Business Journal as one of the fastest growing private companies in Massachusetts for two consecutive years. For more information or to take a FREE 30-day test drive, visit http://www.intranets.com/pr, e-mail corpsales@intranets.com or call 888-932-2600 or 781-565-6000.

About idealab!
idealab! (www.idealab.com ) identifies, creates and operates Internet businesses. Founded in March 1996 by Bill Gross, idealab! currently has approximately 50 businesses in various stages of development. idealab! generates ideas for new Internet businesses and creates, capitalizes and operates a separate company to conduct each new business. Actively participating in the on-going operations of its network companies through board representation, information sharing and facilitating collaboration among the companies, idealab! also recruits management to oversee the day-to-day operations allowing senior management to concentrate on executing the business plan. Additionally, idealab! provides each operating company with a full range of operational support services including office space and the accompanying network infrastructure, technology, graphic design, marketing, competitive research, legal, accounting and business development services. idealab! public companies include eToys (Nasdaq: ETYS), GoTo.com (Nasdaq: GOTO), CitySearch (TMCS), NetZero (Nasdaq: NZRO) and Tickets.com (Nasdaq: TIXX).

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