New Advanced Features Offer Anytime Anywhere Flexibility For Small Businesses and Organizations

BOSTON (November 1, 2000)- Intranets.com announced today its launch into the European small-business market through strategic partnerships with GTS Systems and Virginbiz.net. Intranets.com currently provides more than 325,000 small businesses and groups with free intranets. Both Virginbiz.net and GTS Systems will begin offering a localized version of the Intranets.com service to their customers this week.

"With 60 percent of Web users residing outside of the United States, our business strategy is to bring a localized version of Intranets.com to the major economic centers of the world," said Steve Crummey, president and CEO of Intranets.com. "Partnering with respected brand names like Virginbiz.net and GTS Systems is a sure-fire way to introduce Intranets.com to the rapidly expanding European market."

Partnering with GTS Systems enables Intranets.com to provide its Web-based intranets over the GTS Ebone, Europe's largest IP network. GTS Systems is the leading provider of e-business and borderless broadband services across Europe, with access to more than 100,000 small/medium enterprise customers. The companies' joint offering, "GTS Virtual Office," is currently available in the UK and will be rolled out across the rest of Europe over the next two quarters, with German, French and Dutch languages currently planned.

"GTS has a powerful proposition for ASPs like Intranets.com," said Leo McCloskey. GTS senior vice president of marketing. "GTS offers the leading European IP network and state-of-the-art hosting facilities combined with direct connectivity to more than 25 percent of the Internet users throughout Europe. This is a win-win scenario for both companies as we add Intranets.com's valuable service to our network and service portfolio and they reach the widest European audience with one network partner. We think this is the blueprint for companies looking to enter the European market with such advanced Internet-based solutions."

Virginbiz.net Strategic Partnership

Intranets.com also announced a strategic partnership with Virginbiz.net, to offer Virginbiz.net's small business customers free, co-branded intranets with localized commerce and content. Virginbiz.net, a wholly owned subsidiary of Virgin Net, launched in October 1999 to provide a complete online service to small businesses in the United Kingdom, commands 10 percent of the UK's small business market, the largest share of any other provider. Virginbiz announced its partnership with Intranets.com during a press conference today at Nutopia in the Covent Garden section of London.

"Intranets.com has a proven track record of providing useful business resources in North America and Asia," said Mylene Curtis, managing director of Virginbiz.net. "By offering intranets as a value-added service, Virginbiz.net expects to strengthen customer relations, build brand awareness and boost revenues."

Intranets.com has moved increasingly toward developing intranet solutions for strategic partners both domestically and abroad. In February of 2000, Intranets.com launched its Japanese portal (www.intranets.co.jp) and since has partnered with Hitachi, Ltd. to deliver free intranets to its small business customers in Japan. Intranets.com allows partners to deliver a branded intranet that brings applications such as document management, hosted e-mail and calendar scheduling to their customers as a revenue-generating, value-added service. Intranets.com's technology platform is easily and quickly customized to a partner's business objectives.

For more information on partnering with Intranets.com, please contact Steve Fischer at 781-932-0960 or sfischer@intranets.com.

About Intranets.com

The world's largest and fastest growing provider of Web-based intranets, Intranets.com offers small businesses and groups a free, secure workplace on the Web for group communication and collaboration. Intranets.com is the simplest, fastest and most affordable way for businesses and groups to deploy an intranet. The company's partnership program allows ISPs, telcos, and many other companies targeting online customers to deliver branded intranets with features such as document sharing, hosted e-mail and group calendars as a revenue-generating, value-added service. Privately-held Intranets.com is one of first businesses to spawn from idealab!, the nation's leading Internet incubator. Intranets.com is based in Woburn, Massachusetts, with worldwide offices in Tokyo and in the Netherlands. For more information, visit www.intranets.com, e-mail webmaster@intranets.com or call 888-932-2600 or 781-932-0960.

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 (Nasdaq: TMCS), NetZero (Nasdaq: NZRO) and Tickets.com (Nasdaq: TIXX).

About Virginbiz.net

Virginbiz.net is a wholly owned subsidiary of Virgin Net. Launched in October 1999, Virginbiz.net provides a complete online service to small businesses wishing to harness the power of the Internet and equips them with websites to immediately deliver their products and services to a worldwide market. Richard Branson is one of the UK's best known business pioneers - and the entrepreneurs Virginbiz.net now helps are in a similar position to Richard's when he started his first business, all those years ago. Virginbiz.net focuses on those businesses with fewer than 20 employees - like 95% of all UK businesses. Of these, 3% already have websites. Virginbiz.net aims to double this figure by offering a fast, easy and competitively priced product.

About GTS Systems Global TeleSystems, Inc., (www.gtsgroup.com) is the leading provider of e*Business and borderless broadband services across Europe, serving businesses and carriers with a range of broadband, hosting, Internet/IP and voice services. As an industry leader in Europe, the company has the largest cross-border fiber optic network; the largest Tier-1 IP backbone (GTS Ebone); the most widely deployed pan-European e*Business sales and service staff; and the largest pan-European customer base. GTS's first and most extensive trans-European broadband fiber network includes on-net points of presence in 38 European cities (50 cities planned) and stretches across 17,500 route kilometers (25,000 route kilometers planned) with six city enterprise networks (CENs), providing intra-city bandwidth (with plans for a total of 16). GTS is also developing an advanced trans-Atlantic dual-cable system in a joint venture with FLAG Telecom. GTS has its corporate operating headquarters in London; maintains corporate offices in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area as well as Brussels and Cork, Ireland; and has sales and support offices in 20 countries.

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