NetNation Teams with Intranets.com, World's Largest Provider of Intranets
Partnership Provides Communication and Collaboration Tools for NetNation Clients
Boston, Toronto, Vancouver - June 4, 2001 - NetNation Communications, Inc. (Nasdaq:NNCI), a pioneer and an international player in the web hosting and domain name registration business, and Intranets.com (http://www.intranets.com) today announced a partnership to offer enterprise-quality intranets to NetNation clients in over 130 countries. Intranets.com, the world's largest provider of Web-based intranets, will provide its business applications to NetNation clients through the company Web site at www.netnation.ca/customer/toolbox.
"We are thrilled to partner with NetNation, a leader in the Web hosting market," said Steve Fischer, Intranets.com Vice President of Business Development. "This partnership validates the strength of our subscription-based intranet service. For our corporate partners like NetNation, our enterprise-quality intranet offering is a powerful value added service for their customers and resellers."
"We are pleased to offer this value-added intranet service to better serve the needs of our clients," said Joseph Kibur, NetNation CEO. "Intranets.com's subscription-based revenue model will help us monetize our traffic, increase revenue streams, and enhance stickiness to our company web site (http://www.netnation.com/in)."
NetNation clients and resellers using the Intranets.com co-branded service will be able to benefit from advertising-free intranets available in professional interfaces for three segments - corporate users, small businesses, and organizations. Through this intranet service, NetNation clients can quickly and easily create an affordable, application-rich intranet on the Web and take advantage of Intranets.com's applications including document sharing, communication tools, wireless access, as well as 100MB of storage, task management tools, and expense report applications.
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 NetNation Communications, Inc.
NetNation Communications Inc., (Nasdaq: NNCI), is a pioneer and an international player in the web hosting and domain name registration business. Whether to manage information or sell products and services on the Internet, NetNation (http://www.netnation.com) provides the technical tools and expertise businesses need to run their web sites.
Since inception in 1997, NetNation has been internationally reputed for its client commitment. The Company's outstanding customer service and proven technical expertise is also ranked top ten by independent industry evaluators. NetNation's complete line of web solutions include dedicated, co-location, and shared hosting services. Its state-of-the-art infrastructure featuring reliability, scalability, security and speed, serves clients in over 130 countries. NetNation's wholly owned subsidiary, DomainPeople, Inc. (http://www.domainpeople.com), is the eighth ICANN accredited registrar in the world, and CIRA certified registrar of top level domain names (TLDs). DomainPeople is a founding member of Afilias LLC, an international consortium of domain name registrars selected to operate the registry for ".info", the only unrestricted general use domain of the new TLDs. NetNation has strategic alliances with Intel (Nasdaq: INTC), Cobalt Networks of Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW), GT Group Telecom (Nasdaq: GTTLB), MasterCard International and Sympatico-Lycos.
This release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the "safe harbor'' provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include the following: (1) technological changes or changes in the competitive environment adversely affecting the service-packages, market share, revenues or margins of the combined business; (2) changes in general economic, financial or business conditions adversely affecting the combined business or the markets in which it operates and adversely affecting future revenues; (3) availability of financial resources to carry out plans; and (4) actions of third parties affecting ability to carry out plans. The matters discussed in this news release also involved risks and uncertainties described from time to time in NetNation's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the most recent Forms 10-Q filed on May 15, 2001. NetNation assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this news release.
NetNation is a registered trademark of NetNation Communications, Inc. and DomainPeople is a trademark of DomainPeople, Inc.. All other products and company names are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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