New partnership gives millions of Network Solutions customers immediate access to the Intranets.com collaboration suite

Woburn, MA (October 5, 2004) - Intranets.com (http://www.intranets.com), the leading provider of on-demand collaboration services, and Network Solutions, the world's leading domain name registrar and web solutions provider, today announced a strategic partnership that adds on-demand collaboration to Network Solutions' suite of web-related services. Through this new partnership, Intranets.com is directly offering its quick-to-deploy and full-featured collaboration solution, with a special pricing package, to millions of Network Solutions customers worldwide. To sign up for the Intranets.com solution, customers can visit the Network Solutions homepage at www.networksolutions.com.

"Our complementary product offerings and similar target audiences make this partnership an ideal fit for both of our organizations," said Rick Faulk, president and CEO of Intranets.com. "Network Solutions customers can immediately take advantage of our collaboration suite to drive productivity. We've already signed a significant number of new customers through this partnership and that number continues to grow every day."

 

Both Network Solutions and Intranets.com offer powerful Internet-based solutions designed to increase business productivity. Network Solutions is the world's leading domain name registry, managing more than seven million domain names and providing a variety of web solutions services such as e-mail, web hosting and development tools that help businesses build and manage their online presence and promote their companies. Intranets.com is one of the largest paid subscription services on the web and was recently named "Editor's Choice" by PC Magazine. The company serves 350,000 users from more than 10,000 companies, including many small-to-midsize businesses as well as enterprise clients such as NASA, the Home Depot and Keller Williams Realty.

"We are a Network Solutions customer with employees working in several different locations," said Randy Ford, vice president of Scentedboutique.com. "The Intranets.com service brings our employees together in one place so we can easily schedule appointments, share important project information and manage tasks, just like we're in the same room. The service is priced for a small business budget, has eliminated back and forth e-mails, and is helping us run our business more efficiently."

By using the Intranets.com solution, Network Solutions customers can invite co-workers, partners or even clients to a private and secure intranet site where they can immediately post and share documents, manage schedules, create databases, conduct web and phone conferences, manage group tasks and even start discussion threads, among other collaboration activities - all online. The service can be up and running in minutes and there is no hardware or software to be downloaded or maintained.

"Collaboration is a key ingredient in helping our customers run their businesses more effectively," said Champ Mitchell, chairman and CEO of Network Solutions. "Intranets.com has a proven track record in the collaboration space and its suite of on-demand applications are a natural addition to our line of best-in-class Internet services. We look forward to working with Intranets.com to continue to meet the growing collaboration demands of our customers."

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 Network Solutions
Network Solutions, the world's leading registrar of domain names, offers a full range of Web-related services, including domain names, Web sites and e-mail. We make it simple and affordable for customers to build and manage a Web presence through a single, experienced provider. Network Solutions manages more than seven million domain names. Additional information about Network Solutions' offerings is available at www.networksolutions.com.

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