7/5/00
Concentric and Register.com Renew Exclusive Co-marketing Agreement Through 2001
Leading Web Hosting Provider and Leading Domain Name Registrar Extend Existing Strategic Marketing Relationship with Added Domain Products
SAN JOSE, CA and NEW YORK, NY - Concentric, a Nextlink Communications Company (Nasdaq: NXLK) and Register.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCOM) today announced they have extended their strategic alliance to provide businesses with complete and easy solutions for registering and building customized Web sites through December 2001. According to the terms of renewal, register.com will provide Concentric customers with domain registration capability for generic .com, .net and .org extensions, as well as country code top level domains, such as .co.uk and .fm. Concentric will also continue to be the preferred hosting client on the register.com Web site.
“Domain registration has been a pivotal component of the one-stop Web solution we provide to our customers, so we’re looking forward to building on our very successful relationship with register.com,” said Henry R. Nothhaft, vice chairman of the board of Nextlink, president and CEO of Concentric. “Today’s agreement enables Concentric to continue to get access to an ever-growing number of people looking to put their business on line, while providing our own customers with additional top-quality domain products and services.”
“Our alliance with Concentric has proven to be a powerful one, allowing us to expand our customer base, while providing our customers with direction when establishing their Web presence,” said Richard Forman, president and CEO of register.com. “Extending our agreement will enable us to further integrate services as both Concentric and register.com continue to grow. It also underscores our commitment to and success with our indirect distribution partners.”
Since July 1999, Concentric and register.com have teamed up to provide a one-stop e-commerce shop for small businesses looking build a branded presence on the Internet. According to the terms of today’s agreement, register.com will continue to power back-end domain name search registration services through its Third Party Protocol application (TPP), allowing Concentric to offer domain registration to its hosting customers directly from the Concentric Web site. Register.com will also continue to feature Concentric as one of its recommended Web hosting providers, allowing registrants to begin using their domain name immediately. As an added service, register.com will now power domain search and registration capability for 27 additional country code domain extensions, including .co.uk, .ws, co.il, .fm among others.
About Register.com
Register.com, Inc. () provides domain name registration and other Internet services for individuals and businesses that wish to have a unique address and a branded identity on the Internet. Through its partner network, Register.com also provides telcos, ISPs and other online businesses with the ability to offer, brand and manage their own unique version of the register.com domain registration and Web site creation services.
The first registrar to compete in the domain registration market after the US government deregulated the industry in 1999, register.com was ranked among the top 100 Web sites by PC magazine and listed as one of Fortune Magazine’s 25 Products to Watch in November 1999. The company was founded in 1994 and is based in New York City. For investor information, visit our Web site at http://investor.register.com.
About Concentric Network Corporation
Concentric Network, an operating unit of Nextlink Communications, is a global provider of leading data and Internet services. Together with Nextlink, the company offers local and long distance voice, Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) access, Web hosting and e-commerce, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), dedicated access, global transit and application infrastructure services for delivering applications over the Internet or a VPN.
Nextlink has assembled an unrivaled set of facilities-based broadband networks that, when complete, will serve much of the United States, Canada and Europe. In the United States, Nextlink has more than 410,000 metro fiber miles in operation and a 384,000 fiber-mile inter-city network under construction. The Company is also North America’s largest holder of fixed broadband wireless spectrum, with licenses covering 95 percent of the population of the 30 largest U.S. cities and a partnership with licenses covering all of the top cities in Canada. Nextlink has also acquired more than 80,000 metro fiber miles in Europe to serve the London, Frankfurt, Brussels, Amsterdam and Paris markets. Additionally, Nextlink acquired an 88,000 pan-European fiber network connecting 21 major European cities and transatlantic capacity that will eventually expand to 10 Gbps.
Publicly traded Nextlink is headquartered in McLean, Virginia and Concentric is located in San Jose, California. For more information visit www.nextlink.com or www.concentric.net or contact Public Relations at publicrelations@concentric.com.
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