75,000 Web Masters Agree: ZapZone is the Source for Free Web-based Email; Unique Email Service Enables Any Web Site to Offer Free Email Accounts

Business Wire, May 27, 1999

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 1999--

CommTouch Software, a leading provider of web-based email, announced today that its ZapZone Network(SM) has signed 75,000 website partners.

In six short months, the ZapZone Network (ZZN) has syndicated its innovative free service to become the leader of web-based email to affinity websites around the world. Over 10,000 new sites sign-up to offer free ZZN email to their visitors every month.

Targeted at the needs of affinity websites, the ZapZone Network is a proprietary online solution developed by CommTouch(R) that enables any website or personal homepage to offer personalized, free email accounts to the public. Webmasters register online on the ZapZone Network at www.zzn.com. In less than 10 minutes they can begin hosting a free email service -- in their choice of 14 different languages -- from their very own website.

ZZN email is free to both the websites offering free email and to individual users who open free email accounts. Website owners are able to select a sub-domain name for their email service right on the ZapZone site -- a major attraction for potential email users. Real people prefer being known to the online world as rip@ripgerber.zzn.com as opposed to rip129@hotmail.com.

Websites of every description are offering free email through ZapZone. Fans of the rock group Hanson (www.hansonline.zzn.com), members of the Vietnamese-American community (www.vietline.zzn.com) and even fans of MTV's irreverent Tom Green Show (www.tomgreen.zzn.com) now have an online email address to call home.

The idea of personalized email is enormously popular, according to CommTouch vice president Rip Gerber, "It's like choosing your own stationery for email. The Internet allows anyone to project their individuality online. With ZapZone, websites of any size and inclination can compete with the mega-portals by offering free email accounts to their visitors -- and it won't cost the websites nor their visitors a cent. Thanks to ZapZone, there are now free email addresses that reflect over 75,000 different affiliations and interests."

CommTouch provides the free email services offered by blue-chip partners such as Excite International, (Nasdaq:XCIT), Nippon Telephone & Telegraph, Japan, (NYSE:NTT), Talk City and McGraw Hill's BusinessWeek (NYSE:MHP).

About CommTouch

CommTouch is a leading global provider of partner-branded, Web based email, serving more than six million individual subscribers through its 75,000 partner websites around the world. CommTouch email is designed for superior performance and rapid scalability, offering end user interfaces in fourteen of the world's major languages.

With more than eight years of delivering intuitive, award-winning email software, CommTouch offers its partners a truly comprehensive turn-key email service. The Company partners with internationally recognized consumer-driven organizations, including Excite International (NASDAQ:XCIT), McGraw Hill's Business Week Magazine (NYSE:MHP), Discovery Channel Online, Nippon Telephone & Telegraph (NYSE:NTT), ZDNet (NYSE:ZDZ), Talk City, LookSmart, Netopia (NASDAQ:NTPA), Hachette Multimedia, the McClatchy Group's Nando.net (NYSE:MNI), The Headbone Zone, Music.com, News Corp. (NYSE:NWS) and People's Daily Joint Venture ChinaByte, and the Hollinger Group's Jerusalem Post.

Founded in 1991, CommTouch is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California and has a major research & development center in Ein Vered, Israel. Additional information about CommTouch may be obtained by visiting: www.commtouch.com.