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internet.com Chairman and CEO Alan M. Meckler to Participate in First Quarter Chat with Stockholders on Yahoo! Finance's internet.com Message Board

Business Wire, May 23, 2000

Business Editors

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2000

Forum Gives Individual Stockholders the Ability

to Ask Questions About Recent Developments

and the Company's Long-Term Strategy

internet.com Corporation (Nasdaq:INTM), the Internet Industry Portal, today announced that Chairman and CEO Alan M. Meckler will participate in his second chat with individual investors and others on the company's Yahoo! Finance message board (http://messages.yahoo.com/?action=q&board=INTM).

The 2-day-long chat takes place this Wednesday and Thursday, May 24 and 25. To participate, individuals just need to have access to the Internet and a free Yahoo! user ID.

Following up last quarter's Q&A exchange with stockholders, Meckler will personally answer questions about internet.com's first quarter results, its recent product launches and overall strategy. Meckler will participate using the Yahoo! ID "net_pioneer."

On April 24 internet.com Corporation reported that first quarter revenues increased to $9.6 million and that net income, excluding amortization of intangibles, was $85,000, or $0.00 per share, compared to a net loss of $1.3 million, or $0.08 per share, for the same period last year. Including amortization of intangibles, net loss for the first quarter ended March 31, 2000 was $4.2 million, or $0.17 per share. Full details are posted at http://www.internet.com/corporate/releases/00.04.24-q1.html.> "This is a very exciting time for the company. We're on the road to profitability, we're rapidly rolling out regional and international sites and expanding into the wireless arena," said Meckler. "I look forward to engaging in a meaningful dialogue with our investors to discuss these and other company developments."

Individuals wishing to ask questions during the forum with Alan Meckler should visit http://messages.yahoo.com/?action=q&board=INTM and post messages using the subject "CEO Forum" followed by the subject of their query. Meckler will personally select from among the most interesting questions and post his responses online during the evening hours.

About internet.com (http://www.internet.com)

internet.com Corporation (Nasdaq: INTM), based in New York, NY, is a leading provider of global real-time news and information resources for Internet industry and Internet technology professionals, Web developers and experienced Internet users. internet.com operates a network of 117 Web sites, 171 e-mail newsletters, 117 online discussion forums and 78 moderated e-mail discussion lists with over 2.4 million unique visitors that generate more than 130 million page views monthly. Total "views", which include Web site page views, e-mail newsletter views and e-mail discussion list views, are now over 185 million per month. internet.com's global presence includes editions in Arabia, Asia, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Espanol, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, South Africa, Spain and the United Kingdom. In addition, internet.com with its related internet.com Venture Fund I and Venture Fund II is an investor in a growing number of business-to-business content sites and related Internet media properties.

"Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding internet.com Corporation's business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see internet.com's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The forward-looking statements included herein are made as of the date of this press release, and internet.com assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements after the date hereof.

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