Register.com Launches .cc Domain Registration Service Through an Alliance with eNIC

Business Wire, Oct 25, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NEW YORK & SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 25, 2000

Register.com customers can now register domain names with the .cc

extension in real time directly from the register.com home page

Register.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: RCOM), one of the leading domain name registrars on the Internet, and eNIC Corporation, the global registry for .cc domain names, today announced the addition of .cc registration services to the register.com site, allowing register.com customers to register names in real time with the .cc extension.

The popular ccTLD now sits alongside the .com, .net, and .org option boxes on register.com's (http://www.register.com) homepage, enabling customers to process registrations for .cc names through register.com's signature 6-Step process. In addition, register.com customers can also obtain customized email accounts at their new .cc domain (eg. me@mybusiness.cc).

"We are very excited about our new relationship with .cc and the potential for growth it has for both of our companies," said Richard Forman, CEO and President of register.com. "Placing .cc on our featured extension bar gives our customers the opportunity to register domain names with a recognizable and desirable extension, along with greater selection when choosing a domain name. This is just the latest example of our continued commitment to provide our customers with the widest possible variety of domain products."

We believe .cc can become as desirable worldwide, if not more so, than the .com extension," said Brian Cartmell, Chief Executive Officer of eNIC. "A key ingredient to desirability is availability. We plan to have .cc offered everywhere you can purchase a .com. By adding .cc extension to the register.com site, we are allowing an increasingly large audience the opportunity to register a .cc domain name easily and affordably with a registrar they know and trust."

The .cc extension is available to register.com customers for $100 per two-year registration. Customers who register a domain name ending in .cc will also benefit from register.com's various value-added services, including FirstStepSite, Free URL Forwarding, a free email account through Critical Path, Domain Fast Find, and Domain Manager. The .cc represents the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

About register.com

Register.com, Inc (www.register.com) is a leading provider of domain name registration services for individuals and businesses that wish to have a unique address and branded identity on the Internet. The first registrar to compete in the domain registration market after the industry was deregulated, register.com has processed over three million domain registrations since June 1999. Currently, the company directly registers domain names across the generic Top Level Domains (TLDs) .com, .net, and .org and also registers over 230 country code domains (ccTLDs), such as: .co.uk (Great Britain), .co.de (Germany) and .co.jp (Japan). Register.com offers a quick and user-friendly registration process as well as responsive and reliable customer support, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. To assist customers in developing and maintaining their online identities, the company bundles value-added products and services with domain names including: e-mail, URL forwarding, Domain Manager and FirstStepSite, a template-driven, three-page starter web site. Register.com offers additional products and services such as: Site Submit, Domain Lock Down, Trademark Guardian and Domain Round Up. In addition, the company offers domain name re-sale services such as auctions, appraisals and escrow services through its subsidiary, Afternic.com.

Through the company's partner network, Register.com also provides telcos, ISPs and other online businesses and communities with the ability to offer, brand and manage their own unique version of the register.com domain registration and Web site creation services.

The company was founded in 1994 and is based in New York City.

About eNIC

eNIC Corporation, http://www.enic.cc, a privately held Internet company founded in October 1997 and based in Seattle, Washington, is the worldwide registry of the Dot-CC TLD and is the registrar for second level domain names within the Dot-CC TLD. eNIC is currently the second largest registry in the United States and the fourth largest registry and registrar of country code TLDs in the world with more than 300,000 registered domains in the Dot-CC TLD alone. Registrants of Dot-CC domains include major corporations throughout the world including such notable companies as Intel Corporation, Deutsche Telecom, Amazon.com, Yahoo!, Goodyear Tire and Rubber and the Coca-Cola Company. As the Dot-CC registry, eNIC acts as the authoritative repository of all functional information relating to all Dot-CC domain names. The company markets Dot-CC domains worldwide in conjunction with its more than 8,000 affiliates and marketing partners. For more information, please visit http://corp.enic.cc.

Statements in this announcement other than historical data and information constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements. The potential risks and uncertainties include, among others, volatility in register.com's stock price, uncertainty of future revenue and profitability, uncertainty regarding the introduction of new top level domains and multilingual domain names, increasing competition across all segments of the domain name registration business, customer acceptance of new products and services offered by the company in addition to or as enhancements of its registration services, uncertainty of regulation related to the domain registration business and the Internet generally and the rate of growth of the Internet and online commerce, and other factors detailed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2000.