NameMedia Announces Strategic Marketing Partnership with Network Solutions

Business Wire,  Oct 30, 2007  

Tags: Network Solutions Inc.

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Agreement expands distribution of NameMedia's premium domain name portfolio and brokered AfternicDLS listings to include Network Solutions

WALTHAM, Mass. -- NameMedia today announced a strategic marketing partnership with Network Solutions, the leading Web services provider for small businesses. This partnership will allow NameMedia to offer more than 2,000,000 high-quality domains to Network Solutions customers via NameMedia's AfternicDLS domain sales platform, providing the small business community with access to NameMedia's expansive, high-quality domain name portfolio.

"We are very pleased to partner with Network Solutions, one of the world's leading registrars," said Peter Lamson, senior vice president and general manager of NameMedia's domain name marketplace. "In addition to providing small businesses with access to our domain name portfolio, AfternicDLS members will benefit from continued rapid expansion of our distribution network."

NameMedia was recently recognized by the Domain Name Journal as the largest seller of secondary domain names in the world. With saleable inventory exceeding two million names, businesses worldwide are able to easily find the best domain name for their online identity through NameMedia's domain marketplace.

NameMedia's domain marketplace has a distribution network which includes more than 35 premier marketing partners, among them eight of the world's top ten registrars, making it the broadest distribution network in the world for secondary domain names.

About NameMedia

NameMedia is the industry leader in Direct Search and a leading marketplace for premium domain names. The company leverages the power of Direct Search through a proprietary publishing platform that creates revenue-generating search destinations, including the company's network of vertical online properties. NameMedia also has the industry's largest marketplace for buying and selling premium domain names. NameMedia is a privately-held, venture-backed company headquartered outside Boston in Waltham, Massachusetts. For more information, visit www.namemedia.com.

About Network Solutions, LLC

Network Solutions, a leading provider of Web solutions and the pioneer of the domain name registration service, offers a full range of Web-related services, including Web hosting, web design, e-commerce software, search engine marketing, SSL certificates, e-mail services and domain name registration. Network Solutions draws on 28 years of experience to make it simple and affordable for customers to build and manage an online presence through a one-stop Web Solutions provider. Additional information about Network Solutions' offerings is available at www.networksolutions.com.

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