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Atlanta, Georgia – (The Hosting News) – June 4, 2007 – Website and Internet services company, Web.com, Inc., has been awarded its twenty-first patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, number 7,225,272, entitled ”Method and Apparatus for Providing Name Services,” filed in July 2002.

Details of the patent specify that ”An embodiment of the invention comprises a method and apparatus for providing dynamic name resolution services based on information stored and served in a root server. A multi-part reference to the name resolution server is stored on the root servers. By analyzing the reference to the name resolution server, the name resolution server is capable of dynamically generating a canonical name associated with a domain and/or a host name. The domain and/or host name may be further examined by network resource servers to determine further information about a requested resource. ”

In other news, Web.com recently participated in two financial conferences in New York City: The Friedman Billings Ramsey and Co. 2007 Growth Conference at The Grand Hyatt, and the Cowen and Company 35th Annual SMid-Cap Technology Conference at The New York Palace Hotel. A live webcast of both presentations will be available through the investor relations section of Web.com’s website at www.web.com/ir.

The
Friedman, Billings, Ramsey and Co., Inc. 2007 Growth Conference will feature presentations from approximately 200 public and a select group of private companies. Presentations from more than 100 public companies in the TMT, Consumer and Healthcare sectors.

Company sectors to featured included:

Technology, Media and Telecom
o Cable and Broadband
o Enterprise Hardware
o Enterprise Services
o Financial Technology
o Internet Services
o Publishing and Education Services
o Semiconductor Devices
o Semiconductor Manufacturing
o Software
o Solar Manufacturing
o Telecommunications

Healthcare
o Biotechnology
o Emerging Pharmaceuticals
o Healthcare Services
o Healthcare Information Technology
o Pharmaceutical Informatics
o Senior Care
o Specialty Pharmaceuticals

Consumer
o Entertainment and Leisure
o Hardline Retail and Other
o Restaurants
o Specialty Apparel

Cowen and Company’s foundation of research, trading and investment banking, include the Health Care, Technology, Media and Telecommunications, Consumer, and Aerospace and Defense sectors. Nearly 90 years of growth through bull and bear markets has been recognized by clients.

Web.com, formerly Interland, Inc., offers do-it-yourself and professional website design, website hosting, ecommerce, web marketing, developer hosting, and e-mail resources, since 1995.More than 4 million websites have been built using Web.com’s proprietary tools, services and patented technology. As one of the longest-standing leaders in the website hosting industry, Web.com offers proprietary, point-and-click technologies and expert support professionals to ensure simplicity and ease-of-use at every step of the process. Distribution Partners include: Yellow Pages directories, broadband services, telecommunications, retail, and others. Strategic distribution partners include: R.H. Donnelley, Dex Media, EarthLink, British Telecom, Terra Lycos, Thomas Publishing, Ambassador Yellow Pages, Hawaiian Telcom, Encore Software, Office Depot, CompUSA, Amazon.com, and Monster Worldwide. Technology Partners include: Cisco, Compaq, Foundry Networks, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Lycos, Macromedia, Miva, Microsoft, Network Associates, Openwave, PayPal, RealNetworks, Red Hat, Staples, Sun Microsystems, VeriSign, Verizon, VERITAS, Yahoo, and WebTrends.

Web.com has been honored with the following accolades:

• Deloitte, Technology Fast 50 Winner, 2005 and 2006
• Excellence in Technology 2005 Awards – Ecommerce, SmallBusinessComputing.com
• # 12 on Deloitte’s 2004 Technology Fast 500
• #1 Web Design, Development and Services Company 2005, Atlanta Business Chronicle
• Frost and Sullivan Market Leadership Award 2003
• Who’s Who in Technology 2003 and 2004, Atlanta Business Chronicle

To learn more about Web.com, please visit: www.web.com.

June 2, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Australian domain name registrar and Web hosting provider SmartyHost (smartyhost.com.au) announced on Monday it has hired Doug Elliot as its first national business development manager.

Elliot will work on developing its hardware-as-a-service model, Vigabyte and boosting channel participation. He joins SmartyHost from IT services provider NEC where he previously spent 10 years as the company’s southern region manager and national channel manager.

“This stage I’ve got a lot of ideas in the pipeline,” Elliot says. “It’s a very simple partner model and everyone knows what margins you are going to make. I will be working with our current partners, like Optus, as well as bringing on new resellers by getting out into the market, telling them who we are, what we are doing and what we can offer.”

Vigabyte provides a virtual infrastructure data suite which customers can use to provision and deliver virtual and dedicated servers in real-time. Elliot says its new channel strategy would include developing a formal partner program that is scheduled to launch later this month. Elliot says all types of resellers could sell SmartyHost’s hardware-as-a-service.

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June 2, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting reseller program ResellersPanel (resellerspanel.com) announced on Monday that the new version of its resellers control panel, Resellers Panel v2, has been built, tested and launched.

Some of the upgrades include better client management tools, a new invoice manager section, an improved statistics section with more details and an easier to work with main navigation menu with modified titles and descriptions of the different sections. Resellers Panel v2 now offers technical support through a new trouble ticket system, enabling resellers to either request help by opening a ticket or provide direct support to their existing hosting customers.

New updates to the clients’ hosting control panel, which is now available in Dutch, have been made as well. They include multi-year bulk domain registration and multi-domain registration/transfer options, PHP5 support, new Registrar-Lock Status/Obtain EPP Key/Invite a Friend options, an RSS news generator, an SPF protection section and easy-to-understand help tooltips.

ResellersPanel has also launched its new enterprise hosting plan, designed for medium and large enterprises, as well as for Web designers, webmasters and advanced internet users. The plan includes 40GB of disk space, 500GB of bandwidth, the ability to host unlimited domains, sub-domains, emails and databases. Improvements on the business and the corporate plans have also been made, enabling resellers and their clients to host several domain names on a single account.

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June 2, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Linux distributor Novell (novell.com) announced on Monday that automobile manufacturer BMW Group (bmwgroup.com) has selected SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell with integrated Xen virtualization software to implement virtualized workloads in its data center.

According to BMW, Xen virtualization technology will enable the company to increase flexibility in managing server life cycles. BMW will also gain operational and cost advantages in other areas, in addition to having a flatter support structure through the integrated operating system and virtualization layer. The company says it is also currently evaluating Novell ZENworks Orchestrator as a way to manage the resulting virtual data center systems.

“The BMW Group is taking advantage of what the market is just discovering, that Xen open source virtualization software fully integrated in SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is a viable alternative to proprietary virtualization solutions, providing high performance at a lower cost,” says Roger Levy, VP and general manager of open platform solutions for Novell. “Integration ensures all pieces of the solution work well together and as is the case with open source software, it eliminates vendor lock-in and enhances customer choice.”

Novell has most recently become a member of The Green Grid, a global non-profit organization focused on reducing growing power and cooling demands in data centers worldwide.

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June 4, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Dedicated hosting provider The Planet (theplanet.com) announced on Monday that it has appointed Steve Reichert its VP of information technology and operations.

Reichert will report to company chairman and CEO Douglas J. Erwin and be responsible for IT software development and infrastructure, overall management and operations of the company’s six world-class data centers and its Global Network Operations Center.

“Steve Reichert’s experience in managinenterprise-level data centers and the supporting information technology infrastructure brings exceptional new capabilities to our executive team,” says Erwin. “His knowledge of software development, customer requirements and data center operations enables The Planet to continue expanding its data center footprint to deliver additional products and services for our growing customer base.”

Reichert joins The Planet from InfoCrossing, where he was vice president of client services.

Last week, The Planet announced a limited-time promotion on unmetered bandwidth for new server orders, available now through June 12.

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June 4, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Online security firm Sophos (sophos.com) announced on Monday the results of its latest report into malware threats, which reveals that 9,500 infected Web pages were discovered each day during May.

The figures show that malware continues to pose a serious threat to Web users, as the number of malware threats increased over April’s results.

Sophos identified a total of 304,000 Web pages hosting malicious code in May, an increase of 1,000 per day on April’s figures. The firm recently reported that the malware threat has doubled for the first quarter of 2007.

Google also found a significant amount of malicious Web pages in a recent online security study, with China hosting the most malicious Web sites at 53.2 percent. The US was found second on the list at 27.4 percent, Germany in third with 5.1 percent and Russia following in fourth with 3.5 percent.

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June 4 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Messaging and Web security services provider MessageLabs (messagelabs.com) announced on Monday that it has released the findings of its MessageLabs Intelligence Report for May 2007, which reveals an increase in spam spikes.

This month saw a rise in virus and phishing rates, and while spam rates decreased overall, MessageLabs identified new image spam techniques using image hosting sites. In one spam spike that lasted only 11 hours, more than 10,000 spam messages were attempted, accounting for more than 75 percent of the total messages received by the domain during the entire period.

“This month the bad guys continued with their aggressive attacks by developing new tactics to fly under the radar and cause the most damage,” says Mark Sunner, chief security analyst for MessageLabs. “With the increase in spam spikes and new techniques with image spam, it is crucial for businesses to take a multi-layered security approach among email, Web and IM to protect their employees and their systems completely from these malicious attacks.”

Analysis of this month’s data showed that spammers continue to innovate and use new methods to evade popular anti-spam solutions. Instead of embedding images in the body of an email message, spammers are now hosting images on sites that do not require registration and include links to those sites or an HTML image in the email message. The group using this new image spam technique is the same group behind the recent abuse of Imageshack. MessageLabs predicts that without registration requirements or validation of image sources on such hosting sites, this scheme will continue.

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Broomfield, Colorado
– (The Hosting News) – June 1, 2007 – Colocation, VoIP, and Internet backbone company, Level 3 Communications’ high-speed IP transit service, has been chosen for Jupiter Hosting’s upgrade, including 10 gigabit ethernet access circuits, throughout Silicon Valley.

Under the terms of the expanded multi-year service agreement, Level 3 will increase the total IP transit capacity it supplies to Jupiter Hosting. Level 3 will replace multiple single-gigabit Ethernet ports with 10 GigE circuits in three of Jupiter Hosting’s Silicon Valley, California locations. The upgrades are needed to support the expansion of the Jupiter Hosting network, enabling the firm to better serve its existing managed hosting customers, as well as to facilitate its entry into new markets. The upgrades will also simplify Jupiter Hosting’s Internet Protocol (IP) transit architecture to enable more efficient operations.

Ray Taft, President and Chief Executive Officer of Jupiter Hosting remarked, ”Our customers have come to expect exceptional network performance and uptime. When it comes to the underlying technologies we use to serve our customers, we select only the best upstream providers. Time and time again, Level 3 has proven their reliability and commitment to excellence, so selecting them for this expansion project was an easy decision to make. With the additional capacity these upgrades will provide, we’ll now have the transmission capabilities to deliver the content new IPTV and Video on-Demand frameworks require.”

Grant van Rooyen, Senior Vice President of Level 3’s Content Markets Group added, ”Jupiter Hosting has been a Level 3 customer for many years, and this new agreement further solidifies our shared commitment to Jupiter Hosting’s continued growth and success. Level 3 is uniquely positioned to be able to respond to the needs of clients like Jupiter Hosting that have experienced substantial IP traffic growth. We are committed to continuing to upgrade our network so that we can scale to deliver industry-leading, high-speed solutions such as 10 GigE IP transit.”

Jupiter Hosting was incorporated in April of 2003. Jupiter Hosting specializes in managed hosting for firms with high traffic volumes or complex Internet hosting requirements, including direct support of network resources such as IP bandwidth provisioning, server clustering, application or database installation and support. Jupiter Hosting staff installs supports, and maintains all layers of the OSI model, for over 10,000 Internet properties.

Level 3 Communications, Inc., an international communications company, operates one of the largest Internet backbones in the world. Through its customers, Level 3 is the primary provider of Internet connectivity for millions of broadband subscribers. The company provides a comprehensive suite of services over its broadband fiber optic network including Internet Protocol (IP) services, broadband transport and infrastructure services, colocation services, voice services and voice over IP services. The services are designed to provide building blocks that enable Level 3’s customers to meet growing demands for advanced communications solutions.The principal components offered by Level 3’s (3)VoIP Enhanced Local service include network trunking, local telephone numbers, local number portability, the safety of E-911, operator assistance, caller ID, directory listings, and directory assistance. The service is designed to allow Level 3 customers to retain the flexibility to manage and control end-user features without the difficulties of implementing complex interconnection arrangements.

To learn more about Jupiter Hosting, please visit: www.jupiterhosting.com.

For more information about Level 3, please visit: www.level3.com.