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INTERNET.COM EXPANDS COVERAGE OF APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDER (ASP) INDUSTRY

(New York, NY-March 24, 2000)-- internet.com (Nasdaq: INTM; http://www.internet.com), the Internet Industry Portal, has added a new section focused on Application Service Provider (ASP) news to its award-winning InternetNews.com Web site, located at (http://www.internetnews.com/asp-news/).

In conjunction with this enhanced coverage of the ASP industry, internet.com also announced that SearchButton.com and SystemsFusion have signed on as charter sponsors of the new section.

Designed for professionals in the Application Service Provider industry, the new section provides daily news stories covering the latest developments in this emerging market. Leading ASP industry participants include Citrix (Nasdaq: CTXS), NaviSite (Nasdaq: NAVI), Verio (Nasdaq:VRIO), FutureLink (Nasdaq: FTRL), US Internetworking (Nasdaq: USIX), as well as established technology companies such as IBM (NYSE: IBM).

"The ASP industry is experiencing phenomenal growth, and internet.com is now a leading provider of news and information resources for this emerging market," said internet.com chairman and CEO Alan M. Meckler. Other internet.com sources serving this market include ASP News Review (http://www.aspnews.com), Thin Planet (http://www.thinplanet.com) and ASP Island (http://www.aspisland.com).


About Searchbutton.com
(http://www.searchbutton.com) Searchbutton.com is a leading Application Service Provider (ASP) for site search and reporting and related site management services, offering a complete range of solutions to meet the needs of personal, small business and corporate web sites.


About SystemsFusion
(http://www.systemsfusion.com) SystemsFusion's software product, Evolutionware™ allows ISPs (Internet Service Providers) to maximize customer value by dramatically reducing their customer management costs, and increasing their revenue opportunities per customer. Evolutionware is an easy to integrate solution that complements any service providers current systems helping them move into the future by bridging the gap between ISP and ASP.


About internet.com
internet.com Corporation (Nasdaq: INTM; http://www.internet.com) 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 103 Web sites, 124 e-mail newsletters, 101 online discussion forums and 75 moderated e-mail discussion lists with over 2.2 million unique visitors that generate more than 120 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 180 million per month. internet.com's global presence includes editions in Arabia, Asia, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, South Africa 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.

Interested advertisers should contact Susan Leiterstein, Vice President and Publisher of internet.com, at [email protected] or (203) 662-2962. For e-commerce and licensing opportunities, contact David Arganbright, Vice President, Commerce and Licensing, at [email protected] or (203) 662-2858.

"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.

For more information contact:
Steve Rubel
Schwartz Public Relations
(212) 677-8700 x23
[email protected]


Nicole Catalano
(212) 547-7939
[email protected]

All current internet.com Corp. press releases can be found on the World Wide Web at (http://www.internet.com/corporate/press.html)


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