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INTERNET.COM LAUNCHES ATLANTA.INTERNET.COM
(New York, NY- February 1, 2001)- internet.com Corporation (Nasdaq: INTM), the Internet Industry Portal, today launched a new bureau to cover the thriving Internet business community in the greater Atlanta region. The site is available at Atlanta.internet.com (http://atlanta.internet.com) and joins ten other regional sites previously launched by internet.com. The launch of Atlanta.internet.com is sponsored by Creaxion Corporation (http://www.creaxion.com), one of Atlanta's leading high-tech marketing firms."While the Internet virtually eliminates geographic boundaries for businesses, the need for regional Internet news and resources has only intensified," said internet.com Chairman and CEO Alan M. Meckler. "Atlanta.internet.com marks our 11th regional site and will serve as a gateway to the Southeast's developing Internet community."
The site will be under the direction of Managing Editor Fauve Yandel, who was with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspapers for over 11 years, most recently as a reporter covering governments in five suburban Atlanta municipalities. "I am thrilled to be on the newsgathering end of the ever-changing technology scene in Atlanta. As Internet-related companies make news both in this city and around the Southeast, the job of keeping the public informed as news breaks will be an exciting and rewarding challenge. I am pleased to be a part of such a forward-thinking, dynamic company as internet.com," said Yandel.
The availability of internet.com's regional news content in the Atlanta area is the latest in a series of regional expansion initiatives in the U.S. including recent launches in Toronto (http://toronto.internet.com), Phoenix (http://phoenix.internet.com), Miami (http://miami.internet.com), Los Angeles (http://la.internet.com), Silicon Valley (http://siliconvalley.internet.com), Boston (http://boston.internet.com), Washington D.C. (http://dc.internet.com), Seattle (http://seattle.internet.com), Chicago (http://chicago.internet.com) and internet.com's pre-existing atNewYork.com site (http://atnewyork.internet.com) serving the Internet scene in New York's Silicon Alley. internet.com also has 20 international sites.
About Creaxion Corporation
Atlanta-based Creaxion Corporation (http://www.creaxion.com specializes in creative and strategic marketing, helping its clients - primarily emerging high tech companies, position their products and services to diverse audiences including media, consumers, investors, strategic partners and employees. In March, Creaxion will launch a first of its kind, "do-it-yourself" direct marketing service targeted to small and medium-sized businesses.
About internet.com
internet.com Corporation (http://www.internet.com), the Internet Industry Portal, is headquartered in Darien, CT. It 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 owns and operates a network of 165 Web sites, over 300 e-mail newsletters, over 400 online discussion forums and more than 100 moderated e-mail discussion lists that generate over 250 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 300 million per month. According to NetRatings, internet.com has over 3.2 million unique users in the United States alone. Over 25% of internet.com's views are from outside of the U.S. internet.com's global presence includes editions for Arabia, Asia, Australia, Canada, China, Espanol, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
"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 "Risk Factors" in the Company's Prospectus dated June 25, 1999, Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year, when available.
For more information contact:
Mary Ann Boland
Marketing and Public Relations Associate
212-547-7939
[email protected]
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