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Domain Name, Registrar Firms, Sedo and Dotster, Partner Brokerage Services

Cambridge, Massachusetts - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - December 11, 2006 - Domain name companies, Sedo, and Dotster, have partnered to offer customers, one-click access to Sedo’s domain marketplace or brokerage service for previously registered domain searches.

With the amount of unregistered domain names decreasing everyday, a quality domain name is becoming ever more difficult to find. Integration with Sedo’s marketplace helps Dotster overcome this obstacle and offers their users a second chance at acquiring their preferred domain name even if it’s already registered.

With this agreement, Dotster’s customers will have instant access to Sedo’s market leading database of more than six million aftermarket domain names, more than tripling the chances a name will be available for purchase than through the secondary domain market services Dotster previously offered. If the name is not available on Sedo, customers will be directed to Sedo’s brokerage services to help a buyer locate the domain’s owner, negotiate fair market value and legally transfer the domain.

Clint Page, CEO of Dotster remarked, ‘’Offering Sedo’s domain marketplace services was an easy decision for Dotster — it provides our customers with the largest amount of choice and the most experienced brokerage services in the industry.'’

Sedo’s partnership with Dotster marks the fifth such integration of its secondary domain name marketplace at a major registrar this year. In Q3 2006, Sedo sold more than 1,200 domain names through the registrar channel, resulting in significant new revenue for Sedo’s registrar partners and more transactions for Sedo’s domain sellers.

Jude Augusta, Director of Partner Development for Sedo added, ‘’Registrars like Dotster realize that the market landscape for domain names has changed; no longer can most businesses and consumers find the virtual real estate they need among the dwindling supply of unregistered domains. To solve this problem, Sedo offers registrars and their customers access to the largest collection of premium domain inventory on the Internet with a simple one-click access.'’

Dotster provides a full suite of Internet services to helps its customers turn domain names into successful websites. Recently, the company added several new services to its core hosting suite, including MyInternet, a custom website design service and Local Site Promotion for regional businesses to effectively utilize search engines. With nearly three million Internet domains, Dotster is one of the largest ICANN-accredited domain name registration and hosting companies in the world. Launched in 2000, Dotster was among the first to offer long-term domain registrations and discounted pricing.

Sedo, (acronym for ‘’Search Engine for Domain Offers'’), is an online marketplace for buying and selling domain names and websites. Sedo began in 2001, as a student project among three friends: Tim Schumacher, Ulrich Priesner, and Marius Würzner. The trio distributed computer games through the website offensiv.de. After the business was phased out, the students considered selling it, which laid the foundation for Sedo: ‘’search engine for domain offers.'’ Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Sedo has assembled what it believes is the world’s largest database of domain names for sale, with more than four million listings. Buyers and sellers are brought together through a searchable online marketplace, and conduct negotiations anonymously using an offer-counteroffer system. To facilitate successful transactions, Sedo has introduced a range of related services, including domain name escrow/transfer services, domain name appraisals, a domain brokerage service and paid domain name parking. The success of Sedo’s model has attracted a global membership base of more than 200,000 domain professionals, and helped more than 5,000 businesses start its web presence off on the right foot with a great new domain name. Sedo offers regional versions of its site for the UK (Sedo.co.uk), France (Sedo.fr), Germany (Sedo.de), and Spain (eSedo.com).

For more information about Dotster, please visit: www.dotster.com.

To learn more about Sedo’s auction service, please visit: www.sedoauctions.com.