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INTERNET.COM ANNOUNCES THAT CHAIRMAN AND CEO ALAN MECKLER HAS PURCHASED COMPANY SHARES IN OPEN MARKET TRANSACTIONS IN AUGUST

(New York, NY - August 30, 2000)- internet.com Corporation (Nasdaq:INTM), the Internet Industry Portal, today announced that Alan M. Meckler, Chairman and CEO purchased 28,000 shares of the common stock of internet.com in open market transactions during the month of August. The company further added that the purchases are in keeping with Meckler's previous purchases since the company's IPO in June of 1999. Meckler has purchased a total of 99,000 shares since June 1999.

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 operates a network of 129 Web sites, 215 e-mail newsletters, 136 online discussion forums and 78 moderated e-mail discussion lists with over 2.2 million unique visitors that generate over 140 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 200 million per month. internet.com's global presence includes editions for Arabia, Asia, Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Espanol, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. internet.com, with its related internet.com Venture Funds I, II and III, is an investor in a growing number of business-to-business content sites and related Internet media properties.

Interested advertisers should contact the Ad Sales department at [email protected] or (203) 662-2962. For 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]

Mary Ann Boland
internet.com Corporation
(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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