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INTERNET.COM LAUNCHES TORONTO.INTERNET.COM; CONTINUING REGIONAL EXPANSION OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
(NEW YORK, NY-November 14, 2000)--internet.com (Nasdaq: INTM), the Internet Industry Portal, today launched a new bureau to cover the thriving Internet market and community in the greater Toronto area. The site is available at toronto.internet.com (http://toronto.internet.com).
"The launch of Toronto.internet.com marks our first regional site in Canada and our tenth overall. It will provide local news and resources to the region and nicely complement our national site, canada.internet.com (http://canada.internet.com) which serves the entire Canadian Internet business community," said internet.com chairman and CEO Alan M. Meckler. "Our aggressive regional expansion has exceeded our expectations regarding the sites' growth and acceptance in their respective Internet communities, and it's time that Toronto's business professionals had the local Internet industry resource they both need and deserve."
Toronto.internet.com will be under the direction of Managing Editor Cindy Waxer. A Toronto-based journalist, Ms. Waxer has been a regular contributor to: Business 2.0, The Globe & Mail, The Toronto Star, Yahoo! Internet Life, and ComputerWorld Canada, and has often been interviewed on the radio in both the United States and Canada.
Toronto.internet.com joins an impressive regional line-up from internet.com that includes recent launches in 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.com) serving the Internet scene in New York's Silicon Alley. internet.com also has nearly two dozen international sites and plans to roll out several other bureaus in coming months.
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 149 Web sites, 269 e-mail newsletters, 136 online discussion forums and over 100 moderated e-mail discussion lists that generate over 170 million page views monthly. Total "views," which include Web site page views, e-mail newsletter views and e-mail discussion list views, are over 230 million per month. According to NetRatings, internet.com has nearly 3 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, Belgium, Canada, China, Espanol, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Turkey 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 Susan Leiterstein, Vice President and Publisher of internet.com, 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)