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Attention Technology Reporters:

Namescout Gains Official Dot-US Accreditation

Fast-Growing Registrar already has thousands of bookings for "America's Internet Address"

Wilmington, DE / Mar 4 2002 - Namescout.com, one of the world's fastest-growing domain registrars,
has been officially accredited by NeuStar as one of the world's first dot-US registrars.
Dot-US is the official country code for the USA, and under a new registry system officially
sponsored by the US Department of Commerce and managed by NeuStar, will become much more widely
available in the next few weeks. 

Namescout.com is already accepting online bookings for dot-US names at www.namescout.com.

"For the last six weeks, our clients have been demonstrating increasingly-strong demand for dot-US
registrations, confirming our view that dot-US is shaping up as one of the largest extensions -
possibly THE largest - on the Internet," said Rob Hall, President and CEO of Namescout.com.  "It is
a tremendous opportunity for businesses, organizations and individuals to say they are 'proudly
American", and with over 100 million Americans using the Net, we expect that millions of dot-US
registrations will be made".

Dot-US gives businesses, individuals, organizations and government entities the ability to establish
an American identity on the Internet with a short, memorable domain name (e.g. johnsmith.us,
publicservice.us, mycompany.us).  Any business or organization with a bona fide presence in the
United States can register a dot-US domain name, as well any U.S. citizen, resident or local
government agency.

"We are now accepting online dot-US bookings from all qualified individuals and organizations, as

well as Sunrise applications from trademark owners," said Hall.  "After the close of the Sunrise
period April 9, NeuStar will assign domain names for trademark owners, and we will submit all the
other bookings we have accepted in NeuStar's First-Come, First-Served Service.  After the live
registry commences full operation April 24, we will offer a free online search service along with
live online registrations." 

www.Namescout.com and its affiliated companies have long been at the forefront of Internet
development, offering industry-leading full customer service and a full suite of domain registration
services.  ICANN-accredited www.Namescout.com is ranked by the authoritative State of the Domain
report as one of the world's fastest-growing registrars, and is among the world's Top 50 registrars. 
Namescout.com is the world's first accredited dot-name registrar, is among the world's first
accredited dot-US registrars, and is provisionally accredited by the Australian Domain Authority
(auDA) in the first wave of new dot-au registrars.  Its sister company is Canada's first dot-ca
accredited registrar and is Canada's leading dot-ca registrar.  The companies serve customers around
the globe from offices in North America and the Caribbean, and are the world's only registrar group
simultaneously accredited by ICANN, NeuStar, CIRA, auDA and the Global Name Registry. 

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For more information, or to arrange a
media interview, please visit www.namescout.com or contact Lisa McAdam at lisa@namescout.com
or 613.715.3544