.NU Domain Ltd Selects GTE Internetworking for Web-Hosting Services to Support Rapid Growth.

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 1999--

GTE's High-performance, Highly Reliable, and Scalable Hosting

Services To Support Fastest Growing Top

Level Domain (TLD) on the Internet

.NU Domain Ltd., the fastest growing Top Level Domain (TLD) on the Internet, has selected GTE Internetworking to provide the high-performance, secure, fault-tolerant Web server collocation and management services necessary to support its rapidly growing TLD registry services (www.nunames.nu) while maintaining quality of service, GTE announced today.

.NU Domain Ltd, the only United States-based competitor to Network Solutions' `.com' domain, plans to double its registration of .NU Domain names every three months through the year 2000. The agreement with GTE Internetworking will set the technical foundation to support that continued rate of growth.

"We picked GTE Internetworking because of its extensive international system of data centers, twenty-four-hour Network Operations Center, secure collocation services and ample, redundant bandwidth capacity. In addition, teaming with GTE Internetworking represents our commitment to providing a technical infrastructure that clearly differentiates .NU Domain from Network Solution's .com.," said J. William Semich, president of .NU Domain Ltd. "Now we can assure .NU Domain customers that they will get the extensive support and bandwidth required to avoid the kind of capacity problems that have plagued other domain registry sites," he added.

GTE Internetworking's Web hosting services provide organizations with high-performance, high-bandwidth, highly reliable and scalable Web sites. Services include dedicated, custom and collocated hosting designed to meet specific needs for a professionally managed and monitored Web site. GTE Internetworking helps clients grow from simple marketing Web sites to large-scale, integrated transaction environments like .NU Domain's online domain name registration services. GTE Internetworking's hosting infrastructure now includes 10 distributed data centers and a unique load-balancing technology that delivers low-latency accessibility and fail-over protection for hosted Web sites.

"We are very pleased that .NU Domain, a customer that is entirely Web-based, has selected GTE for collocation of its online transaction systems and TLD name servers," said Mark Shull, vice president, network centric solutions, GTE Internetworking. "GTE's Web hosting expertise, coupled with our ability to offer leading-edge technology and managed services to our customers, makes GTE the ideal partner to ensure that .NU Domain brings the highest level of fault tolerance, 7-by-24 technical support and capacity to its users."

About .NU Domain Ltd.

.NU Domain Ltd., a US-based private corporation, offers the only competitive alternative to Network Solutions Inc.'s. (NASDAQ:NSOL) .com domain name. The .NU Domain Ltd. targets end users and the small office/home office (SOHO) market, as well as Internet users in countries with restrictions on the domain name registration process. The .NU domain is the fastest growing TLD on the Internet. It has registered over 30,000 .NU domain names on the Internet during the past 18 months and registrations of .NU domain names have doubled in the past six months.

Current .NU registered customers are located in dozens of counties throughout the world, including Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, Norway, Italy, the UK, Spain, Brazil, New Zealand, Finland, Indonesia, Belgium, Singapore, France, the Canary Islands, Australia, Canada and the Philippines, as well as the US.

The list of registered .NU domain names ranges from personal sites like the Black Velvet Dart Team in Sweden (http://www.blackvelvet.nu) to names registered by large corporations, including Dell Computer Corporation (http://www.dell.nu); entertainment-software publisher Blizzard Entertainment (http://www.starcraft.nu); the Renault Group (http://www.renault.nu); Visa International (http://www.visa.nu); International Data Group Corp. (http://www.idg.nu); The Coca-Cola Bottling Company (http://www.coca-cola.nu); The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (http://www.goodyear.nu); Hasbro, Inc.; and Volkswagen of Sweden's www.klubben.nu. .NU Domain Ltd. can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.nunames.nu.

About GTE Internetworking

GTE Internetworking, a unit of GTE Corporation (NYSE:GTE) offers customers, from consumers to Fortune 500 companies, a full spectrum of integrated Internet services using IP networking technologies. GTE Internetworking delivers complete network solutions, including dial-up and dedicated Internet access, high-performance Web hosting, virtual private networks (VPNs) managed Internet security, network management, enhanced IP services, systems integration, and Web-based application development for integrating the Internet into business operations. GTE Internetworking draws upon its expertise in funded research and development of advanced technologies, including satellite networks, packet radio networks, multi-gigabit routers, network and information security, and speech recognition, and GTE's strong existing telecommunications services, including local and long distance, wireless, paging, video, and Internet. GTE is one the world's largest telecommunications companies and a leading provider of integrated voice, video and data services. More information about GTE Internetworking and GTE Corp. can be found on the Internet at http://www.gte.com.

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