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Andover.Net Announces AskReggie.com, Free Site Searches for Available Internet Domain Names; Site Enables Users to Quickly and Easily Search Both Domestically and Internationally.


ACTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 1999--

Andover.Net (www.andover.net), the Internet's leading Linux destination, today announced Ask Reggie, an online resource that enables users to search for available Internet domain names An organization's unique name on the Internet. The chosen name combined with a top level domain (TLD), such as .com or .org, also called a "domain extension," makes up the Internet domain name. For example, computerlanguage.com is the domain name for the publisher of this Encyclopedia.  both in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area.  and in over 60 countries internationally. Ask Reggie can be accessed directly at www.askreggie.com or through the Andover.Net network--at absolutely no cost to users.

"With Ask Reggie, Andover.Net continues to expand its network of sites with innovative content and tools for IT professionals and people who build the Internet," said Bruce Twickler, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Andover.Net. "Ask Reggie is another free and full-featured tool to help builders of the Internet do their jobs more efficiently."

How Ask Reggie Works

Finding a domain name is a vital step in building a Web site. With Ask Reggie, users can quickly and easily search for domains within the US--domains that end in .com, .net, .edu or .org--as well as international domains, including countries such as China (.cn), Turkey (.tr) and the United Kingdom (.uk).

Ask Reggie searches the InterNIC Whois Database for registered domain names in the United States and multiple other databases to retrieve registered domain names in 60 international countries, making it easy for users to determine a name's availability. After entering a desired domain name, organization name or general keyword, users will get comprehensive, searchable results including Web site links, information about the domains, and other domains owned by registered companies--all within seconds.

Ask Reggie--Completely Free, Funded By Ads

Advertisers are looking for Looking for

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 new ways to advertise more effectively on the Web. Like all of the resources available on Andover.Net, Ask Reggie is free to end-users and is completely funded by advertising revenue. Andover.Net has over two million users and over 40 million page impressions on a monthly basis. As a result, advertisers like Gateway, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries)  and Compaq, have a captive, repeat audience bringing companies the opportunity to go beyond the banner and utilize more effective, information-based display and sponsorship ads. A steadily growing market, these more effective ads will represent 40 percent of online advertising revenue in 2003 according to according to
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 Jupiter Communications, a leading industry analyst firm.

About Andover.Net

Andover.Net (www.andover.net) is the leading Linux destination. Serving over two million users and over 40 million page impressions on a monthly basis, Andover.Net includes a unique combination of news and reviews; resources for buyers, developers and programmers This is a list of programmers notable for their contributions to software, either as original author or architect, or for later additions.

See also: Game programmer, List of computer scientists

; and e-Tools for Web builders. For the latest open source and Linux news, reviews and resources visitors go to Slashdot (slashdot.org) the leading site for open source programmers; Freshmeat.net (freshmeat.net), a leading Linux software web site; FreeCode (www.freecode.com), where users can easily view and use free code and DaveCentral-Linux (linux.davecentral.com) with over 1,500 downloadable Linux products. MediaBuilder(TM) (www.mediabuilder.com) is the largest online Web-building resource with unique e-Tools including GIFWorks (www.gifworks.com) and HTMLWorks (www.htmlworks.com) and it also includes Animation Factory (www.animfactory.com), the Internet's largest proprietary GIF GIF
 in full Graphics Interchange Format

Standard computer file format for graphic images. GIF files use data compression to reduce the file size. The original version of the format was developed by CompuServe in 1987.
 image library. Corporate buyers, developers and programmers download products at DaveCentral(TM) (www.davecentral.com) and Slaughterhouse slaughterhouse: see abattoir; meatpacking. (TM) (www.slaughterhouse.com), which provides over 6,000 free downloadable Windows software products. For the latest technology news, reviews and resources visitors go to AndoverNews(TM) (www.andovernews.com); The IT Managers Journal(TM) (www.itmanagersjournal.com); the Internet Traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks.  Report (TM)(www.internettrafficreport.com), providing Internet performance data every 15 minutes; TechMailings(TM) (www.techmailings.com) with over 3,900 free e-mail See Internet e-mail service.  newsletters and discussion lists TechSightings(TM) (www.techsightings.com), reviews of the Web's best sites and Ask Reggie (www.askreggie.com), which enables users to search domestically and internationally for available Internet domain names.

Andover.Net, Slashdot, Freshmeat, HTMLWorks, GIFWorks, AndoverNews Network, MediaBuilder, Internet Traffic Report, DaveCentral, FreeCode, IT Managers Journal, Slaughterhouse, TechSightings and TechMailings are trademarks of Andover.Net.
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