Digital Island Announces AudioCast.net as Customer to Deliver Streaming Media Solutions Worldwide.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2000

AudioCast.net Uses Digital Island's e-Business Delivery Network

to Enhance Web Sites with Fast and Guaranteed

Streaming Media Capabilities

Digital Island, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISLD), a leading global e-Business Delivery Network, announced today AudioCast.net, a pioneering leader in streaming media technology, as a customer to provide streaming media solutions for e-Business Web sites.

AudioCast.net enhances corporations' sales, marketing, fulfillment and support applications by integrating streaming media into their Web sites. Digital Island's network services allow AudioCast.net's customers to deliver a rich Web-site experience to consumers worldwide over the Digital Island e-Business Delivery Network.

&uot;Digital Island's global network services have already resulted in faster and more reliable experiences for the ultimate consumers by largely eliminating the problems of buffering and dropped connections,&uot; said Marjie MacLean, founder and president of AudioCast.net. &uot;In an industry where many service providers allow sales to outpace delivery and customer service, Digital Island stands out for its ability to execute.&uot;

&uot;Streaming media has emerged from a mere curiosity into a vital tool for enabling commerce,&uot; said Tim Wilson, vice president of marketing at Digital Island. &uot;Digital Island's e-Business Delivery Network helps companies generate revenue from streaming media by combining high-quality delivery of relevant content and a private, secure infrastructure for related transactions.&uot;

AudioCast.net provides outsourced streaming media and database management technologies, helping businesses achieve high-value applications in corporate communications and marketing for time savings and cost reductions.

Uniquely delivering a combination of off-the-shelf and custom solutions for live and &uot;on-demand&uot; audio via corporate intranet, extranet and Web sites, AudioCast.net has leveraged its early work in the talk radio industry to provide audio solutions to the broader corporate market. AudioCast.net utilizes technologies such as AudioExpress(SM), Archived Audio/Audio-On-Demand and Live Event Webcasting. www.audiocast.net.

Digital Island(R) is a leading global e-Business Delivery Network. The company's suite of application services for interactive e-Business allows customers and partners to readily integrate content delivery, hosting and intelligent networking to give the ultimate consumer a superior experience. Strategically located Data Centers in the United States, Europe and Asia are directly connected to leading access service providers in 23 countries.

In addition, Digital Island operates a network of more than 1,200 content distributors across the Internet, which improves the performance and reduces the cost of hosting high-volume Web applications in target markets. This network is expected to grow to more than 6,000 content distributors in 350 locations worldwide by the year 2003. Digital Island is headquartered in San Francisco. www.digitalisland.net.

Important Notice

This release may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Important factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, include but are not limited to: the company's short operating history which makes it difficult to predict its future results of operations; the company's history of operating losses and expected future losses which could impede its ability to address the risks and difficulties encountered by companies in new and rapidly evolving markets; the company's future operating results could fluctuate which may cause volatility or a decline in the price of the company's stock; the company may not be able to price its services above the overall cost of bandwidth causing its financial results to suffer; and other factors detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its recent filings on Form S-1.

Note to Editors: Digital Island is a registered trademark of Digital Island, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.