Digital Island Announces the Wall Street Journal as a Customer to Ensure Subscribers Fast, Reliable Access to Content.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 1, 2000

WSJ.com Uses Digital Island's Footprint Content Delivery Services to

Manage Traffic Spikes Triggered by Super Bowl XXXIV Commercial

Digital Island, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISLD), a leading global e-Business Delivery Network, announced today that The Wall Street Journal(R) is using its network services to provide subscribers with fast and guaranteed access to selected content from the online Wall Street Journal at WSJ.com(R).

In addition to using the Footprint(TM) content delivery services for day-to-day distribution of portions of its online edition, The Wall Street Journal is also relying on Digital Island's e-Business Delivery Network to manage expected traffic spikes generated by its Super Bowl commercial promoting WSJ.com.

Digital Island's Footprint infrastructure, a global network of 1,200 content distributors, deploys content in proximity to the ultimate consumer, giving The Wall Street Journal's readers fast and dependable access to all major content formats, including streaming media and dynamic content.

&uot;The Wall Street Journal's readership relies on the online edition for 24-hour-a-day news updates and market information when, where and how they want it,&uot; said Ruann F. Ernst, chairman and CEO of Digital Island. &uot;Digital Island's approach to content delivery for e-Businesses gives The Wall Street Journal the scalable platform it needs to expand its online presence worldwide.&uot;

&uot;We're pleased to be working with Digital Island to ensure the quality of our subscribers' experience,&uot; said Neil Budde, editor and publisher of WSJ.com. &uot;We anticipate a tremendous surge in our traffic as a result of advertising during the Super Bowl and it's important to us to secure a content-delivery strategy that is timely and reliable.&uot;

Introduced in April 1996, the online Wall Street Journal features continuously updated coverage of the full spectrum of business news both in the U.S. and around the world, prepared by a dedicated news staff, supported by the global resources of The Wall Street Journal.

Subscribers have access to more than 22,000 in-depth background reports on companies, an archive of news articles, and personal news and stock portfolios. Subscribers can also access the vast Dow Jones Publications Library that features current and past articles from 6,000 newspapers, magazines and business-news sources. WSJ.com has paid circulation of more than 375,000 subscribers and was recently cited by Forbes magazine as &uot;Simply the best online news site on the Web.&uot;

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 hosting, content delivery, network and application services to guarantee the ultimate consumer a fast and relevant 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. Footprint is a trademark of Digital Island, Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.