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Domain Name Registrars Leverage iAtlas Advanced Directory and Search Technology in Launch of Registration Sites; iAtlas Announces Deals with Three of the New Domain Registrars.


LAUREL, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 26, 1999--

iAtlas Corporation today announced that it has entered into agreements with three of the new domain name registrars This is a list of domain registrars ranked in order according to ICANN statistics at [1]
  1. Go Daddy
  2. Network Solutions
  3. eNom
  4. Tucows
  5. INWW.com
  6. Schlund.
 to provide advanced directory and search functionality to their sites. As a pioneer in the integrated search and directory market, iAtlas' Open Source Search and Directory service will provide these new registrars with the most comprehensive and advanced Online Directory available. Registrars licensing iAtlas include DomainDirect, Name-Space, and CASDNS, Inc.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers See ICANN.

(body, networking) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - (ICANN) The non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system
 (ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number ) has selected over 50 companies as accredited accredited

recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria.


accredited herds
cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g.
 new registrars with access to the shared registry system for the .com, .net, and .org domains provided by Network Solutions, Inc. under contract with the United States Government. iAtlas is a strong supporter of the actions being taken by US Department of Commerce and ICANN to bring competition to this market and has developed a product offering to help these new registrars establish themselves as Business Information Portals.

By incorporating iAtlas' open source technology, the New Registrars will be able to add their customers to the Online Business Directory, and allow their users to access the only online business directory with integrated search capabilities -- enabling customers to locate a specific online business, search all of its indexed web pages for specific content, and even to search the Web pages of all of the selected businesses competitors web pages.

"We needed a solution that would effectively and easily locate all the pertinent information users require --while going a step further to hone our competitive edge," said Ross Rader, director, electronic commerce at Domain Direct. "iAtlas offers a dynamic technology that works seamlessly with the service we are providing, and their open data source approach provides us with a simple way to insure our customers are found on the Internet."

"We are pleased to have these new Domain Registrars as our business partners," said Jeff Black, 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 iAtlas. "With only 1.4 million of the 11 million US Businesses having an online presence, significant potential exists for these new registrars and we look forward to making their product offerings more comprehensive now and into the future."

About iAtlas Corporation:

Based in Laurel, Md., the privately held iAtlas Corporation develops and markets filtering technology that brings the Internet into focus.

iAtlas' patent-pending filtering technology, the InfoLens, reduces information overload A symptom of the high-tech age, which is too much information for one human being to absorb in an expanding world of people and technology. It comes from all sources including TV, newspapers, magazines as well as wanted and unwanted regular mail, e-mail and faxes.  by making it possible to perform sharply focused searches for Internet-specific, traditional business demographic, and geographic information. iAtlas' partners include Inktomi (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
: INKT INKT Inktomi, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX)
INKT I Never Knew That
), infoUSA, Inc. (Nasdaq: IUSAA/IUSAB), Exodus Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXDS), Switchboard, Inc., the Internet subsidiary of Banyan Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:BNYN BNYN ePresence (stock symbol; formerly known as Banyan) ), and Centraal Corporation. For more information visit www.iatlas.com.

About Domain Direct:

With offices in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
, Flint, Michigan and Toronto, Canada, Domain Direct is part of the privately held Tucows.com (The Ultimate Collection of Winsock Software) network. Since 1997, Domain Direct has provided the Internet community with an affordable, easy to use way to register Internet domain names. More information on Domain Direct can be found at www.domaindirect.com.

About Name.Space:

Name.Space, based in New York City, has developed and deployed an advanced system of domain name registration, operating new Top Level Domains (TLDs) since 1996, lighting up new domain names in real time, bringing automation and high efficiency to the new nameservice industry. The universal domain name search engine, sWhois (smart whois) developed by Name.Space simplifies searching the world's domains and provides a public service by making services formerly reserved for UNIX UNIX

Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics).
 operators available to average users for free over the web. http://swhois.net www.name.space.com.

About CASDNS:

CASDNS, Inc. is a subsidiary of Computer Analytical Systems, Inc a leading consultant in Wide-Area Network/Data Communications Integration. CASDNS was recently certified by ICANN as a post test-bed domain name registrars for .com, .net and .org extensions. They are one of the area's leading Internet service providers Internet service provider (ISP)

Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password.
, serving Louisville and Bardstown, KY. CASDNS also offers the design and implementation of Internet Websites and company Intranets. For more information visit www.casdns.net

iAtlas Infolens and the iAtlas Registry are trademarks of iAtlas Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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