Everyone.net Takes the Bite Out of Spam and Viruses for Dog.com's Email Users; Everyone.net's Flexible Partnering Program Allows Dog.com to Continue Offering Email to Its Users.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 2003 Everyone.net, the leading provider of branded email for web site owners, and Dog.com, the prime destination for dog lovers, today announced the continuation of Dog.com email services. The services were originally scheduled to end on May 31, 2003. Now, visitors to Dog.com can continue to get a memorable email address See Internet address. at Dog.com (e.g. rex@dog.com) while receiving premium email service from Everyone.net. Dog.com ran its email service, DogMail, using commercially available software in-house on their servers. Over time, DogMail grew until its size and the invasion of spam and viruses became more than Dog.com could handle for its loyal users. "We started offering the free DogMail service in May of 1998. The challenges and costs associated with providing a free e-mail See Internet e-mail service. service have certainly changed since the early days," said Jim McNelis, president of Dog.com. "With the ever-increasing proliferation of spam and email viruses, the cost and increased demand on network resources resulted in costs to high to continue operating the service. Everyone.net offered us a partnership that enabled us to keep DogMail up and running, eliminating our cost of providing service while giving our customers more advanced features including SpamShield Pro, Sophos Anti-Virus, large email storage and the ability to use virtually any email client. Additionally, we have been able to free up human and network resources dedicated to email that can be deployed on other projects for Dog.com" "Everyone.net is pleased that Dog.com has adopted us as their new home for DogMail," said Josh Mailman, VP of Marketing of Everyone.net. "Many site owners are finding it difficult to offer quality branded services on their site. At the same time, web users are searching for new ways to uniquely identify themselves with something other than a generic email address. Everyone.net allows virtually any domain owner to offer quality email services at a memorable domain for little to no investment on the domain owner's part. Our flexible set of email services can be customized to match the look and feel of the domain and can be branded to the domain name's URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , creating even greater stickiness to the owner's site." Everyone.net offers a variety of packages for domain owners including: Sponsored Mail -- For individuals, companies and organizations that seek a simple email solution that can result in increased profit from both subscription and advertising revenue, Everyone.net's Sponsored Mail delivers this ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). while increasing the loyalty of existing visitors and attracting new ones. Qualifying sites receive this service is free of charge. Sponsored Mail is ideal for an array of Web presences that are in need of adhesive site traffic. Group Mail -- For affinity groups and organizations, Group Mail provides the only email service designed to increase membership and reinforce brand loyalty. The service starts at $9.99 a month for 100 mailboxes. Outsourced Mail -- Private label email for service provider, web designers and sites that want to integrate premium private label email into their site. All email service offerings are available immediately at www.everyone.net. For a sampling of sites offering Everyone.net services visit www.everyonemail.net. To take home your very own Dog.com email address visit www.dogmail.com About Dog.com Dog.com, Inc. (www.dog.com) is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. located in Wilmington, Delaware. Dog.com's mission is to provide a focal point focal point n. See focus. for gathering news and information on all aspects and perspectives pertaining to dogs. The Company sells a large selection of themed gifts, software, and decorative accessories that allow dog-people to express how they feel about their dogs and their lifestyle. About Everyone.net Everyone.net (www.everyone.net) is based in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , and offers custom email services to everyone from 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. , Web hosts and Web sites to businesses, organizations and individuals. Its cost effective solutions are built on a highly scalable infrastructure and include advanced services like IMAP IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) A protocol used to access a directory listing. LDAP support is implemented in Web browsers and e-mail programs, which can query an LDAP-compliant directory. as well as anti-spam and virus protection. Everyone.net has provisioned over 22 million mailboxes for over 100,000 domains since 1998. The company's financial backers include two premier venture capital firms Name Location Founding date Managing Partners/Directors Specialty Capital managed 5AM Ventures Menlo Park, CA; Waltham, MA 2002 John Diekman, PhD (managing partner), Scott Rocklage, PhD (managing partner), Andrew Schwab (managing partner) life sciences $200M [1] , El Dorado Ventures and Labrador Ventures. |
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