Network Solutions Adds to Executive Ranks.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2000

Network Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSOL), the world's leading registrar of domain names, announced the appointment of new executives to its Registrar and Registry businesses and to its corporate executive team.

The NSI Registrar appointed Michael Kyle, vice president, Customer Service, Shelton Shugar, vice president, Engineering, and Tom van Gorder, vice president, Sales and Business Development, all reporting to Doug Wolford, general manager. The NSI Registry named Adam Zimmerman to vice president, Registry Business Operations, and Ari Balogh to vice president, Registry Engineering, both reporting to general manager Bruce Chovnick. New to the corporate executive team are David Graves, vice president, Corporate Administration, reporting to general counsel Jon Emery, and Mark Kosters, vice president, Research reporting to chief technology officer Dave Holtzman.

As vice president, Customer Service, Michael Kyle will oversee all aspects of the NSI Registrar's customer service programs. He brings more than 24 years of customer service experience to the position, joining Network Solutions from the Charles Schwab Corporation where he served as vice president, National Investor Services, responsible for the operations of a seven-day, 24-hour service center. Previously, Kyle served five years at Sprint Corporation where he ran the Priority Service Center, and was at the Xerox Corporation for 10 years where he held several positions in business operations.

Tom van Gorder, vice president, Sales and Business Development, is responsible for the revenue growth of the NSI channel partner program and the addition of new partners to the program. van Gorder will also focus on selling NSI value-added products and services such as NSI's ImageCafe, dot com directory(TM), and idNames(TM) services. He joins Network Solutions with over 17 years of experience in the sales and business development area, having worked with companies such as West Group (A division of The Thomson Corporation), Disclosure, Inc. (A division of Primark Corporation) and LEXIS-NEXIS. Most recently, he was executive vice president and general manager of start-up NCI Information Systems.

Shelton Shugar joined the NSI Registrar in December 1999 to oversee engineering, primarily software development for new products. Among Shugar's major goals for 2000 is to build the next generation software systems to support future products. Shugar brings 17 years of experience, most recently from Mitchell International (A division of The Thomson Corporation) where he served as chief information officer. Previously, he was chief technology office for Gale Research. Prior positions included director of development for America Online.

As vice president, Registry Business Operations, Adam Zimmerman is responsible for leading the operating activities of the new Registry business. He joined Network Solutions in February 1999 as director of business operations of the Internet Technology Services business. Prior to joining Network Solutions, Mr. Zimmerman was at the General Electric Company where he led the development of several new Internet-based service offerings. Ari Balogh was promoted to vice president, Registry Engineering. Ari joined the company in 1998 and has served as director of systems architecture, director of quality assurance and director of infrastructure.

Dave Graves was promoted to vice president, Corporate Administration, from his previous position as head of the Business Affairs Office, where since 1993 he has been instrumental in setting many of the domain name registration policies that guided the company through the tremendous growth of the Internet. In his new role, Mr. Graves is responsible for oversight of corporate and policy contract compliance, including the agreements between Network Solutions and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Graves has been with Network Solutions since 1990.

Mark Kosters, also a veteran of Network Solutions and a well-known member of key Internet organizations including the IETF and NANOG, has been promoted to vice president, Research, within the Chief Technology Organization. Mr. Kosters most recently served as chief engineer for registration services, responsible for a large part of the applications that define registration operations. Previously, he served as senior engineer for the Department of Defense Network Information Center, where he developed the Whois server that is still used today.

About Network Solutions

Founded in 1979, Network Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSOL) pioneered the development of registering Web addresses ending in .com, .net, .org and .edu and is the world's leading Registrar with more than 8.1 million net registrations. To meet the needs of corporations worldwide, Network Solutions' idNames also provides domain name registration services for all available country-code Top-Level Domains, for example, .uk (United Kingdom), .fr (France) and .de (Germany). Network Solutions additionally plays a critical role in the infrastructure of the Internet through its Registry services. Network Solutions' Registry customers include all the registrars of domain names ending in .com, .net and .org. Network Solutions also provides Internet Technology Services that assist large commercial organizations in the evolution and management of their Internet technologies. For more information, see the http://www.netsol.com/nsi Web site.

Network Solutions registers the majority of Web addresses worldwide through various channels, including nearly 240 companies in over 30 countries in its Premier Program and over 41,000 companies in the Affiliate Program. Network Solutions has created value-added small business solutions through agreements with leading companies such as American Express (NYSE: AXP), IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Netscape. Through its Alliance Program, Network Solutions works closely with EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK), Interliant Inc. (Nasdaq: INIT), and Interland, Inc. Network Solutions also has entered into marketing agreements with companies like AltaVista and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO).