INSP News Today! Network Solutions Will Integrate InfoSpace.com's Private Label Content And Commerce Solution With Its Domain Name Registration Service
Network Solutions and Their ISP Partners Will Now be Able to Offer Their Customers the Ability to Build an Instant Portal Using InfoSpace.com's Content
And Commerce Solutions and Promote the Newly Created Web Site Through InfoSpace.com's Extensive Yellow Pages and ActiveShopper Distribution Network
REDMOND, Wash., June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Network Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: NSOL) and InfoSpace.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: INSP), a leading Internet infrastructure company, today announced a marketing agreement that allows Network Solutions and their ISP partners to provide their customers with the ability to instantly build a portal using InfoSpace.com's content and commerce solutions. Under this agreement these customers will be able to promote their Web sites on InfoSpace.com's extensive yellow pages and ActiveShopper distribution network. InfoSpace.com's affiliate network consists of more than 1,800 Web sites and Internet appliances. This agreement combines the companies' content, commerce and promotional services to make it easy for businesses and individuals to establish their Internet identities and quickly build and promote their Web sites.
As part of the two-year agreement:
* Network Solutions will integrate InfoSpace.com's "portal in a box" private label solution with its registration services for its customers and Internet Service Provider partners. InfoSpace.com provides Internet infrastructure services for commerce with ActiveShopper, community and personalization solutions such as address book, calendar and integrated content with broad appeal, such as maps, classifieds, real-time stock quotes, information on local businesses and events, weather forecasts and horoscopes, yellow pages and white pages
* Network Solutions will also integrate InfoSpace.com's ActivePromotion merchandising solution which will give new domain name registrants an opportunity to be promoted through InfoSpace.com's yellow pages distribution network
"This marketing agreement enables us to extend the reach of our infrastructure solutions to businesses and individuals who need to develop and promote their Web sites once they have registered their Web addresses," said Naveen Jain, chairman and CEO, InfoSpace.com. "As a leading Internet infrastructure company, we help Web sites offer more services to their users while they focus on their core competencies."
"We are very excited that businesses can now come to Network Solutions for a complete solution. Businesses can now register for a new domain name, build the Web site using InfoSpace.com's content and commerce solution and drive users to the Web site by promoting it on InfoSpace.com's extensive distribution network," said James P. Rutt, chief executive officer of Network Solutions. "Working with InfoSpace.com is a great opportunity for Network Solutions to extend our brand name through their strong affiliate network that includes America Online, Netscape, The Wall Street Journal and many more."
Network Solutions and InfoSpace.com will begin implementing the agreement later this month.
About InfoSpace.com, Inc.
InfoSpace.com is a leading Internet infrastructure company. InfoSpace.com provides private label solutions for content, community and commerce. InfoSpace.com's affiliate network consists of more than 1,800 Web sites and Internet appliances. The Company's affiliates include AOL, Netscape, Microsoft, Lycos, go2net Inc.'s MetaCrawler, Dow Jones (The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition), ABC LocalNet and CBS's affiliated TV stations. In addition, InfoSpace.com has agreements with a number of providers of Internet access devices including PCs by Acer America and The Pixel Company (for Packard Bell NEC), cellular phones by AT&T Wireless and UnWired Planet, pagers by WolfeTech (for Motorola), screen phones by InfoGear, Mitel, Mitsui and Lucent, television set-top boxes by American Interactive Media, @Home, Lucent, On Command, Planetweb and Source Media, online kiosks by King kiosk platform and Lexitech kiosk platform, and personal digital assistants by AT&T Wireless, InfoGear and Unwired Planet.
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