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Attention Technology Reporters:

Namescout Leaps into Forefront of dot-au Market

Australia's price leader combines lowest prices and efficient service to emerge as one of dot-au's top new registrars

Wilmington, DE and Canberra, Australia/ July 9, 2002 - Namescout.com.au, part of one of the 
world's fastest-growing group of domain registrars, has leaped into the forefront of new .au 
registrations in the first week of live operation of the newly deregulated dot-au registry.



"Namescout.com.au offers Australia's lowest domain registration prices, combined with efficient 
service and full customer support," said Rob Hall, President and CEO of Namescout.com.  "We 
are delighted to be able to bring our international experience and resources to the newly 
revitalized dot-au domain name spaces, and delighted at the very encouraging response by 
Australians to our prices and service.  We have registered hundreds of new dot-au domain 
names in the first week of the new registry, placing us amongst the leaders in the new 
dot-au marketplace."



www.Namescout.com.au is one of nine fully-accredited dot-au registrars.  According to an 
independent, third-party comparison of prices offered by the nine dot-au registrars and 
authorized resellers - available at http://www.whatsinaname.com.au/ - Namescout is clearly
 Australia's price leader.  (In fact, that comparison shows average mark-ups charged by
 Namescout's competitors ranging from three times Namescout's mark-up to 25 times Namescout's.)

"Our international experience and resources enable us to offer high-quality service and gold-standard
 customer support at very competitive prices," said Hall.   "Better service, more choice and lower
 prices are the vision that auDA, the Australian Domain Authority, has for the commercialization of the
 dot-au domain name spaces, and Namescout is dedicated to delivering on that promise." 

"We are particularly pleased with the large volume of .id.au registrations by individual Australians eager 
to use the new address to broadcast their affiliation with Australia -more than 40% of our new registrations
 are in the .id.au space."

www.Namescout.com and its affiliated companies have long been at the forefront of Internet development,
 offering industry-leading full customer service and a full suite of domain registration, hosting, email
 and related services.  ICANN-accredited www.Namescout.com is ranked by the authoritative State of the Domain 
report as one of the world's fastest-growing registrars, and among the world's Top 50 registrars.
  Namescout.com was the world's first accredited dot-name registrar and among the world's first accredited
 dot-us registrars, and is fully accredited by the Australian Domain Authority (auDA) in the first wave
 of new dot-au registrars.  Its sister company is Canada's first dot-ca accredited registrar and is Canada's
 leading dot-ca registrar.  The companies serve customers around the globe from offices in North America
 and the Caribbean, and are the world's only registrar group simultaneously accredited by ICANN, NeuStar, CIRA,
 auDA and the Global Name Registry.
 

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For more information, or to arrange a
media interview, please visit www.namescout.com or contact Rick Anderson at rick@namescout.com.au
or +1.613. 860.0209