Interliant
Offers Customers Unique Service to Help Build Their Brands
PURCHASE,
N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2000-- Interliant, Inc. (NASDAQ:INIT), a leading
global application service provider (ASP), today announced an alliance with
TeleDomains.com, one of the premier online providers of custom toll-free number
services, that will enable Interliant's Web hosting customers to obtain
toll-free numbers that match their registered domain names. The service will
help users of Interliant's INIT Host solution strengthen both their online and
offline presence with an easily remembered way for customers to access their
products and services.
With
the new service, Interliant's Web hosting customers can click on a hyperlink at
Interliant's hosting site and request a toll-free phone number that matches
their domain name. For example, if a customer registers the domain
www.mybrand.com, the TeleDomains.com service will assist the company by
creating and establishing a toll-free telephone number of 800/MyBrand and/or a
toll-free fax number, 800/FaxMyBrand.
"Finding
unique new ways to attract and serve customers is essential as both brick and
mortar and online enterprises seek to increase their e-business sales and
revenues in relation to their competition," said Steve Spokane, product
marketing director, Web hosting, for Interliant. "The TeleDomains.com
service is a great enhancement to our hosting package because it provides a
simple, high-impact way for our customers to build their brand and communicate
with their customers. It also demonstrates that Interliant is going above and
beyond hosting and managing Web sites and applications to provide value-add
services that help customers execute their business strategies."
"We're
excited about working with Interliant to offer their customers a tool that
helps differentiate them in the e-commerce marketplace," said Bernard
Sonnenschein, president of TeleDomains.com. "We get emails from users
every day thanking us for offering a service that helps customers find them
more easily. And the online sign-up process is painless, consisting of a few
lines to fill in with no signature needed. All of the processing and set-up
work are done by TeleDomains.com for the user."
The
TeleDomains.com service will be offered to new Interliant customers as part of
the domain name registration process. It also will be accessible to existing
customers through the Interliant hosting site. Once a customer places an order
for the service through the online request form, TeleDomains.com will contact
that customer by email with a matching toll-free telephone number within three
business days. If the number is acceptable, the customer can activate the
number online, and it will become operational within five business days.
Interliant
and TeleDomains.com will share in revenue streams resulting from both initial
proceeds as customers sign up for the service as well as recurring revenue as
customers continue to use the service. TeleDomains.com, a division of
NetUpstarts Inc., is a New York-based business offering a new unique patent
pending service that matches a business' domain name, web site address, company
product or service mark with a customized toll-free number. With TeleDomains,
businesses can get a domain name and associated low cost, customized, catchy
toll free phone and/or fax numbers that match its domain name, web site address
or company product or service mark. TeleDomains help businesses reinforce their
brand name and recognition while offering their customers free and easy
telephone access to their products and services from anywhere in the United
States. About Interliant
Interliant,
Inc. (Nasdaq:INIT) is a leading global application service provider (ASP) and
pioneer in the ASP market. Interliant's INIT Solutions Suite includes messaging
and knowledge management, security, e-commerce, customer relationship
management, enterprise resource planning, distributed learning, Web-site
hosting and Web-based rental applications. Interliant, headquartered in
Purchase, NY, has forged strategic alliances with the world's leading software,
networking and hardware manufacturers including Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT), Dell
Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL), Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq:ORCL), BMC
Software (Nasdaq:BMCS), Network Solutions (Nasdaq:NSOL), IBM (NYSE:IBM), Sun
Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW), and Lotus Development Corp. For more
information about Interliant, visit www.interliant.com.
Interliant
is a registered trademark and INIT Solutions Suite is a trademark of
Interliant, Inc., in the US, other countries, or both. Other company, product,
and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.
This
press release contains forward-looking statements that can be identified by the
use of words such as "anticipate," "believe,"
"estimate," "expect," "intend," "may,"
"will," "plan," "forecast" and similar words and
expressions. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties
that may cause actual results, performance, achievements and the timing of
certain events to differ significantly from the results discussed or implied in
the forward-looking statements. Therefore, no forward-looking statement can be
guaranteed. Important factors to consider in evaluating such forward-looking
statements include changes in external competitive market factors, changes in
Interliant's business strategy or an inability to execute Interliant's strategy
due to unanticipated changes in its business, its industry or the economy in
general, unforeseen difficulties in integrating acquisitions and other factors
set forth more fully in Interliant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 1999 and other filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. It is not possible to foresee or identify all factors affecting
Interliant's forward-looking statements and investors therefore should not
consider any list of factors affecting Interliant's forward-looking statements
to be an exhaustive statement of risks, uncertainties or potentially inaccurate
assumptions. Interliant does not have a policy of updating or revising
forward-looking statements, and thus it should not be assumed that Interliant's
silence over time means that actual events are bearing out as expressed or
implied in such forward-looking statements.
CONTACT:
Interliant, Inc.
Media and Industry Analyst
Contact:
Rosanne Desmone,
703/762-1759
rdesmone@interliant.com
or
Investor Contact:
Beth O'Byrne, 914/640-9000
x211
bobyrne@interliant.com
