Business Editors & Technology Writers
PURCHASE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 4, 2000
Deal With TeleDomains.com Gives Interliant's Web Hosting Customers
Toll-Free Numbers That Match Their Domain Names
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.
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