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Attention Technology Reporters:

Namescout Accepting Dot-US Prebookings - Reservations for "America's Internet Address" Now Available

Wilmington, Delaware / Jan 24, 2002 - Namescout.com is now accepting prebookings for dot-US
Internet domains.  Dot-US is the official country code for the USA.  Under a new registry
system officially sponsored by the US Department of Commerce, dot-US will become much more
widely available later this year.
 
 "There is going to be extraordinary demand for dot-US," said Rob Hall, President and CEO of
 Namescout.com.  "It is destined to become America's address on the Internet."
Dot-US is the only means to establish an American address on the Internet.  All U.S. residents,
government entities, public service organizations, and businesses will be able to establish an
American identity on the Internet with a short memorable domain name. (e.g., johnsmith.us,
publicservice.us, mycompany.us).  Any U.S. citizen or resident, as well as any business or
organization, including federal, state, and local government with a bona fide presence in the
United States can register a dot-US domain name. 
Prebookings for dot-US are now available online at www.namescout.com.  
"Each time a new domain space has opened up (such as dot-biz, dot-name, dot-info and dot-ca),
there is a line-up of people wishing to be among the first to book the most sought-after names
in the new space," said Hall.  "Given that over 100 million Americans used the Internet last
month, demand for dot-US is going to be especially intense.  Our prebooking service gives people
and businesses an orderly opportunity to book the names they wish, as soon as they can."

"Not only is the new dot-us domain proudly American, but there is a lot more choice than with,
for example, the dot-com world where tens of millions of good domain names have already been
taken," added Hall.

Namescout.com has been at the forefront of Internet development since the earliest days.
ICANN-accredited and ranked among the world's top 50 registrars, Namescout.com was recently
accredited as the world's first registrar for the brand-new dot-name domain and has been
provisionally accredited by the Australian Domain Authority (auDA) among Australia's first
wave of new dot-au registrars.  Sister company Internic.ca was Canada's first dot-ca accredited
registrar and is now Canada's leading dot-ca registrar.  Owned by Momentous.ca of Ottawa, Canada,
Namescout.com and Internic.ca serve customers around the globe from offices in North America,
Australia and the Caribbean.  They are the world's only registrar group simultaneously accredited
by ICANN, 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 Lisa McAdam at lisa@namescout.com or 613.715.3544