Hostopia.com and eNIC Corporation form a key strategic alliance that will position eNIC as a leading global service provider

Fort Lauderdale, FL (September 7, 2000) Hostopia.com announces a key strategic partnership with eNIC Corporation, the largest registry and registrar of country code top-level domains (TLD) in the US, and the third largest in the world. This partnership with Hostopia.com, one of the world's leaders in hosting and email solutions, will enable eNIC to further diversify their portfolio, and enhance their product/service attractiveness to their customers. In addition, Hostopia.com will offer their customers the opportunity to purchase dot-cc domain names.

"Hosting is fast becoming one of the core functions of the domain name industry," says Brian Cartmell, CEO and Chairman of eNIC. "Hostopia.com was the perfect partner for us because they have the flexibility, pricing, structure and technical expertise to offer our dot-cc clients world-class hosting."

"A domain name registration without a hosting and email solution is an incomplete service," states Franc Nemanic, President of Hostopia.com. For this reason eNIC corporation approached Hostopia.com to integrate their leading services into one robust solution. "This partnership can be attributed to our private-branded, innovative, leading solution that will allow eNIC to leapfrog the technical development wall, saving them millions of dollars and years of development time." Nemanic adds, "Our email solutions are so easy to use and manage, a salesperson or administrative staff person can set it up in minutes with no training." eNIC now has access to the robust, redundant, proprietary technology architecture which powers the worry-free Hostopian solution.

In addition, Nemanic expressed his excitement at the new partnership, stating that Hostopia.com will now have the ability to expand their TLD offering by incorporating the .cc domain as a new alternative.

About Hostopia.com
Hostopia.com, a Delaware company, internationally situated in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Toronto, Canada (http://www.hostopia.com/) provides private-branded hosting, email and e-commerce solutions that specifically address the needs of ILECs/CLECs, ISPs, and other web service providers. Hostopia.com has partnered with over 100 CLECs, ISPs and domain registrars internationally, making it one of the fastest growing Webhosting companies in the world. The company was initially founded by Franc Nemanic with subsequent majority investment held by John Nemanic, Colin and Bill Campbell who founded Tucows Inc. and Internet Direct (LKC.V). Hostopia.com now introduces the next generation in Webhosting solutions to its strategic partners worldwide.

For more information about Hostopia.com, please visit http://www.hostopia.com or contact:

Franc Nemanic, President
Hostopia.com, Hosting Solutions
Phone: 1-800-322-9438 E-mail president@hostopia.com

About eNIC
eNIC, a privately held Internet company based in Seattle, Washington, is the worldwide registry of the Dot-cc TLD and is the registrar for second level domain names within the Dot-cc TLD. Brian Cartmell, the Chairman and CEO of eNIC, founded the company in October 1997, which now has more than 300,000 registered domains in the Dot-cc TKD alone. Registrants of Doc-cc domains include major corporations throughout the world including such notable companies as Intel Corporation, Amazon.com, Clear Channel Communications, Goodyear Tire & Rubber and the Coca-Cola Company.

As the Dot.cc registry, eNIC acts as the authoritative repository of all functional information relating to all Dot-cc domain names. The company markets Dot-cc domains worldwide in conjunction with its more than 7,000 affiliates and marketing partners.

For more information about eNIC, please visit http://www.enic.cc or contact:

Matthew Guiste, Director Business Development
ENIC Corporation
Phone: (206) 381-0437; E-mail matt@enic.cc

For more information, visit: www.hostopia.com