Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, today announced a new domain product, which is designed to make it easier for individuals and small businesses to establish their online presence for $9.95 per year. Additionally, Yahoo! has significantly enhanced its current e-mail and web hosting products with industry-leading bandwidth, storage and customer support.

Growing Marketplace
Yahoo! is rolling out the new domain product and pricing at a time of unprecedented growth in the market. In Q1 2004, 4.7 million new domain names were registered, bringing the number of domains purchased to more than 50,000 per day.*

"Yahoo! is addressing this rapidly growing marketplace with a superior product offering from a brand they can trust," said Rich Riley, vice president and general manager, Yahoo!. "We continue to innovate and deliver enhanced domain, e-mail and web hosting products at competitive prices to make it easy for consumers and small businesses to stake their claim on the Internet."

New Domain-Based Offerings
To address this growing market, Yahoo! is launching a new domain product that offers a rich set of features for only $9.95 per year. In addition to a domain name, customers receive:

• Toll-free, 24-hour phone support
• An easy-to-use control panel
• Full DNS management features
• A starter web page - a professionally-designed web page to serve as a placeholder or stand-in until a site is published

Yahoo! is also launching a new domain-based e-mail product, Yahoo! Custom Mailbox, as a solution for individuals who want a personalized e-mail address (e.g. you@your-domain.com). For $34.95 per year, customers receive a domain name and e-mail address.

Industry-Leading Enhancements
Yahoo! Web Hosting, an industry-leading web hosting service known for its ease-of-use and powerful web site building tools, now offers customers even more value, at the same competitive price points. Starting at $11.95 per month, Yahoo! Web Hosting includes a domain name and e-mail, and now provides:

• Up to 39x more disk space and 5x more bandwidth to accommodate large, multi-media sites
• Enhanced e-mail features including additional e-mail addresses and 2 GB of storage per account (a nearly 80x increase)

Yahoo! has also enhanced the features and support for Yahoo! Business Mail. Priced at $9.95 per month, Business Mail features domain-based e-mail hosting and now offers:

• 10 e-mail addresses - 2x the number of e-mail addresses previously available
• 2 GB of disk space - a nearly 80x increase
• 4-hour toll-free phone support

As with all of Yahoo! domain-based products, customers get industry leading mail features such as:

• Increased e-mail storage with 2 GB of disk space
• 24-hour toll-free customer support
• POP and web mail access
• SpamGuard Plus, which consistently filters more than 95% of spam
• Automatic virus screening and cleaning for e-mail attachments

Specific package details are available at http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/.

As part of the product launch, Yahoo! also announced the "Yahoo! Domain Name Giveaway" sweepstakes program that encourages consumers and small businesses alike to register for a new domain name. Through an online promotion, 4,000 consumers who sign up for a new domain before September 15, 2004 will win a free year registration for their domain. In addition, each consumer who registers for a domain through the URL below will be entered into a sweepstakes for a chance to "strike gold" with a free trip for two to Las Vegas. No purchase is necessary to participate in the sweepstakes, and full details and official rules can be found at http://promotions.yahoo.com/goldrush.