Yahoo! Launches new $9.95 per year domain product
Significant Upgrades to Domain, E-mail and Web Hosting Services
to Enhance Ease-of-Use, Storage and
Customer Support
Sunnyvale, CA -- August 17, 2004 -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO -
News), a leading global Internet company, today announced a new
domain product (http://domains.yahoo.com), 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
(http://webhosting.yahoo.com/) with industry-leading bandwidth,
storage and customer support.
Growing Marketplace
Laptop Battery 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.*
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Thinkpad "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."
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Laptop Computers 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:
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Laptop Computer * Toll-free, 24-hour phone support
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Desktop Computer * An easy-to-use control panel
Notebooks * Full DNS management features
Lenovo * A starter web page - a professionally-designed web page to
serve as a placeholder or stand-in until a site is published
Hard Drive 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.
Travelstar Industry-Leading Enhancements
Gateway 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:
Laptop Parts * Up to 39x more disk space and 5x more bandwidth to accommodate
large, multi-media sites
Software * Enhanced e-mail features including additional e-mail addresses
and 2 GB of storage per account (a nearly 80x increase)
Hard Drives 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:
Electronics * 10 e-mail addresses - 2x the number of e-mail addresses
previously available
Canon * 2 GB of disk space - a nearly 80x
increase
Desktop Pc * 24-hour toll-free phone support
Desktop Computers As with all of Yahoo! domain-based products, customers get
industry leading mail features such as:
Think Pad * Increased e-mail storage with 2 GB of disk
space
Repair * 24-hour toll-free customer support
Data Recovery * POP and web mail access
Cisco * SpamGuard Plus, which consistently filters more than 95% of
spam
Keyboard * Automatic virus screening and cleaning for e-mail
attachments
Monitor Specific package details are available at
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/.
Desktop 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.
Infosys * - VeriSign - Domain Industry Brief, June
2004
Refurbished Laptops About Yahoo!
Wipro Yahoo! Inc. is a leading provider of comprehensive online
products and services to consumers and businesses worldwide. Yahoo!
is the No. 1 Internet brand globally and the most trafficked
Internet destination worldwide. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif.,
Yahoo!'s global network includes 25 world properties and is
available in 13 languages.
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