Philadelphia, PA (January 25, 2008) - GMX (Global Mail Exchange), the preferred email choice for more than 10 million Internet users, today announced the availability of its new free web email service for the US – GMX.com.  With online access from anywhere, GMX.com provides a flexible email application for private, semi-professional, and professional users.  GMX.com delivers a number of comfortable functions and time-saving mail management tools.  A focus of the new service is security.  In that, GMX draws on many years of email expertise and offers sophisticated spam and virus protection for up to 98 percent fewer spam emails. Besides the functions of a state-of-the-art web mail service, GMX.com provides a large selection of first choice addresses such as “name@gmx.com“.

A first version of the new email service can be seen at www.gmx.com.

About GMX

GMX (Global Mail Exchange) is a major branch of United Internet, a listed company, and a pioneer of communication via the Internet. With its reliable and powerful webmail system, GMX provides solutions for home users, as well as small and mid-size enterprises. Because GMX Mail is web-based, it's accessible from any computer connected to the Internet. Its features and convenience rival those of traditional client-based software that require installation on your computer.

GMX guarantees optimum performance with data centers located in Europe and the United States. In early 2008, GMX has unveiled a new, high-tech data center in Lenexa, Kansas to cater specifically to its US customers.

GMX respects customers' privacy and does not transfer any data to third party companies.

The United Internet Group was founded in 1988. Together with its branches 1&1 and Fasthosts, the Group offers the largest global web hosting service. The United Internet Group (listed on the stock exchange: ISIN DE0005089031) is highly profitable and has a market capitalization of approx. $5 billion as of October 31, 2007. The Group has over 3,500 employees at locations in America, Europe and Asia. United Internet's high performance data centers set extremely high standards worldwide with 40,000 hosted servers and a monthly volume of 6,500 terrabytes data transfer and over 5 billion e-mails.