Aplus.Net Introduces Multilingual Domain Names

San Diego, California -January 06, 2004- Aplus.Net (www.aplus.net), a leading Internet presence provider to small and medium-sized businesses, announced today the immediate availability of multilingual domain names.

Multilingual domain names are domain names written in native language characters that resolve the same way as any other domain name. The multilingual domain names are followed by .com or .net (i.e. .com) and are considered to be an easy way for international customers to read, type and remember a Web site.

"The world economy has become globalized and technology has changed the business infrastructure such that companies need to market themselves internationally," said Ivan Vachovsky, chief executive officer of Aplus.Net. "Companies that do not take the international online market seriously risk becoming irrelevant."

Multilingual domains are extremely beneficial to both English and non-English speaking businesses. They help the former to reach out to their non-English speaking target markets in a language that they can understand and they help non-English speaking businesses to reach out to local customers in their native language.

Domain names are also a critical part of corporate branding and identity on the Internet, so multilingual domain names are essential for companies looking to expand their reach in new and existing markets.

"Don't let another company register your brand in another language," said Ronan Winter, executive vice president of marketing and business development. "Registering your multilingual domain names with Aplus.Net is inexpensive and it's an easy way to protect your valuable brand identity!"

To learn more or to register a multilingual domain name, please visit: http://domains.aplus.net.

About Aplus.Net (www.aplus.net)

Aplus.Net is a leading provider of Internet services to small and medium-sized businesses. The company's headquarters are located in San Diego, CA with other offices in Anaheim, CA, Sacramento, CA, Atlanta, GA and Europe. Aplus.Net specializes in providing a complete Internet presence, including domain name registration, corporate identity on the Internet, matching e-mail addresses, web design, web hosting, e-commerce, credit card processing tools, and website maintenance. Aplus.Net is among the ten largest privately held web hosting and domain name registration companies in the USA and is a facilities based provider. The Company owns and operates its own data center and its own ICANN accredited domain names registrar (Names4Ever.com).