IDC Ranks Verio Among Largest Web Hosting Providers

ENGLEWOOD, CO, October 12, 2004 - (HostReview.com) - Verio, a subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation and a leading provider of global IP solutions, today announced that its PowerPlatform Hosting framework was awarded the 2004 Innovation Award from Technology Marketing Corporation's (TMC®) TMC Labs. The TMC Labs Innovation Awards honor products and solutions that demonstrate innovation, unique features and significant contributions toward improving technology. Of the hundreds of products reviewed and considered for the award by the judging panel, only a select few were chosen as winners.

PowerPlatform Hosting, designed to help enterprise customers with their business Web hosting requirements, comprises four key components: hosting, managed services, support and PowerPortal, a customer service and support portal that provides a 'dashboard' view into a customer's systems, for monitoring and performance of their infrastructure and services. This framework simplifies and extends Verio's range of managed hosting products for midsize to larger enterprises, giving customers the ability to build out their infrastructure on-demand by drawing on modular technology building blocks, tiered support and enhanced services.

TMC judges recognized PowerPlatform for its modular nature, making it suitable for both mid-market and higher-end customers, as well as for some more basic dedicated hosting customer needs. Additionally, TMC Labs noted the solution's wrap-around service level agreements; tiered support and enhanced services, such as monitoring and reporting, managed security and storage solutions; and Verio's PowerPortal, for customer insight into a solution's health.

"TMC is proud to present the 2004 Innovation Award to Verio's PowerPlatform Hosting solutions. The award reiterates Verio's leadership status in the North American Web hosting and service provider market," said TMC President Rich Tehrani. "The award also recognizes that Verio provides customers the best possible offerings to grow their businesses and to prepare for the next generation of hosting."

"Verio is both thrilled and honored to receive industry recognition for its advancements and foresight in modular Web hosting, and the TMC Labs Innovation Award underscores the efforts of our talented team" said Mark Teflian, senior vice president of global solutions for Verio. "Hosting is the cornerstone of our business, and we will continue to produce the innovations that provide our customers the most flexible and rock solid solutions available."

Verio was also recently recognized by International Data Corporation (IDC), for its ranking as the sixth largest hosting services provider in the U.S. According to a recent report from IDC, Verio's strong position in the hosting market is attributed to more small, midsize and large enterprises relying on the company's wide range of services, award-winning customer service and network reliability that set it part from other Web hosting companies in the market.

IDC predicts the U.S. Web hosting services market will grow to $6.1 billion in 2004 - up 10.6 percent from $5.5 billion in 2003 - and will increase to $10.4 billion by 2008.

About Verio
Verio Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications (NTT Com), which provides complementary global network access reaching over 200 countries worldwide. Verio is one of the world's largest operators of Web sites for businesses and a leading provider of global IP solutions. NTT Com and Verio market their global IP solutions under the NTT/VERIO brand. The company offers businesses a broad range of Internet services, including Web hosting, dedicated access, virtual private networks, and managed service offerings, among other enhanced services. Verio supports its operations with highly reliable and scalable global infrastructure and systems including the NTT/VERIO Global IP Network, and provides Web hosting services to customers in more than 146 countries. The combination of Verio and NTT Com offers services to meet the growing and diverse needs of all businesses, including small to medium businesses, large global enterprises and multi-national corporations. More information can be found at www.verio.com and www.ntt.com/index-e.html.

About TMC
Since 1972, Technology Marketing Corporation (TMCä) has produced industry-leading trade magazines and events focused on technology and telecommunications. TMCä publishes two magazines: Customer Inter@ction Solutionsä and Internet Telephonyâ , and the online publications, WifiTelephony.com, The VoIP Developer Channel, Planet PDAä Magazine and BiometriTechä Magazine. TMCä is also the first publisher to test new products in its own on-site laboratories, TMC Labsä, and provide factual and unbiased product reviews.  TMC produces INTERNET TELEPHONYâ Conference & Expo, The VoIP Developer Conference(tm), Speech-World Conference, IP Contact Center Summit, WiMAXcon, and The Global Call Center Outsourcing Summit(tm). TMCnet.com publishes more than 25 topical online newsletters. For more information about TMC, visit its Web site at www.tmcnet.com.