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Momentous Selects Mailshell to Provide Premium Email Service for Dot-name Domains
SANTA CLARA, CA., January 14, 2002 - Momentous.ca,
owner of the leading Canadian domain registrar and the
world's first authorized dot-name registrar, today announced
its selection of Mailshell (http://www.mailshell.com)
to provide email services for its dot-name registrants.
Mailshell provides "Intelligent Email" services for
its registrars, ISPs and email providers, and will create
private-labeled email services for Momentous operating
subsidiaries Namescout.com and Internic.ca. The service
will apply to dot-name addresses such as john@smith.name.
Terms were not disclosed.
We chose Mailshell for its advanced email functionality
and experience providing consumer email services," said
Rob Hall, president and CEO of Momentous.ca and subsidiaries
Namescout.com and Internic.ca. "We think that Mailshell's
innovative set of features will attract significantly
more orders than if we offered a standard email service."
In addition to Web-based email accounts with POP and
IMAP access, the companies will add a premium email
package for users who purchase the john.smith.name domain
enabling users to create any five aliases for their
domain such as family@john.smith.name or shopping@john.smith.name.
Premium features including encrypted email, message
tracking that lets users know exactly what date and
time their messages were opened, virus and email bug
protection, and increased storage space for emails so
that archived messages won't be lost or deleted are
also available from Mailshell.
"There is an obvious fit between the dot-name domain
and premium personalized email services," said Tonny
Yu, president and CEO of Mailshell. "By bundling many
premium email features into a turnkey package we're
able to help companies like Momentous achieve higher
transaction conversion rates and greater revenue per
user than other email services."
Momentous companies Namescout.com and Internic.ca
have been at the forefront of Internet development since
the earliest days. ICANN-accredited Namescout.com, one
of the world's top 50 registrars, was recently accredited
as the world's first registrar for the brand-new dot-name
domain, and has just been provisionally accredited by
the Australian Domain Authority (auDA) as one of Australia's
first wave of new dot-au registrars. Internic.ca was
Canada's first dot-ca accredited registrar and is now
Canada's leading dot-ca registrar. The companies serve
customers around the globe from offices in North America,
Australia and the Caribbean, and are today, they are
the world's only registrar group simultaneously accredited
by ICANN, CIRA, auDA and the Global Name Registry.
Mailshell is the leading provider of Intelligent Email
management services and revenue-generating, private-label
premium email packages. The service was recently dubbed
"priceless" by Forbes magazine and among "the best ways
to organize your email" and "the best ways to stop spam"
by The Wall Street Journal. Mailshell was founded in
January 1999. The company is, based in Santa Clara, Calif.,
with an additional office in San Francisco.
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Contact:
Lisa McAdam, Momentous.ca (613) 715-3544, lisa@momentous.ca
Stefan Pollack, Mailshell,
(310) 556-4443, press@stefan.mailshell.com
