STRATO AG

STRATO’S NEW ENTRYWEB FOR THE UK

Three-month homepage and web hosting trial offer

STRATO, one of Europe’s leading web hosts, is offering UK consumers the opportunity to create their own ‘virtual home’ with a private homepage on the Internet for just 99p this Autumn. STRATO’s EntryWeb is a comprehensive package which includes a domain, webspace and blogging facility and lets consumers try out a virtual presence for size over three months without making any commitment.

With blogging and personal homepages the key UK trend for Autumn/Winter 2006, STRATO says that everyone should have an online presence. CEO Damian Schmidt explains: “When a 79 year old grandfather joins the ‘Internet Generation’ by video blogging, it shows us that more people than ever want to get started on the web simply, quickly and easily. We have developed EntryWeb to give UK consumers a taste of web hosting. It’s a complete test package with everything they need to get online and create their own ‘virtual home’ simply and easily.”

STRATO’s key steps for a virtual home are

• Decide to join the 13.9million Brits (Office for National Statistics) who are already online
• Take up the STRATO EntryWeb offer to ‘test the water’ and bring your thoughts and ideas online simply and easily
• Select your own address which is the personal domain – make it individual, personal and unique – to your virtual home and use it as your very personal email adress in the future
• Enjoy the experience secure in the fact that STRATO provides all its customers with full data security services
• If you just want to share and discuss your thoughts … start your own blog as the easiest way of getting familiar with the world of wehobsting
• If you are feeling creative use website creator STRATO LivePages (included in the EntryWeb pack) to give your ‘virtual home’ designer appeal
• If you want to extend your trial with EntryWeb you can for another three months and 99p
• If you’ve really caught the bug after the initial EntryWeb trial then upgrade at any time to one of STRATO’s other packages – STRATO MailDomain, STRATO EasyWeb, STRATO PowerWeb, STRATO AdvancedWeb or STRATO EnterpriseWeb

Notes to Editors

• STRATO is one of Europe’s leading web hosts and in June 2006 was recognised as Germany’s number one web host provider by the eco Association of the German Internet industry, for their ongoing focus on excellent quality and customer service
• STRATO is based in Berlin and currently has two million domains and one million customer contracts. STRATO operations currently exist across Europe, including Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, France and the Netherlands
• STRATO was the first major European web host to receive the internationally coveted German Technical Control Board seal “BS7799“ which is now ISO 27001:2005. The British standard certification was awarded by the independent German testing organisation TÜV SÜD, for the reliability of its computing centres, security and data availability
• Partners of STRATO are e.g. Sun Microsystems, Cisco, AMD, Adobe and Microsoft
• Besides complete domain packages and DSL broadband access, STRATO markets high-quality servers and solutions in the area of e-commerce
• STRATO is a one hundred per cent subsidiary of freenet.de, a listed Internet and telecommunications company with over ten million customers
• STRATO benefits from the competence of its parent company and utilises existing group synergies to offer its own customers exceptional services