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STRATO BRINGS INNOVATIVE WEB OFFERING TO THE UK

www.strato-hosting.co.uk - 100,000 free .eu domains available

LONDON, 07/04/06
STRATO, one of Europe´s leading Internet Service Providers is breaking into the UK market with a complete range of innovative web products. As part of the launch the company is offering 100,000 free .eu domains on a first come first serve basis. The domains will be available across Europe from Friday 7th April 2006. Already a leader in the European web hosting and .eu domains, STRATO is providing UK consumers and businesses with packages for web hosting, domain name registration, and user-friendly software to launch an online presence from a single source – all at competitive prices.

STRATO is launching:

STRATO EasyWeb – the customised package for web novices. Provides everything you need to get started on the web for just £3.49 a month.
STRATO PowerWeb – the complete service package for every level of user – from home and SOHO to Enterprises. PowerWeb supplies 3 domains (www.desireddomain.eu), provides up to 3,000 Mb of web space, efficient communication features and PHP5 and Perl programming scripts for just £6.99 a month.
STRATO AdvancedWeb – for demanding web hosting professionals who need a customer-friendly but top quality web presence – for just £10.99 a month.

Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO, said: "We have tailored our portfolio to meet the sophisticated requirements of the UK market and believe we are set to take significant market share. STRATO has already set new standards for performance, price and customer service across Europe and we can now offer unbeatable prices to the UK market. If you want a secure web presence tailored to your needs, all at a great price then STRATO is the obvious choice."

As part of the UK introduction STRATO is offering British businesses and consumers the opportunity to win one of 100,000 free .eu domains. STRATO is not only the first European internet service provider to file a .eu domain registration commercially on behalf of a company (www.synox.eu), but also the first German registrar to be accredited by EURid, the central allocation body for .eu domains based in Brussels.

STRATO’s services are covered by British Standard 7799 (BS7799) and the company has held ISO 9001 accreditation since 2000. STRATO´s web services are supported by dedicated high performance datacentres in Germany, while customer service is provided via a dedicated 24/7 free phone line – 00800 800 700 00. For more information please visit: www.strato-hosting.co.uk

Notes to Editors

STRATO is one of Europe’s leading web hosts and in June 2006 was recognized 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

Information about STRATO can be found on the STRATO website at www.strato.eu / www.strato.com

For more information please contact:

Sneha Nagmoti/Richard Warner
T: 0207 388 9988
E: nagmoti@spreckley.co.uk

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