STRATO AG

STRATO receives second Web Host Directory award for number one power and utilities

19th December 2006 - STRATO, one of Europe’s leading web hosts, has been named the number one Unix Web Hosting provider in the UK by leading site, the Web Host Directory, part of the Web Host Directory group of companies.

This neutral customer product site awards the web hosts in each of its categories by tabulating votes received from visitors and reviewers to the site.

Each web host is given a rating of one to ten in six areas of performance, including cost, features, support, reliability and speed. The votes are tabulated and double checked for accuracy and duplicates from the same voter are removed.

The Web Host Directory Review Board then determine the final winners through a combination of customer votes, customer reviews, and analysis of the nominees websites.

Damian Schmidt, CEO of STRATO, said: “This award for first rate power and utilities perfectly complements our previous Web Host Directory award for budget web hosting. STRATO considers the UK market very important and endorsement from our UK customers is both very positive and valued. We are glad that our products meet the requirements of the UK market in quality, cost and service and that we cater well for both beginners and professionals. Almost 10 years of experience in web hosting together with this award further position us as market leader for quality and good value web hosting.”

Notes to Editors

• STRATO is one of Europe’s leading web hosting providers 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
• Besides complete domain packages and DSL broadband access, STRATO markets high-quality servers and solutions in the area of e-commerce
• 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
• 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: freenet.de is one of the few providers to have its own network and hence a powerful infrastructure for data and speech exchange. This enables freenet.de to offer customers throughout the group optimum tariff plans and the highest level of performance as well as innovative products like the DSL telephony package iPhone