ICANN-Accredited Corporation Service Company®, the Sole Registered Agent and Domain Name Registrar Combination Delivering Name Management and Entity Management Services, to Add .eu, .travel, .post, .mobi and .jobs to suite of Top Level Domains for Customers

Wilmington, DE, December 16, 2004 -- Corporation Service Company® (CSC), the leading registered agent, providing a portfolio of services including compliance and governance; litigation and matter management; corporate legal; UCC and motor vehicle; and IP management, today announced it plans to offer five new top level domains (TLDs): .travel, .post, .eu, .mobi and .jobs, to its product and services suite in 2005.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced it began commercial and technical negotiations with .travel and .post sponsors in October of this year. ICANN will undertake this process with each of the sponsors for the five domain names, and is in active negotiations with the European Registry for Internet Domains (EURid) regarding .eu. Each domain name will undergo a sunrise period (or pre-registration period), which will allow trademark holders to register the domain names associated with their marks. Without this period, trademark holders could be subjected to the unscrupulous practices of so-called cybersquatters who buy newly released domain names associated with particular brands or trademarks of certain companies and ransom them to those companies.

Once the TLDs qualify for purchase, CSC, an ICANN-accredited registrar, plans to offer them to customers worldwide. CSC already offers numerous general TLDs (gTLDS) and country code TLDs (ccTLDs) through its subsidiary, Corporate Domains Inc.

“Given our excellent customer service, our corporate focus, and our auto-renewal policy which does not allow customers’ domain names to lapse unintentionally, CSC has positioned itself as the registrar of choice for large companies with complex domain name business requirements,” said Gretchen M. Olive, Associate General Counsel, IP Services, at CSC, and a recent IP Law & Business panelist in Washington DC on “Safeguarding Your Customer Data While Protecting Your IP on the Internet,” and moderator of “Somebody's Using My Brand on the Web! Now What?” at the October 2004 ACC annual meeting in Chicago. “Analysis shows our services are valued most by companies in growth mode.” Ms. Olive refers to a study done at the Harvard Law School. According to a 2003 study of domain name registrars by Ben Edelman at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, “Corporate Domains shows increased popularity among companies with rising ranks (among the Fortune 1000*) versus among those with falling ranks.”

Brief Overview of planned usages for TLDs:

• .eu – intended to be used as a pan-European alternative TLD by businesses and individuals in Europe, but will not replace existing European ccTLDs
• .travel – will be available to businesses in the travel industry
• .post – intended to be used primarily by the postal service and related organizations
• .mobi – will be focused on the mobile phone industry
• .jobs – will be available to businesses focusing on jobs and careers

About Corporation Service Company

Corporation Service Company®, headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware and operating in all 50 states, is the leading and largest US-owned provider of corporate governance and compliance, registered agent, litigation management, IP management, entity management and law office services for Fortune 500* and other companies, and law firms. Founded in 1899, CSC serves over 50% of Fortune 500 companies and is the service provider of choice for most of the Fortune 500 companies that have switched registered agent in 2003. CSC also represents numerous smaller companies. The company is privately-held. CSC also offers services relating to special purpose entities, Delaware statutory trusts, headquarters management corporations, public record document retrieval, motor vehicle titling and registration, Uniform Commercial Code and lien related searching and Filing, and electronic service of process (SOP), including its Custom SOP product suite. For further information, visit the company Website www.incspot.com.