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Waltham, Massachusetts - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - November 29, 2006 - According to the most recent comScore Media Metrix report of Internet audience rankings for Oct. 2006, community destination and search engine, LYCOS, Inc.’s Angelfire web site, has again claimed the top spot as the number one community teen destination.

With 7.6 million monthly unique visitors, Angelfire on LYCOS continues to rank number one in the teen community category on comScore. Since 1995, teens and tweens have come to Angelfire for reliable hosting and cutting edge web building solutions. Angelfire continues to be a leading provider of web hosting, publishing and domain name services, featuring a full range of tools and services designed for web builders of all levels. In addition to state- of-the-art site-building tools, Angelfire’s award-winning Blog and Photo Album Builder tools allow members to quickly and easily publish their thoughts and pictures on the web, from a desktop or wireless device, leaving their mark from anywhere.

Brian Kalinowski, Chief Operating Officer for LYCOS, Inc. remarked, ”Angelfire has always been a standout favorite among the younger teen and tween demographic, while Tripod, our other community destination on LYCOS, skews slightly older. This marks the ninth consecutive month that Angelfire has taken the top spot in the teen community category. In fact, Tripod and Angelfire members combined account for more than 20 million monthly unique visitors, making LYCOS the third most popular community destination on the web.”

Recent eMarketer research states nearly one-third of teens watch TV on the Internet, while 35 percent watch online video content and movie trailers, indicating teens continue to be one of the key driving forces behind watching video online.

Mr. Kalinowski continued, ”In the coming weeks, you will see new enhancements to our watch and chat platform on LYCOS catering to the early adopters who make up the majority of our Angelfire audience, positioning LYCOS in a prime position to capitalize on the very hot video trend, particularly building online community around video. With our most recent platform, LYCOS Cinema (http://cinema.lycos.com), digital rights owners, artists and content managers can leverage our proprietary watch and chat technology for new promotions, distributions and focus group opportunities, releasing content to a VIP or general audience within our Angelfire community.”

LYCOS also looked at the millions of active bloggers and site builders on Angelfire to determine the most popular topics among this younger demographic over the past year. Based on the number of blog postings, combined with the number of web sites, LYCOS determined the most popular topic with its Angelfire members in 2006 is relationships. The topic of relationships is twice as popular as the next most popular topic, do-it-yourself, and nearly 10 times more popular than the topic of music. The top five most popular topics with Angelfire members in 2006 are: 1) Relationships 2) Do-it-Yourself, How-to tips 3) Addiction Recovery 4) Sexuality 5) Music For the month of September, comScore also reports LYCOS is the 12th most popular Internet destination worldwide with 91.1 million monthly unique visitors.

Lycos, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Daum Communications Corp., an Internet portal and e-commerce destination in Korea with a growing presence throughout the Asian markets. Lycos, Inc. creates and operates search, community and technology lifestyle sites including Lycos.com, Hotbot.com, Wired.com, Tripod.com and Angelfire.com. Other Lycos products and sites include Lycos Mail, Lycos Games, Lycos Planet, Lycos Phone and GetRelevant. Lycos was acquired by Korean Daum Communications Corp. in October 2004 and has its U.S. headquarters in Waltham, Massachusetts. Daum Communications Corp. is traded on the KOSDAQ: 035720.

For more information about Lycos, please visit: www.lycos.com.

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