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Cologne, Germany - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - November 21, 2006 - Domain name marketplace, Sedo, and UK web hosting provider and domain registrar, Fasthosts, have partnered to offer Fasthosts’ customers, the chance to purchase previously registered domain names via Sedo’s secondary marketplace.

Heightened competition caused by the shrinking number of available domain names, has seen leading registrars like Fasthosts and UKreg, looking to offer new value-added services that grow customer loyalty.

Stephen Holford, Director of Product Marketing at Fasthosts Ltd. remarked, ”The Sedo community of domain owners represents a very dynamic global market for Fasthosts. Fasthosts offers domain solutions for a variety of audiences from large and small domain name resellers to individual domain customers, but all of them can take advantage of Sedo’s comprehensive secondary marketplace services.”

Both Fasthosts and UKreg customers will benefit from the Sedo partnership – the first of this scale in the UK – by increased choice, added value and the opportunity to let their domains work for them.

Nora Cotter, Director of UK Operations for Sedo remarked, ”Many users are often unaware of domain acquisition options outside the traditional primary market. From our experience in linking the primary and secondary markets in the US, we have found that users are pleasantly surprised by the wide range of options the rapidly growing secondary market opens up to them. Fasthosts, in facilitating this pioneering link in the UK understands not only the value of the domain aftermarket, but the importance of providing the highest level of service and choice to customers. We are delighted to have this opportunity to work with Fasthosts and are looking forward to a healthy partnership.”

According to Fasthosts, it is the UK’s largest hosting company, delivering market-leading online services to the home, home office and SME markets. Along with its domain name specialists, UKreg, Fasthosts keeps over 1 million domains running smoothly and ensures over 6 million emails are delivered safely each day from their dedicated UK data centres. Fasthosts has a successful track record and proven business model in providing high value, award winning products. Innovation drives Fasthosts’ business, designing new ways of giving their customers control of the internet, since their inception in 1999. Fasthosts provides domain registrations, shared web hosting, business-class email, dedicated servers, internet merchant accounts plus unlimited broadband. Their highly successful reseller channel has recently been rated Number 1 for reseller hosting by industry portal Web Host Directory.

Sedo, (acronym for ”Search Engine for Domain Offers”), is an online marketplace for buying and selling domain names and websites. Sedo began in 2001, as a student project among three friends: Tim Schumacher, Ulrich Priesner, and Marius Würzner. The trio distributed computer games through the website offensiv.de. After the business was phased out, the students considered selling it, which laid the foundation for Sedo: ‘’search engine for domain offers.” Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., Sedo has assembled what it believes is the world’s largest database of domain names for sale, with more than four million listings. Buyers and sellers are brought together through a searchable online marketplace, and conduct negotiations anonymously using an offer-counteroffer system. To facilitate successful transactions, Sedo has introduced a range of related services, including domain name escrow/transfer services, domain name appraisals, a domain brokerage service and paid domain name parking. The success of Sedo’s model has attracted a global membership base of more than 200,000 domain professionals, and helped more than 5,000 businesses start its web presence off on the right foot with a great new domain name. Sedo offers regional versions of its site for the UK (Sedo.co.uk), France (Sedo.fr), Germany (Sedo.de), and Spain (eSedo.com).

To learn more about Sedo, please visit: www.sedo.com.

For more information about Fasthosts, please visit: www.fasthosts.co.uk/.

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