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Worcester, Massachusetts - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - May 19, 2006 - Celebrity web hosting and services provider, Paid, Inc., has received verbal notification from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) that its pending patent application covering its online auction shipping calculator technology has been allowed by the USPTO.

Paid expects to receive a formal written Notice of Allowance from the USPTO shortly. Generally, the USPTO will issue a patent approximately 90 days after the issuance of the formal written Notice of Allowance and the receipt of an issue fee from the applicant.

Greg Rotman, CEO of Paid, Inc. commented, ”This has been a long process, which included extensive searches for potentially similar patents and other prior art by the USPTO. The USPTO’s diligence will make our resulting patent all the stronger and better able to prevail if challenged. We are very pleased with the overall result and want to thank Tom Anderson and all his associates with our legal counsel, Hunton and Williams, for their excellent counsel and untiring effort in pursuing the allowance. We believe that the patent will enable us to pursue licensing agreements with numerous companies.”

Paid’s shipping calculator technology is already in use through the company’s aiShip software used by hundreds of companies, as well as within numerous ecommerce sites hosted and/or managed by Paid, Inc.

Paid’s patent will cover many of the features of the aiShip software, including the real-time calculation of shipping charges for multiple carriers, such as the U.S. Post Office, FedEx and UPS, based upon a location indication, such as a zip code, and other characteristics of the item being shipped, such as weight, special packaging, and insurance costs.

In addition, the aiShip software enables the calculation of shipping and handling charges for shipping multiple orders from a vendor to the same buyer, as well as calculating handling charges from the vendor, shipping insurance costs and sales tax. Unlike many online e-commerce sites that calculate shipping during checkout, aiShip’s calculation occurs immediately when the item is placed in the cart and it updates as items are added or removed from the online shopping cart.

Paid, Inc.’s celebrity services provides famous people with official web sites and fan club services that include e-commerce storefronts, ticketing and fan experience packages, and web site content. The Company also sponsors autograph signing events and other sports marketing services for sports clientele. Using proprietary patent-pending technology, Paid’s patent-pending AuctionInc brand shipping calculation and auction management software and services are utilized to streamline online auctions, ecommerce and web site development and hosting.

To learn more about the aiShip software, please visit: www.auctioninc.com.

For more information about Paid, please visit: www.paid.com.

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