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Attention Business Editors:

Momentous.ca Company Becomes World's First .name Registrar

    OTTAWA, Oct. 5 /CNW/ - Namescout.com, a subsidiary of Ottawa based
Momentous.ca has been accredited by Global Name Registry of London UK as the
world's first .name registrar. .name is a new space on the Internet that gives
people the ability to create their own digital identity, the first Internet
domain reserved exclusively for individuals.
    "When you buy your .name you're buying an Internet address as individual
as you," says Andrew Tsai, President of Global Name Registry. "You'll be able
to create your own web address and use your .name as an address through which
you can have all your email forwarded. Your .name can soon become a single
contact point and storage place for personal information that you can access
anywhere, anytime."
    "Momentous.ca is honoured to be recognized as a global Internet leader,"
said Rob Hall, President and CEO of Momentous.ca and of its subsidiaries
Namescout.com and Internic.ca. "By offering customers leading-edge service and
technology, we have built Internic.ca into Canada's leading Internet
registrar. Through Namescout.com, we are delighted to now be able to offer
clients the advantage of dealing with the world's first .name registrar."
    The .name wave is about to start, with .name registrations due to
commence being processed globally on November 22, 2001. Those wishing to pre-
register their .name can do so at www.namescout.com. Pre-registrations will be
processed November 12-22, 2001.
    Global Name Registry, based in London UK, is authorized by ICANN (the
Internet Corporation for assigned Names and Numbers) as the global authority
to administer .name, and is the world's only top-level domain Registry for
Personal domains. For more information on Global Name Registry, visit
www.nic.name/ and for more information on ICANN, visit www.icann.org.
    Namescout.com, with offices in Barbados and Australia, is part of the
Ottawa-based Momentous.ca family of on-line businesses owned and operated by
Rob Hall, one of Canada's leading Internet pioneers. Sister company
Internic.ca is Canada's leading Internet registrar and has been offering
domain name registration services to Canadians since 1998.




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For further information: To arrange a media interview please contact 
Lisa McAdam at (613) 715-3544 or at lisa@momentous.ca, or visit 
www.namescout.com, www.internic.ca or www.momentous.ca