Dotster Partners with Akmin to Offer Custom-Designed Websites

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Oct. 10, 2005 -- Dotster, Inc., one of the world's largest ICANN-accredited domain registration and hosting companies, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Akmin to provide SiteGalore-powered professional website design and maintenance services for customers.

The Dotster We-Build service launching today provides professional design services for websites up to 10-pages in length. Customers can choose to maintain their own sites with an easy-to-use site management tool or purchase an affordable monthly maintenance package for $19 (US) with up to three hours of professional design time every month.

Each package includes the one-time We-Build service plus website hosting at Dotster's most competitive price, $5.95 (US) per month. The five-page site building service is $365 (US) and the ten-page site building service is $650 (US). Package details are available online at http://www.dotster.com/webhosting/webhosting_pkg_webuild.php

"The We-Build service eliminates any need for even the slightest bit of technical knowledge," said Erin O'Connell, Dotster's senior marketing manager for premium managed services. "Customers can easily upload content from text files or Microsoft Word documents, and the professional web designers take the ball from there. Even businesses without any coding or design capabilities can have an effective, professional website live on the Internet in days."

The We-Build service is based on the ISO 9001-2000 certified website building process developed by Akmin's SiteGalore. The service maintains an affordable price point by starting with page templates, but with hundreds of customization options and professional designers integrating custom elements, each finished site looks absolutely unique when complete.

Prashanth, CEO of Akmin Technologies, says, "Given the tight budgets of small businesses, a 'productized service' like We-Build is ideal because it marries the expertise of professional web designers with the price advantage of a do-it-yourself website builder like SiteGalore."

About Dotster

With nearly three million Internet domains, Dotster is one of the largest ICANN-accredited domain name registration and hosting companies in the world. Launched in 2000, Dotster was among the first to offer long-term domain registrations and discounted pricing. Customers now turn to Dotster for its ability to deliver marketable domain names, premium managed services, and reliable hosting services. http://www.dotster.com

About Akmin's SiteGalore

With over 1000 service providers, Akmin's SiteGalore is the most preferred browser-based web site building tool that enables webhosts, domain registrars, ISPs and other service providers to offer a profitable, privately branded, do-it-yourself web site building service to their customers. SiteGalore, which recently proved itself unbreakable after achieving a whopping 2,795,904 successful transactions per day without a single failed transaction as part of a rigorous three-tier scrutiny by the National Software Testing Labs (www.nstl.com), is designed to offer a significant cost advantage to service providers at a considerably low cost of ownership. This is made possible by its efficient use of hardware resources and strategic use of open source software. www.sitegalore.com