Momentous.ca Puts NorthPole.net up for eBay Auction

Site received close to 1 million visits last year alone!

For Immediate Release

Ottawa, Canada / Feb 20, 2002 – Thinking about Christmas already? A Canadian company, Momentous.ca has put www.NorthPole.net up for auction on eBay.com.

Even without promotion, www.NorthPole.net attracts hundreds of thousands of visits each year. Bidding will open at $50,000 U.S.

“NorthPole.net is a great fit for a major corporation that wants to communicate with children. We are selling it because we’ve been overwhelmed with its popularity. With close to a million visits last year, we just can’t keep up with the site and support it in the way that children deserve,” said Rob Hall, President and CEO of Momentous.ca.

NorthPole.net features greetings from Santa, Mrs. Claus, and Rudolph, activities such as downloadable Christmas pictures to print out and colour, a North Pole Weather Report, a list of frequently asked questions (e.g. How does Santa know if I’ve been naughty or nice?) and Christmas traditions from around the world.

Since 1994, Momentous.ca has operated the site on a volunteer basis, pouring in a great deal of time and resources to make the site one of premier Christmas sites around the world. During the run-up to Christmas 2001, the site received nearly 1 million visits with close to 3,000 unique sites pointing to it. For more information on visitors to NorthPole.net go to www.NorthPole.net/stats.

“It’s time for someone to take over the site and nurture it the way it should be nurtured. We’re looking for a good home for NorthPole.net, and we intend to make sure that it ends up in the right place,” concluded Hall.

Bidding on NorthPole.net will be kept open until April 30 at www.eBay.com. The specific link is http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2003168335.

www.Momentous.ca and its affiliated companies have long been at the forefront of Internet development. The companies offer industry-leading full customer service and a full suite of domain registration services. ICANN-accredited www.Namescout.com is ranked by the authoritative State of the Domain report as one of the world’s fastest-growing registrars, and is among the world’s Top 50 registrars. Namescout.com was recently accredited as the world’s first dot-name registrar, and is provisionally accredited by the Australian Domain Authority (auDA) in the first wave of new dot-au registrars. Namecout.com will also offer dot-US domain names in the upcoming deregulation of America’s Internet Address. Sister company www.Internic.ca was Canada’s first dot-ca accredited registrar and is now Canada’s leading dot-ca registrar. Based in Ottawa, the companies serve customers around the globe from offices in North America and the Caribbean. They are the world’s only registrar group simultaneously accredited by ICANN, CIRA, auDA and the Global Name Registry.

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For more information or to arrange a media interview, please call Lisa McAdam at (613) 715-3544 or lisa@momentous.ca.