C I Host to fly above every open air NFL football game

HostReview.com
Tuesday, December 10, 2002; 12:00 AM

BEDFORD, TX (December 10, 2002) - Look, up in the sky! It's a bird, it's a plane - it's a C I Host advertising banner!

Focusing on its target market of men 25 to 54 years old, C I Host will fly colorful banners with the blue and orange C I Host logo and full color ads above all open-air stadiums during NFL games throughout the rest of the season.

For the Superbowl, C I Host will have a 1,500 square foot billboard flying overhead. Fans will see the regular season and Superbowl banners before, during and after the games. There is also the possibility that they will be broadcast on national TV.

“Since I am huge Dallas Cowboys fan and season ticket holder for 5 years now, I was at a game and an ad for a local restaurant flew over,” said Christopher Faulkner, CEO of C I Host. “Everyone around me looked up to read
it and I thought to myself we should get one of those. So we did, but in EVERY stadium across the country.”

The banners are 20 foot high by 75 foot long, and follow in a long tradition of C I Host’s unique and effective advertising campaigns.

C I Host put its logo on the boxing trunks of Evander Holyfield during one of his world championship fights, sponsored the return of Howard Stern to Dallas radio and has a contest going to send someone into space.

At its headquarters, C I Host has given area residents the opportunity to see the C I Host-sponsored NASCAR racing car and have their pictures taken with its driver and has put a 25 foot Santa Claus on the roof. C I Host offered its e-Business in a Box as a Valentine’s Day gift by including dozen red roses and recently had an aerial banner in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade.

“Christopher came to me with the idea for the NFL banners and I loved it,”
said Tamra Freedman, Director of Marketing and Advertising. “I made the calls and set everything up. We are already getting calls from people who saw one of the banners. Christopher never ceases to amaze me on what he comes up with!”

C I Host has continued to grow and prosper over the past two years despite a troubled economy that has hit the IT industry hard and sent several competitors packing.

Recently, the company broke new ground by opening its own retail store, C I Host’s Technology Store, in the Dallas Galleria, and forming a partnership with CompUSA to sell its products through a Private Label agreement.

C I Host has facilities in Texas, Chicago, Los Angeles and Baltimore and will open a data center in London this month. More centers are planned for Germany, India and Japan.

About C I Host

C I Host (www.cihost.com), is a Web hosting and Internet solutions provider, domain name registrar (DNR) and application service provider (ASP) serving 175,000 individual consumers and businesses in 179 countries worldwide.

C I Host creates business-class hosting solutions for the small- and
medium-enterprise (SME) market, with the broadest portfolio of managed hosting and value-added services in the industry. C I Host is accredited by ICANN to register domain names.

C I Host has been consistently ranked among the Top 5 Web hosting companies out of 16,000 around the globe by c|net's Ultimate Web Host List, HostPulse, WebHostsOnline.com and HostChart.com. C I Host offers turn-key services ranging from initial domain name registration to custom dedicated servers
for e-commerce on today's Web. The company offers innovative packages and services to the Internet community.

C I Host operates three diverse data centers across the United States, with its main facility and Network Operations Center in Bedford, Texas. C I Host also has offices in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Chicago and London.

All telco-grade, tier-1 data centers are wholly owned and operated by C I Host and consist of redundant diesel generator backups and a temperature-controlled secure environment with fully redundant UPS capability. All server hardware is fully tested and configured for optimal performance. Daily Web server backups and full fire protection guard against any data loss. To deliver speed and reliability, C I Host's servers are connected to two OC-12 fiber connections, five DS-3 and two OC-3 lines from five diverse Internet backbones for a total of more than 2,000 Megabits of
available bandwidth.

Contact: Nancy St. Pierre C I Host (888) 868-9931 x 9426 nancys@cihost.com