OREM, UT - North Sky, Inc., launches its millionth Web site this month, joining the elite ranks of a handful of other large Web hosting companies that have achieved this milestone. In 21 months the company and its booming Internet property, FreeServers.com, has gone from a back room at a former Provo dance club to being purchased by About.com (NASDAQ: BOUT), the 10th largest Web property on the Internet.

"We have been driving this thing at light speed since we came out of the gate." said North Sky CEO Hal Halladay. "Reaching one million sites is a significant milestone for North Sky and our site-hosting community." Halladay attributes FreeServers.com's meteoric growth to the grass roots popularity of the Company's Web building tools and the unique ability for site owners to incorporate their name or special interest into the site address (i.e. halladay.freeservers.com). Halladay also said the achievement is great for Utah; "This is the place where it all started." With Utah in-mind, North Sky developed and launched an honorary millionth site: www.thisistheplace.freeservers.com. The site is a tribute to Utah.

FreeServers.com is owned by North Sky, Inc., a company that officially started its business in 1998 in a back room at the Star Palace, a former dance club, in Provo, Utah. The company has since grown to 45 employees and moved to the former WordPerfect/Novell campus in Orem. Late last year, North Sky was purchased by About.com (NASDAQ: BOUT), for $40 million in an all-stock transaction. Media Metrix, a leader in Internet and Digital Media measurements, has ranked About.com as a leading news, information and entertainment Web property in the U.S. The addition of FreeServers.com's million Web sites and more than 5 million unique visitors per month moved About.com to the # 10 Web property in the world (Media Metrix, January 2000).

About North Sky, Inc North Sky, Inc. creates tools that power communities. Its Internet property, FreeServers.com, is dedicated to providing free Web space for all and the tools to build and manage a Web site. The company offers tools and technology that enable Web portals, businesses and associations to build more effective online communities. These tools include Web sites, instant messaging and Web-based e-mail. North Sky markets its privately labeled or co-branded solutions to businesses or organizations that want to offer these tools in order to enhance their Web presence and traffic. North Sky is headquartered in Orem, Utah with offices in Irvine, California.

About About.com Launched in April of '97, New York City based About.com is the only address on the Web where visitors can find over 700 separate sites -- each one managed by a professional About.com guide -- who is responsible for writing original articles, mining the Web for the best resources, hosting live chats, leading discussions and creating regular newsletters. With over 50,000 topics covered and a million links, About.com has become one of the Internet's most popular Web properties for news, information and entertainment. To date the About.com network has 25,000 affiliates and has acquired several companies such as ExpertCentral.com that compliment the About.com mission of matching interests with individuals. For more information on the company visit www.about.com. . This news release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties regarding About.com. Investors are cautioned that such results or events predicted in these statements may differ materially from actual future events or results. Factors that could cause actual events or results to differ from anticipated events or results include the company's limited operating history, history of losses and anticipation of continued losses, potential volatility of quarterly operating results, and other risks that are contained in About.com's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.