Cagliari/Utrecht, 26 July 2005

Today Tiscali has signed an agreement with UNIDT (Unified Identity Technology), an international top level domain administrator, giving all Tiscali subscribers access to a new generation of internet "Top Level Domains (TLD's)". Top Level Domain names are the letters or words following the dot in a website address. UNIDT allows companies to register domains such as .Tiscali or .KPMG without needing to enter the traditional internet domains (such as .com/.org/.net), or country codes (such as .nl/.be/.de) and without needing to type “www.”

As a result of this agreement, Tiscali will offer to its subscribers across Europe the access to the entire World Wide Web, including the new alternative domain names. The agreement underscores Tiscali’s commitment to embrace technological developments that simplify, improve and expand the opportunities offered by internet.

With public TLD’s (pTLD) anyone can register any desired term, such as “.wine”, “.tickets” or “.forsale”. Corporate TLD’s (cTLD) enable companies to make their web address synonymous with their name. For companies, the new Top Level Domain structure offers additional opportunities to profile themselves and to manage the traffic to their websites more effectively. The new TLD Structure means that an infinite amount of secondary domain names can be registered, such as “contact.unidt”, “helpdesk.unidt” or “subscribe.unidt”. Instead of going to the UNIDT homepage, UNIDT users and visitors can directly navigate towards the information they are looking for.

In Italy/Germany/UK the possibility to access this new domains will be active starting from September.

While, in the Netherlands Tiscali customers can already access to this new generation domains. Moreover, Tiscali Netherlands is one of the first companies to have registered a corporate TLD ( home.tiscali ). Other large companies are KPMG, TomTom and many more.

Source: www.tiscali.com