1&1 & Fotolia form strategic partnership

2 May 2006, London: 1&1 Internet Ltd, Europe's largest web hosting and domain name registration company, today announced a strategic partnership with Fotolia LLC, the first public, worldwide marketplace for royalty-free stock images, which will allow special discounts for 1&1 customers. Fotolia has one of the world's largest and fastest growing databases of inexpensive, royalty-free images and illustrations with over 620,000 images.

"With Fotolia, we have gained a partner that will revolutionize the legal stock photography industry with their innovative business model,” says Andreas Gauger, CEO 1&1 Internet. “The customer pays only for the resolution that they really need from a digital picture and may use the picture as often and as long as they would like. We are offering our hosting customers easy access and financial advantages to legal and inexpensive images for their websites.”

Oleg Tscheltzoff, President of Fotolia, adds: “1&1 Internet has a lot of users who are always in need of images for illustrating websites, blogs, newsletters, presentations, print catalogues, or advertising and we will try to help them save up to 90% of their current budget for images.”

Fotolia offers only royalty-free images and photos. Once that image is purchased, it can be used as long and as often as necessary for Web site illustrating, digital advertising, blog, print campaigns, package designs, or printing on T-shirts and mugs. All this is possible with the Standard royalty-free licence with prices starting as low as £1.00 per picture (output resolution from 2 MP to over 20 MP).

Also, as a special bonus up to 10 free pictures are available daily for registered users. The entire system also functions the other way around: great photographers or graphic designers can instantly sell their photos, graphics or illustrations through Fotolia and reach millions of customers worldwide, while always keeping the copyrights of their work.

For 1&1 customers, Fotolia images are easily acquirable through the 1&1 Control Panel — one click on the Fotolia button is all it takes to find the Fotolia shop. After registering, the system will automatically add a discount of 25% to each picture for 1&1 customers. Payment is done by a credit system, which can be loaded with a credit card or through PayPal. There is a 10 credit minimum purchase (each credit is £1.00) and the credits have no expiration date.

About 1&1 Internet Ltd

1&1 Internet Ltd based in Slough, west of London, is Europe's No.1 web hosting and domain name registration company. 1&1 Internet Ltd is the UK arm of 1&1 Internet AG based in Germany (a subsidiary of United Internet Group, a public company of some 6,000 employees).

1&1 was established in 1992 and holds 5 million British, German, French, Austrian and US customer contracts and serves over 5 million domain names at its 30,000 server strong European Data Centres. 1&1 prides itself on being the one-stop-shop for web solutions.

1&1 Internet Ltd entered the UK domain registration and web hosting market in June 2000. As a well funded profitable company, it is in a strong position to deliver a high quality service at low cost. 1&1 is an accredited Registrar with ICANN (.com), Nominet (.co.uk), Afilias (.info) and NeuLevel (.biz). 1&1 are also Microsoft Joint Development Partners being the first to launch Microsoft .NET Server 2003 hosting in Europe. For more information on 1&1 Internet Ltd visit the website at www.1and1.co.uk

About Fotolia

Fotolia is an inclusive, global community in which photographers and designers come together to form a marketplace free from traditional royalties and rights management. The web site allows photographers and designers of all levels to share and monetize their passion or profession while allowing graphic artists, web designers, arts directors, marketing professionals, and consumers to obtain high quality, legal digital stock images for as low as $1.

Launched in early November 2005, Fotolia’s digital image marketplace has acquired over 620,000 images in its database and more than 60,000 international members. For more information about the company or to access the Fotolia, visit http://www.fotolia.co.uk

Media Contact 1&1

Richard Stevenson
1&1 Internet Ltd
Tel. 01753 490 435
Fax. 01753 490 442

Media Contact Fotolia

Fotolia LLC
Chad Bridwell
41 East 11th Street, 11th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Telephone: 206-683 49 42
chad@fotolia.com or press@fotolia.com

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Posted by Thibaud on 10:48, May 2 2006

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