1&1, Fotolia Form Strategic Partnership

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., May 2, 2006. 1&1 Internet, Inc. 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 for 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, Chairman, 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 catalogs, 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 Inc.

1&1 Internet Inc. is a subsidiary of United Internet, a profitable public company with 5,540 employees and a market cap of $3 billion. 1&1 was established in 1992 and has registered more than 5 million domain names, while 32,000 servers run on the company's four state-of-the-art data centers. 1&1's global community is over 5 million customer contracts strong.

The company's U.S. headquarters is located in Chesterbrook, PA. For more information, please contact the company at www.1and1.com or 1-877-461-2631.

1&1 Internet Inc. is a subsidiary of United Internet. All other logos, company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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.com.

Media Contact 1&1

1&1 Internet Inc
Neil Simpkins
701 Lee Road U.S. PR Manager
Suite 300 1&1 Internet Inc.
Chesterbrook, PA 19087
Telephone: 610-560-1538
press@1and1.com

Fotolia Press Contact
Julie Wohlberg
julie@fotolia.com
610-866-2314

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Posted by Thibaud on 05:40, May 2 2006

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