As part of the NTT family of companies, and a leading provider of global IP solutions, Verio is consistently recognized for its innovation in products and services as well as its delivery of those services to customers. The following industry awards and recognition are evidence of Verio's dedication to providing viable business solutions that help customers grow their businesses.

The TMC Labs 2004 Innovation Award
Verio's PowerPlatform Hosting framework was awarded the 2004 Innovation Award from TMC Labs, an industry award honoring products and solutions that demonstrate innovation, unique features and significant contributions toward improving technology. TMC judges recognized PowerPlatform for its modular nature, making it suitable for both mid-market and higher-end customers, as well as for some more basic dedicated hosting customer needs. Additionally, TMC Labs noted the solution's wrap-around service level agreements; tiered support and enhanced services, such as monitoring and reporting, managed security and storage solutions; and Verio's PowerPortal, for customer insight into a solution's health. Verio considers hosting a vital cornerstone of its business and will continue to produce innovations that provide customers the most flexible and rock solid solutions available.
Link to website: www.tmcnet.com/cis/

NTT Communications Awarded World Communication Award for Best Global Carrier and Best New Service
NTT Communications (NTT Com) was honored with the World Communications Award (WCA) for Best Global Carrier for its global reach to 144 countries, its high-capacity, Tier One IP backbone, high rates of customer satisfaction and financial stability. NTT Com also won the WCA for Best New Service, for its provision of IPv6/IPv4 Dual Service. WCA judges noted that the service is "potentially important for the entire telecom industry," and that "NTT Com is ahead of the game."
Link to website: http://wca.totaltele.com

VARBusiness 500
The VARBusiness 500 is an industry listing that ranks the top VARs, systems integrators and IT consultants by their annual sales. Verio has consistently moved up in the listing over the past few years, ranking No. 113 in the 2004 VAR 500. Verio provides customers many of the high growth technologies increasing in importance to the VAR 500, including security solutions and storage network infrastructure.
Link to website: www.varbusiness.com

NTT Named to Fortune Global 500
Fortune magazine named NTT No. 4 on its Telecommunications 2004 Global Most Admired Companies list, based on a survey of telecommunications industry directors, executives and analysts who rated companies on nine criteria, including innovation, quality of products/services and long-term investment value. NTT also ranked No. 16 on the 2004 Fortune Global 500, and No. 1 on the 2004 Fortune Global 500 Telecommunications Industry list, both of which list corporations with the largest revenue from the past year.
Link to Website: www.fortune.com

NTT Named to Forbes 2000
NTT ranked No. 30 on the Forbes 2000: World's Leading Companies list, based on composite scores for sales, profits, assets and market value. NTT was also included in the top 20 of Forbes' list for companies with the highest sales.
Link to Website: www.forbes.com

2004 WEBAWARD
Verio was awarded two WebAwards by the Web Marketing Association for outstanding achievement in Web site development. The sites recognized serve Verio and NTT Communications global customers, ensuring delivery of the most effective online communications, technical support and education tools. Verio Global IP Solutions site (www.verio.com) was named Best Internet Service Provider Website, and the NTT Communications Global IP Network (www.ntt.net) received the Standard of Excellence recognition. Judges recognized the site for a "nice clean design" and "effective" product-based navigation, as well as the interactive global IP map.
Link to Website: www.webaward.org

viaVerio Partner Program Named 5-Star Award Winner by VARBusiness
VARBusiness Magazine awarded a five-star rating, the publication's highest honor, to the successful viaVerio® Partner Program serving partners in both the small to medium enterprise hosting market, as well as larger channel partners in both managed enterprise hosting and network services. This prestigious industry recognition reflects the breadth and depth of the viaVerio channel program offerings and benefits to partners, and demonstrates Verio's continued commitment and dedication to its channel partners.
Link to Website: www.varbusiness.com/sections/apps/2004ppg_display.asp?co=267

Communications Solutions Product of the Year Award
Technology Marketing Corporation (TMC®)'s Communications Solutions® magazine, named the Verio IPv6 Gateway Services "Product of the Year" award winner for 2003. The award recognizes the industry's best offerings, and demonstrates Verio's continued innovation and commitment to deliver meaningful technology advancements for corporations and institutions. The award reiterates Verio's leadership position in the global solutions market. Verio will continue to help customers prepare their businesses for the next generation Internet that promises to enable technologies such as secure end-to-end communications, and to accommodate the imminent proliferation of mobile devices with Internet addresses.
Link to Website: www.tmcnet.com/comsol/03poty/verio.htm

Customer Service Team of the Year National Sales & Marketing Award
Verio was honored with the Customer Service Team of the Year award, a national customer service award from Sales & Marketing Management magazine, recognizing Verio for it's commitment to delivering exemplary customer service, as well as for demonstrating innovation in training. During a specified 12-month period, Verio designed and implemented an exemplary customer service strategy, showing improvements over specified goals in the areas of average speed of answer, mean time to resolve, call handle time, quality assurance monitoring and turnover reduction, resulting in higher customer satisfaction levels and faster, more accurate service and resolution for customers. Verio has made customer care a priority in its business and works consistently to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction through increased responsiveness and attentiveness to customers.
Link to Website: www.salesandmarketing.com/smm/index.jsp

NTT Communications Named "Best in Class" by Telemark
A recent data services user survey by Telemark named NTT Communications Best in Class in the Indispensable to Customers category, which measures customer satisfaction in network reliability, reporting and secure data transfer. NTT Communications scored an "excellent" in the category. The company also received four Telemark Gold Awards for exceptional levels of customer satisfaction in network reliability, secure data transfer and billing accuracy. The survey results reflect NTT Communications' dedication to focusing on customer needs and helping customers grow their businesses.
Link to Website: www.telemark.uk.com

HostIndex
HostIndex.com looks at a range of Web hosting companies each month and ranks the best hosting companies, based on user feedback, features and pricing, financial stability and customer support. The companies making the list represent the top one percent of hosting companies worldwide. Verio conistently ranks on the list, assuring Verio customers they are receiving the best business solutions the industry has to offer.
Link to Website: www.hostindex.com

Web Host Directory Review
Web Host Directory Review presents monthly awards to the best Web hosts in each of several Web host categories. The winners are chosen by tabulating the votes received from site visitors, as well as from the site's Review Board, which looks at the top rated hosts in each category. Verio is consistently named to the list.
Link to Website: www.webhostdir.com

TheWorldJournal.com
TheWorldJournal.com screens hundreds of candidates for The Editor's Top Ten Web Hosting Companies list, which features those hosters that deliver customers the best possible service. Editors take into account performance, reliability, hosting solutions (features and speed), pricing and support. Inclusion in this list validates Verio as one of the most trusted and reliable companies serving web hosting customer on the market.
Link to Website: www.theworldjournal.com/special/nettech/tophosts.htm

The Net Top 20; Business Web Hosting Awards
The Web Hosting Awards from Nettop20.com rank the best Web hosts by category. Each category represents the major segments of the Web hosting market. Verio was ranked No. 1 in the Popular Web Hosting category, and called "the leader in the field." Verio was ranked No. 2 in the Business Web Hosting category, and described as "a leader in the field of business Web hosting. This means stability and predictability for those who house their Web sites there."
Link to Website: http://popular-web-hosting.nettop20.com