(EMAILWIRE.COM, January 29, 2001 ) VANCOUVER, BC - NetNation Communications, Inc., (Nasdaq: NNCI), a global, top-ranked web site hosting company, domain name registrar (DNR) and application service provider (ASP), is pleased to announce a partnership with Sessions.edu, the first online school of design and new media, rated as the best online school in an independent studyconducted by students at The Open University in the UK. Through this partnership, NetNation will be the exclusive hosting provider for Sessions.edu and will offer its hosting services at a discount to all design and new media students, including employees from leading corporations such as The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS), FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), US Air Force, and The New England Institute of Technology. In return, Sessions.edu will offer its online courses and certificate programs at a discount to all NetNation's web hosting clients. "Our partnership with NetNation is ideal because it enables Sessions.edu not only to extend the reach of our online Web and Multimedia courses to those who can most benefit, but also because it provides Sessions.edu students with high quality web hosting and services for their coursework and other initiatives," said Jessica Luterman, Director of Business Development, Sessions.edu."With the growing need for visual literacy, we expect to increase ourcustomer base through offering hosting services to new media and designstudents," said Joseph Kibur, CEO, NetNation. "The value-added e-learning services from Sessions.edu will be well received among our entrepreneur and small business community."NetNation will share in all revenue streams from the sale of online courses and currently features these e-learning services on the 'customer resources' section of the company web site (http://www.netnation.com). Sessions.edu will be marketing NetNation services through email campaigns and currently features the web hosting offerings under the 'resources' and 'starting a business' sections of their web site (www.sessions.edu). Future plans are to bundle web hosting packages with design and new media course offerings. About NetNation Communications, Inc. NetNation Communications, Inc. (http://www.netnation.com) is a global web site hosting company, domain name registrar (DNR) and applicationservice/infrastructure provider (ASP/AIP) with clients in more than 130countries. DomainPeople, Inc. (http://www.domainpeople.com), NetNation's wholly owned subsidiary, is an ICANN accredited registrar of Internet domain names, and member of Afilias LLC, an international consortium of registrars that includes Network Solutions, Inc., a VeriSign company (Nasdaq: VRSN) and Register.com (Nasdaq: RCOM), selected to operate the registry for dot-info domains. NetNation has strategic alliances with Cobalt Networks Inc. (Nasdaq: COBT) which was purchased by Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW), GT Group Telecom (Nasdaq: GTTLB, TSE: GTGB.TO), and MasterCard International. Since inception in 1997, NetNation (Nasdaq: NNCI) has been consistently ranked among the top 10 web hosting companies in the world by leading independent evaluators. About Sessions.eduSessions.edu, incorporated in 1997, is the first online school for design and new media, offering professional training for participation in the new economy. Its e-learning platform delivers instructor-led, on-demand training in graphic design, web development, multimedia, digital design and e-business strategies. The proven Sessions.edu e-learning model synthesizes automation, quality and scalability. To date, the school has trained over 2,000 students from 80 countries in more than 6,000 courses, from leading corporations such as The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS), FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), and The New England Institute of Technology. "Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: In this news release, the word "will", "expect", "future plans" and similar conditional or future-oriented expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements are inherently subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward-looking statements.Contacts:NetNation Communications, Inc. John Gomez Investor Relations Tel. 888 277 0000 Ext. 133 mailto:gomez@netnation.com Phebe Chan Media Relations Tel. 888 277 0000 Ext. 216 mailto:phebec@netnation.com Sessions.eduJessica Luterman Director of Business Development 476 Broome Street, 4th Floor New York, NY 10013 (212) 966-2270 Ext. 12mailto:jessica@sessions.edu###

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