NameMedia Launches Gardens.com

Joins DavesGarden.com a ‘Best of the Web’ Winner in NameMedia’s Gardening Network

Waltham, Mass, October 11, 2007; NameMedia (http://www.namemedia.com), a leader in developing premium online communities, announced today that it has launched Gardens.com (http://gardens.com), a new website giving gardeners a chance to share experiences and expertise with an online community enabled by innovative technology and localized gardening content.

Combining mapping technology, customer reviews, and a library of original content, Gardens.com lets gardeners find (and critique) gardening-related businesses and services anywhere in the world, in addition to providing a forum to ask and answer questions on everything from identifying a plant to overcoming a gardening problem. Gardens.com provides listings for florists, garden centers and landscape services, as well as public gardens, parks and arboreta. Seasonal destinations, such as farmers markets and produce stands, corn mazes, pumpkin patches and Christmas tree farms are also included.

Part of the NameMedia network of gardening sites, Gardens.com joins the company’s DavesGarden.com site which recently was awarded “Best of the Web” by Forbes magazine and boasts over 3000 new posts a day and over one million visitors monthly.
“The launch of Gardens.com is a perfect complement to the other great sites in the NameMedia garden network,” said Dave Whitinger, the founder of DavesGarden.com. “Gardens.com offers gardeners a way to find local gardening resources, read up on articles of interest, and tap into active discussions… The gardening community is responding enthusiastically to this new resource and has already added nearly 15,000 local favorite places to shop and visit, with more new sources added every day by business owners and customers.”

Gardens.com also allows users easy access to the award-winning Garden Watchdog which lets gardeners discover mail order alternatives when visiting a retail location isn’t possible. “With the launch of Gardens.com we continue to advance our strategy of taking the premium domain names that we own and developing rich destinations with content and community,” said Jeff Bennett, NameMedia President and COO. “We offer substantial value to our website visitors and give marketers an opportunity to reach users who are passionate about all things gardening.”

About NameMedia:

NameMedia is a leader in the acquisition, development and trading of digital real estate through a network of highly targeted websites and a marketplace for premium domain names. The company¹s website development focuses on creating compelling online communities in niche categories. The company¹s marketplace allows owners of premium domain names to list their domain properties for sale, and for domain buyers to review the largest available inventory.

Through its ownership of one of the largest domain portfolios in the world, its innovative website development platform, and its broad distribution, NameMedia now serves more than 60 million visitors to its network of websites and sells domains to customers in more than 100 countries.

Headquartered outside Boston in Waltham, Massachusetts, more information is available at www.namemedia.com