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David L. Brown

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Brown serves as Chairman and CEO and has been a board member of Web.com since August 1999. He was named President of the Company in August 1999 and Chief Executive Officer in August 2000. Mr. Brown founded Atlantic Teleservices, a technology services company, in 1997 and from 1997 until its acquisition by Web.com in August 1999, served as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Brown has held numerous senior management positions including posts at Carlyle International, Riggs National Bank, Florida National Bank and Barnett Bank. Mr. Brown holds a B.A. in General Studies from Harvard.

Hugh M. Durden

Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust

Mr. Durden has been chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust since 2005. From 1997 through 2004, Mr. Durden served as the representative of the corporate trustee of the Trust. Prior to joining the Trust, Mr. Durden was an executive with the Wachovia Corporation, serving as president of Wachovia Corporate Services from 1994 to 2000. Mr. Durden is a director of the St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE), a real estate development company. He holds a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Freeman Graduate School of Business at Tulane University.

Member of the Audit Committee
Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Alex Kazerani

CEO, EdgeCast Networks Inc.

Mr. Kazerani is currently CEO of EdgeCast Networks Inc. Kazerani has founded and successfully led a number of business initiatives including KnowledgeBase.net and HostPro, Inc. and has extensive experience developing and designing technology solutions and operations for web hosting applications and data center build-outs. In addition to this position, Kazerani is an investor in several venture capital and angel funds and was a finalist at the 2005 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the year award. Kazerani earned a B.A. degree in International Relations and Economics from Tufts University.

Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Julius Genachowski

Independent Director

Julius Genachowski has vast experience in the Internet, e-Commerce, and media, and played a key role in building IAC/InterActiveCorp (Nasdaq: IACI) into one of the world's largest e-Commerce and media companies. From 1997 to 2005, Mr. Genachowski served in senior executive positions at IAC, including chief of business operations, general counsel, and a member of the Office of the Chairman. Before joining IAC, Mr. Genachowski was chief counsel to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to joining the FCC, he served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter and, before that, to retired Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. and to Chief Judge Abner J. Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He has served as an aide to U.S. Senator (the Representative) Charles E. Schumer and to the Iran-Contra Committee. Mr. Genachowski served on the Board of Directors of Expedia, Inc., Hotels.com, and Ticketmaster while each was a publicly traded company. He holds a B.A. from Columbia College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Chair of the Compensation Committee
Member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Timothy I. Maudlin

Managing General Partner, Medical Innovation Partners

Timothy Maudlin has served as a member of our Board of Directors since February 2002 and was appointed Lead Director in January 2007. Mr. Maudlin is also a director of Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a position held since September 2006, and is currently a member of its Audit Committee and its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Maudlin currently serves on the board of directors of three private companies. Mr. Maudlin served as a managing partner of Medical Innovation Partners, a venture capital firm, from 1989 until 2007. From 1999 to 2001, he served as a principal and as chief financial officer of Venturi Group, LLC, an incubator and venture capital firm. Beginning in 1984 until June 2006, Mr. Maudlin served on the board of directors of Curative Health Services, Inc. ("Curative"), a biopharmaceutical company, and from February 2005 until June 2006, Mr. Maudlin served as its chairman. In March 2006, Curative filed a voluntary petition for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 and in June 2006, it emerged from bankruptcy. He is a certified public accountant and holds a B.A. from St. Olaf College and a M.M. from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee

Robert S. McCoy Jr.

Director, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Director, MedCath Corporation

Mr. McCoy has been a director of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. since November 2003 and is currently the Chairman of its Audit Committee and a member of its Governance Committee. He has been a director of MedCath Corporation since October 2003 and is currently the Chairman of its Audit Committee and Governance and Nominating Committee and a member of its Compliance Committee. Mr. McCoy retired in September 2003 as Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Wachovia Corporation, a diversified financial services company, where he had been a senior executive officer since 1991.

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee

Jeffrey M. Stibel

President

Mr. Stibel currently serves as President and a member of the Board of Directors of Web.com and joined the company through the merger with Website Pros in September 2007. Prior to the merger, he was President and CEO of Web.com (formerly Interland) since August 2005. Mr. Stibel was part of the founding management team at United Online (NASDAQ: UNTD), a technology company that owns and operates leading web services, including NetZero, Juno, and Classmates.com. Prior to United Online, Mr. Stibel was founder, Chairman and CEO of Simpli.com, a search and marketing technology company currently owned by ValueClick (NASDAQ: VCLK). He serves on the board of directors for Web.com, Autobytel (NASDAQ: ABTL) and several private companies, including The Search Agency and EdgeCast. He also serves on the Board of Brown University's Entrepreneurship Program and Tufts University's Gordon Center for Leadership. Mr. Stibel has authored numerous academic and trade articles on a variety of subjects and is the named inventor on the US patent for search engine interfaces. He received a Master's degree from Brown University and studied Business and Brain Science at MIT's Sloan School of Management and at Brown University, where he was a Brain and Behavior Fellow.