AUSTIN, Texas — January 19, 2006 — The Mozilla Foundation and Giganews, the world's largest Newsgroup Service Provider, announced this week that Giganews will sponsor access to the Mozilla Foundation's Usenet newsgroups hierarchy. The Mozilla Foundation is responsible for the Mozilla open source project and the popular Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird email client. Giganews will provide all server infrastructure and systems support through their global Tier 1 Usenet clusters, offering excellent reliability and redundancy to the Mozilla project's developers, while saving the Foundation the trouble and expense of running their own in-house operation.

"The Mozilla Foundation was created to support the development of the best quality software and services to people looking for innovation and choice on the Internet. We know that the Mozilla community has high expectations of us, and we felt that choosing Giganews to host our Usenet capabilities would allow us to continue to adhere to our high standards and offer an excellent service to our developers and other members of our community," detailed Frank Hecker, Director of Policy at the Mozilla Foundation, when asked about the partnership with Giganews.

Known for their reliability and performance, Giganews is able to provide Mozilla developers with a solid Usenet Newsgroup hosting service that has global distribution points and multiple levels of redundancy.

Jonah Yokubaitis, CEO of Giganews, says, "The Giganews and Mozilla partnership is a natural fit and we're glad to offer this free service to their valued developer network. Mozilla's reputation for developing some of the Internet's leading browser and email applications has attracted the same type of customers who demand the high quality Usenet service that Giganews provides."

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