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WebAssured.com Announces Relationship With eccelerate.com

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 25, 2000--WebAssured.com, the Internet's premiere online consumer advocacy group, today announced that the company has formed a relationship with eccelerate.com, a company of the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation (NYSE: DNB), to increase the assurance level of its online business rating system.

WebAssured.com is a global independent Web site certification and free online dispute resolution service company. With ShopAssured(TM), its eagerly awaited downloadable free browser plug-in, the company provides online shoppers with immediate independent information reporting on the authenticity and integrity of Web sites.

eccelerate.com is a provider of technology and information that empowers eMarketplaces to conduct highly trusted and smart online transactions. The company enhances trust in business identity, and enables the real-time exchange of global business information.

Backed by the Dun & Bradstreet global database of more than 58 million businesses worldwide, and eccelerate.com's information exchange technology and verification services, the relationship gives WebAssured.com the added benefit of further enhancing its "dot.confidence ratings" system. Additionally, by extending the decision-making criteria through eccelerate.com, it allows online businesses engaged in e-commerce to make improved, informed and credible assessments of other companies active in the eMarketplace.

"We are pleased to announce our relationship with eccelerate.com," said Travis Morgan, President and CFO of WebAssured.com. "As the leading provider of technology and information for conducting secure and smart e-commerce transactions, eccelerate.com is the ideal partner to aid us in building on the foundation behind our dot.confidence ratings' system."

"WebAssured.com is dramatically changing the way buyers make decisions about their e-commerce transactions," said Andre Dahan, President of eccelerate.com and Dun & Bradstreet - North America. "With this partnership, WebAssured.com members will be able to conduct online business with an added level of trust in bringing buyers and sellers together."

About eccelerate.com

eccelerate.com, a company of the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, is a premier provider of technology and information that empowers eMarketplaces to conduct highly trusted and smart B2B e-commerce transactions. Headquartered in New York City's Silicon Alley, eccelerate.com delivers enhanced trust in online B2B commerce transactions by authenticating and validating business and employee identity. In addition, by leveraging the D&B global database of information on more than 58 million companies, eccelerate.com enables real-time exchange of reliable business information between trading partners and accelerates smart trading decisions at the time of e-commerce transactions. For additional information, please visit the eccelerate.com Web site at http://www.eccelerate.com.

About WebAssured.com - Building Dot.Confidence

Based in Carmel, Indiana, WebAssured.com is the first entity to offer an independent web-site certification program and free on-line dispute resolution service. Webassured.com has been successfully increasing confidence in dot com purchasing and helping e-commerce grow and thrive since 1995. The net's premiere consumer watchdog, Webassured.com insures online purchases and offers money back guarantees for purchases made at participating. The company invites consumers who have had problems with any on-line purchase to fill out a free on-line complaint form at www.webassured.com. To date, WebAssured.com has successfully resolved over 95% of complaints filed against member Web sites, and 76% of complaints against non-members. WebAssured.com is dedicated to increasing consumer confidence in the Internet and to helping e-commerce grow and thrive through free-market forces, not government regulation. A complete description of the consumer protection tools offered by WebAssured.com, including the On-line Purchase Protection(SM) program underwritten at Lloyd's, can be found at http://www.webassured.com.