Montabaur, November 7, 2005. The first nine months of 2005 have been a successful period for with significant improvements in both sales and earnings.

Compared with the same period last year, raised sales in the first nine months of 2005 by over 88 percent to EUR 62.2 million (prior year: EUR 33.0 million). Earnings also improved strongly. EBITDA grew from EUR -0.6 million to EUR 2.7 million and EBT from EUR -4.1 million (including goodwill amortization of EUR 3.0 million according to IFRS) to EUR 2.1 million.  Earnings per share (EPS) after minority interests and tax charges amount to EUR -0,03 EUR (prior year: -0,17 EUR).

“The profitable growth trend is continuing and we are very satisfied with the development of business,” says Guy Challen, CFO of . “In particular, the success of our new acquisitions affilinet and Sedo is having a strong positive impact on sales and earnings.”

“The marked upturn in business throughout all segments following the summer break greatly benefited our third quarter results. At the same time,  the improvements in our platforms and services for affiliate marketing and domain marketing have brought together our advertisers and website or domain owners more effectively and resulted in greater sales and earnings for our company,” explains Stephane Cordier, Executive Board member of .

“We will continue to expand our marketing products and our service for high-quality websites in future, in order to make them more attractive for our advertising clients and thus strengthen our position as Europe’s leading supplier of digital communication solutions,” explains Cordier.

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AdLINK markets online advertising space and digital marketing concepts. With 15 offices in 10 European countries and the USA, AdLINK is one of the leading independent European suppliers in the online marketing segment. Cooperation agreements in Latin America, Asia and the USA enable AdLINK’s customers to benefit from the strength of a global advertising network. AdLINK products include communication solutions for brand building and brand management, performance-based direct marketing and e-mail marketing. With the acquisition of Sedo GmbH and affilinet GmbH, AdLINK is also active in the growing segments of domain marketing and affiliate marketing. With over 3 billion page impressions per month, affilinet has the highest reach of all online sales channels based on affiliate programs in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Sedo is the European market leader for domain marketing and the global market leader in secondary domain trading with some 2.2 million internet domains.

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