Company Seeks Alliances Within the E-Commerce and Credit Card Processing Industry

Boston, MA, November 30, 2005-- MaxMind, an industry-leading provider of geolocation and online fraud detection tools, has launched the Strategic Partnership Program for its minFraud service. Through the program, MaxMind will collaborate with other e-commerce and credit card processing businesses to deliver effective tools for detecting online fraud.

Strategic partners and their clients will enjoy a variety of benefits when a partner incorporates MaxMind's minFraud service into their products and services.

Following are the key benefits to the program:

• Partners earn up to 50% of revenue generated from referred clients for two years.
• Partners' clients receive up to 1000 Basic minFraud queries every month and 20% discount for other minFraud services.
• MaxMind handles all sales inquiries, account creations and support for all minFraud services.
• No membership fees are required to join the program.

"Our goal is to add value to our partners' services while providing our partners' clients with industry-leading online fraud detection tools," said TJ Mather, president and founder of MaxMind.

About minFraud
MaxMind's minFraud service is aimed at helping merchants prevent fraud from online card-not-present transactions. Through its comprehensive fraud screening system, merchants can accurately detect and automatically flag attempted fraudulent orders.

"MaxMind's minFraud service currently protects over 6000 e-commerce businesses," said Mather. "As fraudsters become more organized and the sophistication of their techniques improve, we see the importance of collaborating with other e-commerce businesses to provide merchants with more effective tools for preventing online credit card fraud."

To learn more about the Strategic Partnership Program, visit http://www.maxmind.com/app/partner.

About MaxMind
MaxMind is an industry-leading provider of geolocation and online fraud detection tools. MaxMind's GeoIP solution accurately pinpoints the geographical location of Internet visitors in real-time. MaxMind also offers the minFraud service for e-commerce businesses that accept card-not-present transactions. MaxMind is based in Boston, Massachusetts. To learn more about MaxMind, visit http://www.maxmind.com.