Chek.com To Provide Free E-mail for Retired.com

The most desired place in life is now the most desired e-mail address on the Web – “YourName@Retired.com”

November 9th 2000

BUFFALO, NY & LA JOLLA, CA – Chek.com (www.chek.com), the leading E-Communications Infrastructure Provider for Portals, Businesses and Service Providers, today announced it has partnered with Retired.com (www.retired.com) to offer free web-based e-mail on their website. Chek.com’s technologically advanced mail system will power the new service, allowing retirees from around the world to send and receive e-mail free of charge. Retired.com is a new “peer-to-peer” (P2P), interactive community portal focused on the lifestyle interests for the millions of online consumers over 50 years old.

“Having a Retired.com e-mail address is like having a vanity license plate. Being retired is an achievement, an identity, something you work all your life to finally become. You’ve earned it, now we help you flaunt it,” Darren Hardy – Founder and President of Retired.com.

Chek.com’s proprietary e-mail technology and standard mail protocols will provide Retired.com’s visitors with the world’s fastest and most dynamic e-mail solution available. Its secure, dependable service includes filters, online folders for organizing mail, 3MB of disk storage, attachment capabilities, and an address book. They will be able to access their e-mail whenever and wherever they use the Web.

“Achieving retirement status is something most everyone looks forward to,” said Chek.com CEO George Chamoun. “The Retired.com website now adds e-communication services to their plethora of features, including Travel, Lifestyle, Finance and Wellness. Chek.com’s services will assist retirees in communicating with friends and family on the Web.”

According to Zona Research, Inc., retirees or “seniors” are currently the fastest growing segment of online consumers, spending three times more than average Internet shoppers. Over the next several years, 70 million “baby boomers” will join the already 55 million seniors to create the largest U.S. population category expansion in history. The spending habits of older Americans characterize them as one of the most desirable markets on the Internet today. Retired.com’s P2P portal seeks to capitalize on this growing adult segment by providing a forum for millions of seniors to interact with each other, find and participate in groups around their interests, and easily navigate the Web through Retired.com’s
exclusive Web Directory. Retired.com has connected more than 5,000 sites in 15 categories and 323 different sub-categories that are centered on the interests and needs of retirees.

Chek.com provides e-communications services for more than 275 prominent organizations including Major League Baseball’s Houston Astros and Kansas City Royals, the National Football League’s Buffalo Bills, the National Hockey League’s Buffalo Sabres, Anheuser-Busch’s Budweiser Beer, the PGA, Weider’s Muscle & Fitness magazine and EMAP Publishing’s Motor Trend magazine.

About Retired.com
Retired.com is committed to becoming the preeminent lifestyle destination for those planning for or have already reached retirement. The Web-based service will offer a lively and exciting place for active retirees to get involved with the electronic world by meeting new people, finding valuable resources, learning new and unusual things, receiving the latest news, and staying connected with family and friends. By creating the ultimate lifestyle resource for retirees supported by online and offline media channels, Internet, magazine, video and television – Retired.com will be leading the way as the website of choice for seniors; the largest growing demographic in history. To receive information about Retired.com, register at www.retired.com.