EDGAR Online CEO Chosen as a
“Top 100 Silicon Alley Net Executive”

Susan Strausberg Joins Elite Ranks of Female Net Executives

NORWALK, CT, January 18, 2000 - EDGAR Online, Inc. (NASDAQ: EDGR) CEO and co-founder Susan Strausberg has joined the influential circle of Internet executives selected by the Silicon Alley Reporter magazine as the “Top 100 Silicon Alley Net Executives.” Of the 100 executives chosen, only 15 were women, demonstrating that Ms. Strausberg is part of a select group of women helping to shape the future of the Internet.

Joining Ms. Strausberg on the list are such industry notables as Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. (NYSE:MWD), Geraldine Laybourne of Oxygen Media, Candice Carpenter of iVillage.com (Nasdaq: IVIL), Mary Ann Packo of Media Matrix (Nasdaq: MMXI) and Esther Dyson, chairman of ICANN. As chief executive of EDGAR Online, Susan has brought her company to the forefront of the financial information industry. With EDGAR Online she has developed a service that quickly and easily satisfies the business intelligence needs of CEOs, CFOs, analysts, consultants, lawyers, investors, journalists and countless others. As described in the Silicon Alley Reporter, EDGAR Online “has thousands of subscribers who depend on its content for their own livelihood.” Her inclusion in the magazine’s top 100 list is a testament to the strength of her vision for the company.

Chosen by the editorial staff of the Silicon Alley Reporter, the Silicon Alley 100 is widely regarded as the essential listing of the top industry players in the Alley. The editors rank executives on the basis of their vision, execution, money, network and presence. Other notable executives included on the list were Michael Bloomberg of Bloomberg LP, Bob Pittman of America Online (NYSE:AOL), Sam Donaldson of ABC News (NYSE: DIS), Kevin Ryan and Kevin O’Connor of DoubleClick (Nasdaq: DCLK), Bob Lessin of Wit Capital (Nasdaq: WITC), Jim Cramer and Dave Kansas of thestreet.com (Nasdaq: TSCM), Joe DiGeso of Road Runner/Time Warner (Nasdaq: TWX) and Jay Walker of Priceline.com (NASDAQ:PCLN).

About EDGAR Online

EDGAR Online, Inc. (http://www.edgar-online.com and http://www.freeedgar.com and http://www.ipo-express.com) is a Web-based provider of business, financial and competitive information derived from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission data. Additional services include value-added functions like IPO Express, a service that provides easy-to-use, detailed information on IPO filings, pricings and performance, EDGAR Online People (http://www.edgar-online.com/people), a service that allows users to conduct research on corporate executive and directors, and EDGAR Online Personal, which provides real-time Web and email based alerting, and other personalized advanced searches of SEC data.

Based in Norwalk, Connecticut, with offices in Kirkland, Washington and New York City, EDGAR Online, Inc. has strategic relationships with portal, business and financial information Web sites including Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS), Infoseek's GO Network (Nasdaq: SEEK), CNET's SNAP (Nasdaq: CNET), Alta Vista, a CMGI Company (Nasdaq: CMGI), PointCast, Infospace (Nasdaq: INSP), CBS MarketWatch (Nasdaq: MKTW), SmartMoney.com (NYSE: DJ), CMPnet's TechInvestor, Hoover's (Nasdaq: HOOV), Quote.com, Business Wire, Track Data (Nasdaq: TRAC), MSNBC Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and NBC/General Electric (NYSE: GE) Big Charts. For more information, please visit the Company’s Web site at http://www.edgar-online.com/news.

"Forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 may be included in this news release. These statements relate to future events or our future financial performance. These statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results. EDGAR Online, Inc. disclaims any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. Please refer to the documents filed by EDGAR Online, Inc. with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which identify important risk factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to risks associated with changes in general economic and business conditions (including in the online business and financial information industry), actions of our competitors, the extent to which we are able to develop new services and markets for our services, the time and expense involved in such development activities, the level of demand and market acceptance of our services, changes in our business strategies.

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