More Powerful IPO Express Service Introduced by EDGAR Online

Expanded Tools for Financial Professionals and Investors

NORWALK, CT, February 8, 2000 - EDGAR Online, Inc. (NASDAQ: EDGR) today introduced a new version of the company’s IPO Express service (http://www.ipo-express.com), a resource for breaking IPO news, IPO calendars and in-depth searching of the company’s vast database of 3,400+ IPO companies and 1,500+ underwriters. The new IPO Express gives investors and other IPO stakeholders easier and faster access to more information about past, present and future IPOs. IPO Express offers a one-stop service with dynamic live updates.

Some useful features of IPO Express include:

• IPO Headlines – breaking news on the IPO market with updates throughout the day.
• IPO SuperSearch – in addition to the normal IPO Express search facility, “Supersearch” facilitates thorough searching of past, current and upcoming IPOs by additional criteria including executive officers, auditors, legal counsel, and principal shareholders.
• Lockup and Quiet Period Expiration Dates – comprehensive lockup and quiet period dates to follow post-IPO performance.
• Company Profiles – detailed data on each IPO company including offering details, management bios, shareholder listings and underwriter detail.
• Underwriter Database – data by underwriter on IPOs in registration, public, withdrawn and postponed.
• International IPOs –incorporates data on IPOs in countries from Argentina to Venezuela.
• IPO Performance – indexes the change in stock price of IPOs over time periods from 30 days to 1 year.

“IPO Express allows us to deliver an unparalleled IPO resource with its depth and breadth of IPO information,” said Susan Strausberg, CEO of EDGAR Online. “Investors can use the search capabilities of IPO Express to get complete information on every detail of an IPO from management team to legal counsel. With our expanded, easier to use service, IPO Express becomes a must-have resource for every stakeholder in the IPO marketplace.” For a free trial of the IPO Express email alert service, go to http://www.ipo-express.com and enter your email address.

About EDGAR Online, Inc.

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 OnlinePeople (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 and other data providers including Reuters (Nasdaq: RTRSY), Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO), Lycos, Inc. (Nasdaq: LCOS), Infoseek's GO Network (Nasdaq: SEEK), Standard & Poor's (NYSE: MHP), 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.

Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements:

“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 and changes in our business strategies.

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