EDGAR Online Launches Redesigned Web Site

NORWALK, CT, June 7, 2000-- EDGAR Online, Inc. (NASDAQ: EDGR), the leading Internet provider of business, financial and competitive information derived from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) data, today announced that it has redesigned its http://www.edgar-online.com Web site, adding new continuously updating content, improving navigation and making many of its most popular features easier to use.

“We are very proud of our new site design,” said Susan Strausberg CEO of EDGAR Online, Inc. “Our Web sites are the most heavily used sources of SEC related information on the Internet, and we have incorporated the suggestions of many of our most frequent users in this site redesign. To encourage people to try our new services, we are offering a two-week free trial of our premium service.” The trial is available at http://www.edgar-online.com.

New features include:

- Live content on the home page, continuously updated throughout the day with the latest SEC news and filings and grouped together by filing categories including Institutional and Individual Ownership, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Insider Trading.

- New Navigation that displays Search tools at a glance on every page, including Full Text Search and one-click access into IPO Headlines, Filings, and Pricings on IPO Express.

- “This Week’s Filings,” a new section that organizes SEC news of the week by critical topics like Material Unscheduled Events, including Bankruptcies, Acquisition/Disposition of Assets, and Management Changes.

About EDGAR Online, Inc.

EDGAR Online, Inc. (http://www.edgar-online.com and http://www.freeedgar.com and http://www.ipo-express.com) is the leading business-to-business and 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 alerts, 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 over 50 business-to-business clients including Reuters (NASDAQ: RTRSY), Standard & Poor’s (NYSE: MHP) and ILX Systems as well as strategic relationships with over 200 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), Infospace (NASDAQ: INSP), CBS MarketWatch (NASDAQ: MKTW), SmartMoney.com (NYSE: DJ), Business Wire, Track Data (NASDAQ: TRAC), and MSNBC Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and NBC/General Electric (NYSE: GE). 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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