Corporate Sale Fuels EDGAR Online’s Growing

Business Segment EDGAR Online to Supply Key Information for Dun & Bradstreet’s “Million Dollar” Directory on the Internet

NORWALK, CT -- June 12, 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 entered into an agreement to supply Dun & Bradstreet an extensive, customized package of SEC-derived information to enhance D&B’s “Million Dollar” Directory on the Internet.

The D&B Million Dollar Directory on the Internet, available at (http://www.dnbmdd.com/) provides information on over 1,300,000 U.S. leading public and private businesses. Company information includes industry information with up to 24 individual 8-digit Standard Industry Classification codes, size criteria (employees and annual sales), type of ownership, principal executives and biographies.

EDGAR Online will make available present and past annual and quarterly financial reports, key managers’ compensation, reports of significant corporate events and profiles of officers and directors.

Sale Feeds Fastest Growing Business Segment

“Dun & Bradstreet is a ‘must-have’ name on our corporate client list. We greatly appreciate D&B’s recognition of the quality, accessibility and dependability of EDGAR Online’s technology and of our information products,” said Tom Vos, EDGAR Online’s president and chief operating officer. “Corporate sales such as this transaction with Dun & Bradstreet have become a premier engine of our growth, rising in the first quarter to almost fourfold from a year earlier, to account for more than 40 percent of this year’s first quarter revenues.”

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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