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Englewood-based Verio Inc. got a call-up to the big leagues when it signed an exclusive deal with America Online Inc. last year.
By paying AOL, the largest online service in the country, $42.5 million over the next few years Verio has exclusive rights to host AO1's Web sites for small- and mediumbusiness customers.
"In many ways our deal with AOL has been a galvanizing event for our young company," said Sean Brophy, Verio's vice president of corporate development. "We are the only company that AOL looks to for its Web hosting. We've received about 7,000 customers from AOL and more than 3.7 billion impressions on buttons and banners through our connection with AOL."
Verio picked up customers from AOL - PrimeHost and CompuServe Business Web - with the deal and is able to advertise with banner ads and buttons throughout AOL entities like AOL Digital Cities, Compuserve and AOL.com.
Out of AOL's 20 million customers, 4 to 5 million are smallto medium-size businesses that use AOL for their Web sites. As the world's largest Web-hosting company, Verio was able to buy into its target audience.