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More Consumers Use DexOnline.Com(R) Than Any Other Local Online Search Site in 14-State Dex Region

Posted on: Wednesday, 6 September 2006, 09:00 CDT

CARY, N.C., Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- R.H. Donnelley announced today for the tenth consecutive quarter more consumers in the 14-state Dex region chose DexOnline.com(R) (http://www.dexonline.com/) than any other local online search site to find the businesses that offer the goods and services they seek. According to the latest independent usage data from comScore, DexOnline.com generated the most local online searches, almost twice as many as the next closest competitor. R.H. Donnelley provides local online search services and printed directories under the Dex brand.

Following DexOnline.com, the top local online search sites in the Dex 14-state region include: Yahoo! (includes Yahoo! Yellow Pages and Yahoo! Local), SuperPages, Google Local and Yellowpages.com.

"The continued leadership of DexOnline reflects the strength of our local search experience," said Simon Greenman, senior vice president of digital strategy, innovation and products. "Consumers want relevant, accurate and complete information when searching for who sells the products and services they seek in their communities, and no one does it better than DexOnline.com."

Later this year, the company will launch the next generation of DexOnline.com, which will include new features such as draggable maps and map-based search, comparison-shopping pages, user-generated itineraries for multi-stop shopping, and personal contact lists to help consumers build personalized online yellow pages. This new site will also serve as the foundation for a next-generation site that will begin rolling out across the remaining R.H. Donnelley footprint in the first quarter of next year.

"Our goal is to connect advertisers with consumers, wherever and whenever they are looking to purchase goods and services," said Greenman. "With our trusted and established relationships with small- and medium-sized businesses across our markets, we are uniquely positioned to deliver a superior level of local content to consumers and deliver even greater value to advertisers."

About R.H. Donnelley

R.H. Donnelley (RHD) is the nation's third largest Yellow Pages publisher with significant online local search capabilities. The company has more than 4,000 employees operating in 28 states across the United States. Every day, consumers rely on the company's more than 625 directories, online city guides and local search Web sites to find businesses that provide the products and services they need. RHD's directories, which have a circulation of approximately 80 million, are marketed under three of the industry's most recognized brands: AT&T Yellow Pages (formerly SBC Yellow Pages) in Illinois and northwest Indiana; Dex(R) Yellow Pages and EMBARQ Yellow Pages(TM) (formerly Sprint Yellow Pages(R)). R.H. Donnelley's expanding presence on the Internet now includes the Best Red Yellow Pages(R) brand at bestredyp.com(R) in its EMBARQ Yellow Pages markets, in RHD's AT&T Yellow Pages markets at CHICAGOLANDYP.com and local search services through Dex at DexOnline.com(R).

Safe Harbor Provision

Certain statements contained in this press release regarding RHD's future operating results or performance or business plans or prospects and any other statements not constituting historical fact are "forward-looking statements" subject to the safe harbor created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Where possible, the words "believe,""expect,""anticipate,""intend,""should,""will,""planned,""estimated,""potential,""goal,""outlook" and similar expressions, as they relate to RHD or its management, have been used to identify such forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements reflect only RHD's current beliefs and assumptions with respect to future business plans, prospects, decisions and results, and are based on information currently available to RHD. Accordingly, the statements are subject to significant risks, uncertainties and contingencies, which could cause RHD's actual operating results, performance or business plans or prospects to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these statements.

The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ from those set forth in the forward-looking statements: (1) the risk that the legacy Dex and RHD businesses will not be integrated successfully; (2) the risk that the expected strategic advantages and cost savings from the Dex Media merger may not be fully realized or may take longer to realize than expected; (3) disruption from the Dex Media merger making it more difficult to maintain relationships with customers, employees or suppliers; and (4) general economic conditions and consumer sentiment in our markets. Additional factors that could cause RHD's results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements are described in detail in the registration statement on Form S-4 that RHD filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") (Registration No. 333-129539), which contains the joint proxy statement/prospectus relating to the transaction, RHD's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 in Item 1A "Risk Factors," Dex Media's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 in Item 1A "Risk Factors," as well as RHD's and Dex Media's other periodic filings with the SEC that are available on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov/.

R.H. Donnelley

CONTACT: Investors, Jenny L. Apker of R.H. Donnelley, +1-800-497-6329,jenny.apker@rhd.com; or Media, Jerry Brown of Dex Media, +1-303-784-2451,jerry.brown@dexmedia.com

Web site: http://www.dexonline.com/http://www.dexmedia.com/

Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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