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Dot VN President Lee Johnson Writes to Shareholders
GlobeNewswire
2010-03-11


SAN DIEGO, March 11, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Dot VN, Inc.
(www.DotVN.com) (OTCBB:DTVI) Co-Founder and President Lee Johnson
writes to shareholders as follows:

Dear Friends:

On Monday, March 8, 2010, Dot VN began beta testing our new portal
Info.VN. This event marks both a major milestone for the Company and
for me personally. When my brother, Thomas M. Johnson, Co-Founder and
CEO of Dot VN, and I began this journey over 12 years ago, we never
imagined where it would take us. Our vision seemed simple enough; bring
all of the amazing ideas and services that we were seeing in the U.S.
to Vietnam. We believed that we could fundamentally change and improve
the lives of the Vietnamese people with the right combination of
technology, infrastructure and education and we were determined to see
this idea through.

We recognized early on that it was imperative that Vietnam establish
its own identity on the Internet and that the best way to do this was
to support the development of the Vietnamese Top Level Domain ".vn".
Therefore, for the past 10 years our focus has been supporting and
growing the Vietnamese Internet. It was so important to us that we
adopted the name "Dot VN" for our company because we believe ".vn" is
more than simply a collection of websites and data; it represents the
knowledge, culture and spirit of the 85 million people that live there.
To us, the continued growth of the Vietnamese Internet represents the
best way to share that knowledge, culture and spirit with the rest of
the world.

Over the last seven years, we have seen the Vietnamese Internet grow at
an unimaginable rate, nearly doubling every year. Today, there are over
23,000,000 Internet users and approximately 137,000 domains registered,
putting Vietnam second in the Southeast Asian region behind Singapore.
We've come a long way from the 4,000 registered domain names that we
started with in 2003. Yet, this success yields new challenges, and
demands that we continue to innovate and grow.

More domain names mean more content. News sites, games, video, music,
blogs and cutting-edge online services are launching daily at breakneck
pace fueled by excitement and passion for technology. The Vietnamese
Internet is growing and evolving by the second before our eyes and this
gives rise to a new problem -- how to find what you are looking for. We
think Info.VN is the answer to this problem.

"Info.VN" is an idea that has been four years in the making. With the
guidance and support of the Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre
(VNNIC), we are developing a unified hub for the Vietnamese Internet
which makes it accessible to both Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese users.
From this hub, we hope to launch products and services which are true
to our mission: to improve the lives of Vietnamese citizens through
technology by helping them to access their government and educational
resources and creating a richer user experience. We have started
aggregating news and information to make it easier for people to find
what they are looking for. But we want to go further than that.

In the coming months, we plan on launching a variety of services which
we hope will change the way that people use the Vietnamese Internet. We
are building directories of local businesses and government services to
help people find and access these resources in a more convenient and
technologically advanced manner. We plan on building a Vietnamese
social network to help connect people and let them keep in touch. We
want to develop an online education platform that will supplement
classroom learning for all Vietnamese students. We hope to drive
registrations of Vietnamese language domain names so that every
Vietnamese person both young and old will be able to have their own
domain name in their own native tongue. We want to serve as a resource
for people interested in the culture and beauty of Vietnam and help
them discover all of Vietnam's hidden charms. Every one of these steps
brings us closer to our goal of improving the functionality of the
Vietnamese Internet and brings us all closer together. An ambitious
dream I suppose, but then again, the most important ones often are.

In closing, I would like to thank all our shareholders and partners for
your continued support. Your encouragement has allowed us to come this
far and I look forward with great hope and exhilaration toward the road
ahead of us. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Lee P. JohnsonCo-Founder and PresidentDot VN, Inc.

About Dot VN:

Dot VN, Inc. (www.DotVN.com) provides innovative Internet and
Telecommunication services for Vietnam. The Company was awarded an
"exclusive long term contract" by the Vietnamese government to register
".vn" (Vietnam) domains and commercialize Parking Page Marketing/Online
Advertising worldwide via the Internet. Also, Dot VN has exclusive
rights to distribute and commercialize Internet Data Center solutions
and Gigabit Ethernet Wireless applications to Vietnam and Southeast
Asia region.

Forward-Looking Statements:

Statements in this press release may be "forward-looking statements"
within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of
1995. Words such as "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect,"
"intend" and similar expressions, as they relate to Dot VN or its
management, identify forward-looking statements. These statements are
based on current expectations, estimates and projections about Dot VN's
business based, in part, on assumptions made by management. These
statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks,
uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore,
actual outcomes and results may, and probably will, differ materially
from what is expressed or forecasted in such forward-looking statements
due to numerous factors, including those described above and those
risks discussed from time to time in Dot VN's filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission. Factors that could materially
affect these forward-looking statements and/or predictions include,
among other things: (i) our limited operating history; (ii) our ability
to pay down existing debt; (iii) unforeseen costs and expenses; (iv)
potential litigation with our shareholders, creditors and/or former or
current investors; (v) Dot VN's ability to comply with federal, state
and local government regulations in the US and foreign countries; (vi)
Dot VN's ability to maintain current agreements with the government of
Vietnam and enter into additional agreements with the government of
Vietnam; and (vii) other factors over which we have little or no
control. In addition, such statements could be affected by risks and
uncertainties related to product demand, market and customer
acceptance, competition, pricing and development difficulties, as well
as general industry and market conditions and growth rates and general
economic conditions. Any forward-looking statements speak only as of
the date on which they are made, and Dot VN does not undertake any
obligation to update any forward-looking statement to reflect events or
circumstances after the date of this release. Information on Dot VN's
website does not constitute a part of this release.


CONTACT:  Dot VN, Inc.
          Thomas M. Johnson, Chairman and CEO
          858-571-2007 x14
          Inquiries@DotVN.com
          www.DotVN.com
          Register your ".vn" domains at:  www.VN

          North Shore Public Relations, Inc.
          Media Contact:
          Renae Placinski
          847-945-4505
          Renae@NorthShorePR.com
          www.NorthShorePR.com