Netscape says it has more than 25 million users

Netscape Communications, a unit of Internet service provider America Online, said on Tuesday it has more than doubled the number of registered users from a year ago to top the 25 million mark.

Netscape said the increased traffic came after its Netcenter service unveiled a redesigned home page "to help professionals better manage their business and personal lives."

Netscape said 105 million copies of its groundbreaking Navigator and Communicator Internet browsers were downloaded from Netcenter between January 1998 and December 1999.

It said the Netscape Open Directory Project, the open-source search service, now included more than 1.5 million Web sites.