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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">CURRENT REPORT



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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt">Date of report: <U>January&nbsp;4, 2005</U><BR>
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<P align="center" style="font-size: 24pt"><B><U>AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.</U></B>


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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><U>8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142</U><BR>
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)



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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>Item&nbsp;1.01 Entry into Material Definitive Agreement</B>

<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On January&nbsp;4, 2005, Akamai Technologies, Inc. (&#147;Akamai&#148;) entered into an employment agreement
(the &#147;Agreement&#148;) with Paul Sagan who will become its President and Chief Executive Officer
effective as of April&nbsp;1, 2005 (see Item&nbsp;5.02 below). Under the Agreement, Mr.&nbsp;Sagan is entitled to
an annual salary of $400,000 effective as of January&nbsp;4, 2005 and is to receive a grant of options
to purchase 250,000 shares of Akamai common stock at an exercise price equal to the fair market
value of Akamai&#146;s common stock on January&nbsp;4, 2005. The options vest according to the following
schedule: 25% on January&nbsp;4, 2006 with the remaining 75% vesting in equal installments of 6.25%
each quarter thereafter. If the Akamai Board of Directors approves a senior executive bonus plan
for fiscal year 2005, Mr.&nbsp;Sagan will be eligible for an annual incentive bonus award of up to 100%
of his annualized base salary based on achievement of specified individual and corporate
performance goals. Mr.&nbsp;Sagan will also be eligible to participate in any long-term incentive plan
for senior executives that the Akamai Board of Directors may adopt in 2005. If such a plan is not
adopted, or if it does not include the Chief Executive Officer, then the Compensation Committee of
the Akamai Board of Directors will consider an additional stock option grant to Mr.&nbsp;Sagan of an
additional 250,000 shares of Akamai common stock at a purchase price equal to the fair market value
on the date of such grant. If Mr.&nbsp;Sagan terminates his employment under certain circumstances
following a change in control of Akamai, vesting of a portion of his options shall accelerate and
he shall be entitled to lump sum cash payments equal to: two (2)&nbsp;years of his then-current base
salary and an award equal to two (2)&nbsp;times his then-applicable annual incentive bonus at target
(defined as fifty percent (50%) of his then-current annual base salary). If Mr.&nbsp;Sagan is
involuntarily terminated for any reason other than cause, he shall be entitled to lump sum cash
payments equal to: one year of his then-current base salary; an amount equal to 12 times the
monthly premium for continued health and dental insurance coverage paid by Akamai on his behalf in
the month preceding termination; and an award of his then-applicable annual incentive bonus at
target. In addition, if Mr.&nbsp;Sagan is involuntarily terminated in 2005 for any reason other than
cause, Akamai will accelerate the number of shares which will be deemed vested as though the grant
date of his options was the date eighteen (18)&nbsp;months prior to the grant date; if he is so
terminated in 2006, Akamai will accelerate the number of shares which will be deemed vested as
though the grant date of his options was the date twelve (12)&nbsp;months prior to the Grant Date; and
if he is so terminated in 2007, Akamai will accelerate the number of shares which will be deemed
vested as though the grant date of his options was the date six (6)&nbsp;months prior to the grant date.


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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Akamai announced today that George H. Conrades, its Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer, has resigned as Chief Executive Officer of Akamai effective as of April&nbsp;1,
2005 and will become the Executive Chairman of the Akamai Board of Directors on that date. In
addition, the Board of Directors voted to elect Paul Sagan, currently President of Akamai, to
succeed Mr.&nbsp;Conrades as Chief Executive Officer effective on April&nbsp;1, 2005. Mr.&nbsp;Sagan will retain
the title of President.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Akamai Board of Directors also voted today, January&nbsp;4, 2005, to increase the size of
Akamai&#146;s Board of Directors to 10 persons and elected Mr.&nbsp;Sagan to fill the vacancy created
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;On January&nbsp;4, 2005, Akamai issued a press release announcing the appointments of George H. Conrades
as its Executive Chairman and Paul Sagan as its Chief Executive Officer effective on April&nbsp;1,
2005.


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caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.


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    <TD colspan="2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #000000" align="left">                                      /s/ Melanie Haratunian
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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</B>


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<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>AKAMAI ANNOUNCES
EXECUTIVE SUCCESSION EFFECTIVE APRIL&nbsp;1, 2005</B>


<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>&#149;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<I>Paul Sagan to become
President &#038; Chief Executive Officer</I></B>

<P align="center" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>&#149;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<I>George H. Conrades to
become Executive Chairman</I></B>


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>CAMBRIDGE, MA, January&nbsp;4, 2005 &#150; </B>Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) today announced that
George Conrades, 65, will become Executive Chairman of Akamai, effective April&nbsp;1, 2005, the
sixth anniversary of his tenure as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. The Akamai Board of
Directors has elected Paul Sagan, 45, currently President of Akamai, to succeed Conrades as CEO.
Sagan, who will continue to hold the title of President, also was elected to the Company&#146;s Board of
Directors, which has been expanded to 10 members.

<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&#147;We&#146;ve made
significant progress since our founding in 1998, developing unique
technology and a global infrastructure, and then reaching
profitability and positive cash flow,&#148; said Conrades.
&#147;I&#146;m very proud of what we&#146;ve accomplished, and I&#146;m even more
excited about the opportunities ahead. We&#146;ve built an enviable
customer base, developed an industry-leading platform for the
delivery of content and applications, and attracted the best and the
brightest employees from around the world.&#148;

<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Conrades continued,
&#147;This is the right time to transition to the next generation of
Akamai leadership. We have a great management team in place, and I
join in the Board&#146;s unanimous support and confidence in
Paul&#146;s ability to continue driving Akamai&#146;s growth. As my
partner over the last six&nbsp;years, Paul has made many critical
contributions to Akamai&#146;s success. The Company is extremely
fortunate to have such an outstanding executive who has earned the
respect of Akamai&#146;s customers, employees, and shareholders.&#148;

<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Conrades&#146; tenure at Akamai is notable for the Company&#146;s emergence as a pioneer in the development
of the Internet as a crucial medium for conducting business. Joining Akamai in 1999, Conrades&#146;
executive management experience and leadership have been instrumental to the commercial success of
Akamai&#146;s content delivery service. Conrades spearheaded Akamai&#146;s rapid rise as the market leader
in content and application delivery, taking the Company public in October of 1999. Since then,
Conrades has managed Akamai&#146;s growth, navigating the Company through a market recession in 2001 and
2002, and building Akamai&#146;s customer base to over 1,200 enterprises and government agencies.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">&#147;Under George&#146;s leadership, Akamai successfully leveraged its industry-leading technology to
revolutionize how companies utilize the Internet for competitive advantage,&#148; said Martin Coyne II,
Lead Director of the Akamai Board. &#147;This transition is a natural
and long-planned evolution of
management responsibility by the Board. Our objective is to have the best possible leadership team
in place for continued growth while providing certainty about Akamai&#146;s succession plan for the
years ahead. We are delighted that George will continue in an active role as Executive Chairman
supporting Paul and his seasoned team in the execution of the company&#146;s business plan.&#148;



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<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">As a senior executive since Akamai&#146;s founding, first as Chief Operating Officer in 1998 and then as
President beginning in 1999, Sagan has been a member of the executive team for the company&#146;s entire
history. In these roles, he helped chart the course for many of Akamai&#146;s strategic
accomplishments. Most recently, he was responsible for the development of Akamai&#146;s multi-year
business strategy and plan.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt">Prior to joining Akamai, Sagan was Senior Advisor to the World Economic Forum, consulting to the
Geneva-based organization on information technologies issues. He has also held executive
management positions as President and Editor of Time Inc. New Media, and Senior Vice President of
Time Warner Cable Programming. Sagan was a co-founder of Road Runner, the first cable modem
service, and Pathfinder, one of the first Web properties that pioneered Internet advertising. He
is a three-time Emmy Award winner for broadcast journalism.


<P align="left" style="font-size: 10pt"><B>About Akamai<br></B>
Akamai<SUP style="font-size: 85%; vertical-align: text-top">&#174;</SUP> is the global leader in distributed computing solutions and services, making the
Internet predictable, scalable, and secure for conducting profitable e-business. The Akamai on
demand platform enables customers to easily extend their Web operations &#150; with full control &#150;
anywhere, anytime, without the cost of building out infrastructure. Headquartered in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, Akamai serves hundreds of today&#146;s most successful enterprises and government
agencies around the globe. Akamai is <I>The Business Internet</I>. For more information, visit
<u>www.akamai.com</u>.



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