December 8, 2000

Community Colleges Step Up Fight to Use '.edu' Internet Addresses

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG

Community colleges have stepped up their fight for the right to use World Wide Web addresses ending in ".edu" -- an increasingly coveted distinction as colleges and companies compete for distance-education students online.

Two-year colleges technically are excluded from the ".edu" Internet domain, which government rules reserve for "four-year, degree-granting colleges and universities." Instead, most community colleges use addresses that include ".cc" followed

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