November 17, 2000

The Eye: WBR dot-com, dot-cc mix-up an Eye opener

Keeping an eye on Wyoming business news is no problem if you log onto The Wyoming Business Report’s Web site at www.wyomingbusiness.cc.

But The Wyoming Business Report – a recently formed subsidiary of The Northern Colorado Business Report – has nothing to do with www.wyomingbusiness.com, where Wyoming business is nowhere to be seen and funny business is only a click away.

Dot-cc URLs are signals that the Web is getting to be a crowded place. Just as new area codes proliferate, so do new Internet handles.

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But dot-cc has yet to earn the worldwide status of dot-com, dot-net or dot-org addresses, so the Eye won’t blame well-meaning Wyoming business watchers who, with the purest of intentions, log onto the Beijing Entertainment Group’s www.wyomingbusiness.com site.

But the Eye must warn unwary Web surfers.

Visitors of www.wyomingbusiness.com are bumped immediately to www.clubhongkong.com, where a dial pad of rectangular windows offers links to specialty sites on a variety of topics including: Health, Sports, Space For Rent, and You Must Be At Least 18 Years Old To Enter.

We’ve got to hand it to those business-savvy Chinese Web wranglers, though. The Beijing address offers to sell the wyomingbusiness.com URL – but the $7,500 price tag had the Eye looking elsewhere. That’s why that “cc” suffix is the only way in.

And while The Wyoming Business Report’s dot-cc site offers coverage of Wyoming business news, economic trends and real estate forecasts, its dot-com doppelganger offers less than can be seen by the naked eye.

Keeping an eye on Wyoming business news is no problem if you log onto The Wyoming Business Report’s Web site at www.wyomingbusiness.cc.

But The Wyoming Business Report – a recently formed subsidiary of The Northern Colorado Business Report – has nothing to do with www.wyomingbusiness.com, where Wyoming business is nowhere to be seen and funny business is only a click away.

Dot-cc URLs are signals that the Web is getting to be a crowded place. Just as new area codes proliferate, so do new Internet handles.

But dot-cc has yet to earn the worldwide status of dot-com, dot-net or dot-org addresses, so the…

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