Belize- [.BZ]
Barbados-[.BB]
Cuba-[.CU]
BVI-[.VG]
Dominica-[.DM]
Grenada- [.GD]
Haiti-[.HT]
Montserrat-[.MS]
St. Lucia-[.LC]
St. Vincent-[.VC]
Turks & Caicos- [.TC]
Everything you read on the web is connected to a domain. Domains are the life blood of information. If you own any of the above extension and decide to learn, partner, and develop any of these extensions into a thriving business, I say better for you. While I am at it, I do not like the .co.tt (trinidad) and the .com.jm (Jamaica). I think these extensions make it hard to compete in the Caribbean domain market. Maybe Jamaica and Trinidad should contact Icann and start to work on getting this resolved. In my research, I could not locate a valid explanation for why some domains had extensions like .TC and others had .co.tt.
Carlton Samuels was recently appoint to the Icann board. Icann governs internet domain extensions: To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet.
About Carlton Samuelts/Icann.org:
Carlton Samuels has been appointed as an At Large Advisory Committee member from Latin America / Caribbean. Carlton brings significant Caribbean experience and knowledge, and also an ability to facilitate consensus-building with the Latin American Internet community from his work as LACRALO secretariat.
Carlton works as a consultant and an adjunct lecturer at the Information Science Faculty of Humanities & Education in the University of the West Indies at Mona Kingston, Jamaica. He is a Jamaican and US national.
Previously, Carlton has worked as CIO & University Director of IT, University of the West Indies, Managing Director, Mona Informatix, as a registrar for the .jm ccTLD and VP, Network Systems, Neal & Massy Corporation as a senior executive with responsibility for regional network and telecommunications business segment for the largest Caribbean-based multinational.
Carlton's current and previous volunteer positions include being a foundation member of and the current secretariat for the Latin America and Caribbean Regional At-Large Advisory Organization (LACRALO), member of the advisory boards of Microsoft Partners in Learning and the Project Advisory Board of the Caribbean Universities Project for Integrated Distance Education (CUPIDE). Carlton has also been a member of the CARICOM ICT Task Force, a regional ICT leadership position charged with developing a cohesive ICT policy framework for Caribbean governments.
Carlton's educational background includes a degree in Natural Sciences from The University of the West Indies, a postgraduate degree in management information systems from George Mason University, US, and a postgraduate diploma in corporate strategy from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
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