COUNTRY DOMAIN NAMES
If you were to type the web address “www.jamaica.com” into the address bar of your Internet browser, you might expect to be taken to a site owned or operated by a Department of the Government of Jamaica, containing information about the civic affairs of Jamaica. Instead, however, you would be taken to a site which is owned by a private Canadian - based company, Caribbean Online, which sells vacations to the Caribbean. What is more amazing is that the typing in of the web address of “www.barbados.com” will take you to the same site. So will the address “www.trinidad.com”...
Since we all appreciate the value of domain names and their important trade mark – like qualities, how is it that the names of these various sovereign Caribbean nations are owned and used by private interests from outside the region? How is it that the various regional Governments have failed to take steps to prevent or remedy this state of affairs?
This paper was presented by Mr. Peter Goldson at the Commonwealth Law Conference in Nairobi (September 2007) to continue reading
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