Local company markets .bz domain name

The information super highway, a gateway to a sometimes chaotic world, is being offered structure in Belize. University Management Limited, an offshoot of the University of Belize, is proposing that businesses and anyone wanting to identify their website with the country, should punctuate their site with Belize’s top level domain name, .bz. Registrar for the domain name, Carlos Namis, says that there are many benefits to be gained from BZ recognition.

Carlos Namis, Registrar, University Management Ltd.

“The University Management Limited is a company formed by the University of Belize and Datapro to manage, market and promote, the top level domain for the country of Belize, that is .bz. With that top level domain, Belizeans will be able to get their own domain to do Internet marketing and so forth.”

“You can have a second level domain. For example you can register channel5.bz. Now by having that, you can have control of that particular domain. You can create email addresses for every single client within your country. For example you can create Jose Sanchez@channel5.bz. Or you can use this particular domain to do Internet marketing, you can use sales@channel5.bz or you can say news@channel5.bz. So this is your domain, you can create as much email addresses as you want. I believe that is important for us to do a lot of Internet marketing. When you are sending an email to somebody, the first thing the person is looking for is your particular domain. We have the domain already, so they can see it’s a Channel 5 employee or it’s coming from that particular person or corporation.”

Namis says that it costs an annual fee of seventy-five dollars for companies to register and use the .bz domain name on their website. The registration for schools and churches is free.