.eco

by admin on August 19th, 2009

dot-eco Dot Eco LLC is dedicated to promoting the acceptance and implementation of the .eco top level domain, and is backed by leading ecological and philanthropic groups, environmentally conscious high-profile individuals, and leading scientific voices, including Al Gore, the Sierra Club, the Alliance for Climate Protection, Surfrider, Davis Guggenheim, Roger Moore, and Richard Muller. The overall membership of organizations supporting Dot Eco LLC’s project exceeds 3 million. The goal of Dot Eco LLC is to make .eco a ubiquitous and recognizable web address, much like .org, that provides a steady and growing source of funding for leading environmental organizations, and has committed to donating 57% of profits to environmental organizations. www.supportdoteco.com

Consumer Benefits: 10 million+ environmentally-conscious individuals and businesses
Supporters: Sierra Club (1.2 million members), Alliance for Climate Protection (4 million members), Surfrider Foundation (50,000 members), Al Gore

big-room According to Big Room Inc., Dot Eco will be a strong, sustainable and transparent place on the Internet for millions around the world. It will ask people to share their eco-impact and take action to help the planet when they register Dot Eco domains for their companies, organisations, products, or even themselves. All that sustainability information will be made transparent to the public. A quarter of the sales from Dot Eco names will go to environmental and social causes, creating a massive fundraising engine for bettering the world. This could include causes like climate change, oceans, wildlife preservation, poverty, clean technologies, as well as support for eco-research and innovation. Domain names are uniquely able to fight for our planet because they are global, accessible from any web browser, any time, anywhere, and already used by millions of organisations, companies and individuals. Once Dot Eco is built, it’s going to make it much easier for small and large businesses, organisations and individuals around the world to calculate, share and compare their eco-footprints. www.doteco.info

Supporters: Terra Pass, Green Cross International

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— Dennis Carlton, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago
"For more than three decades I have been trying to try to raise awareness about the very real and growing threat of the climate crisis. Today, as a part of this effort, I am here to propose a new top-level domain called “dot eco” for corporate, non-governmental, and individual environmental websites."

— Al Gore, Vice President
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— Verisign
“Dot Eco LLC, it’s partners and Sierra Club share
similar missions – to protect our communities and planet. Dot Eco has our full support for its application to ICANN for the .eco top level domain.”

— Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director
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—Christine Grahame, Member of the Scottish Parlement
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