Gore applies for web domain (.eco)

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Gore applies for web domain


Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection has joined a group applying for the ".eco" World Wide Web, I'm told.

Gore's alliance has formed a partnership with the environmentalists heading Dot Eco Ltd, which is applying to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers for the rights to the generic top-level domain associated with the environment, the equivalent of ".org" or ".com" in Internet infrastructure.

“We fully support Dot Eco LLC in its efforts to secure the .eco top level domain through the ICANN application process and look forward to working with Dot Eco LLC to promote .eco. This is a truly exciting opportunity for the environmental movement and for the internet as a whole,” says Gore in a statement going out this evening.

The group says its profits will go largely to environmental causes. The producer of Gore's "Inconvenient Truth," Davis Guggenheim, sits on its board.

And Gore, who never actually quite claimed to have invented the Internet, though he did have some hand in getting it up and running, can claim to have partially invented a domain.

Others applying for the new domains are expected to include corporations, local governments -- New York City will seek ".nyc" -- and a new group of applicants using different alphabets.009.