Back in August of 2009, I reported that there were two major groups already vying for the .eco TLD. We are only months away from ICANN beginning to accept applications for new TLD’s and according to an article on BusinessGreen.com, Dot Eco LLC, a company that was backed by former Vice President Al Gore has dissolved and withdrawn its bid for the .eco TLD. The company’s website SupportDotEco.com has been taken down and interestingly enough the domain now forwards to MindandMachines.com.
This news comes as a delight to Big Room, a Canadian company that is supported by Green Cross International and other charities in the environmental space. Big Room is the other player that has been developing it’s plans and preparing its application for the .eco TLD over the past two years. The homepage for Big Room’s .eco movement is now DotEco.org (DotEco.info now forwards here).
I think that Big Room is very well positioned to win the .eco TLD and I really like ideas and goals they are developing if they in fact become the .eco registry. The video below is one of several released by the doteco.org that shares its vision for the TLD.
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Article by Kevin Murphy with much more detail on the logistics of the community application process and talks about M+M’s potential for the .eco bid (which I was not aware of). http://tiny.cc/qng3b