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Environment-related TLD Applications

Overview In a widely covered June 13 announcement ICANN revealed a total of 1,930 applications for new top-level domains (TLDs). The full list of applied for TLDs can be found here. There were six environment-related TLD proposals: BIO, EARTH, ECO, GREEN, ORGANIC, and SOLAR. .BIO and one .ECO Applicant Propose Protections Big Room’s .ECO proposal is ‘community’ …

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How to Comment on our .ECO Application

ICANN has posted our .ECO application for public comment until August 12.  ICANN and its many evaluators will be following these comments closely. Ours is the only community-backed application in the environmental space…

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Community-designated Dot Eco Application

Big Room’s Community-designated application for the Dot ECO top-level domain (TLD) is now posted on the ICANN website. For ease of review, and because the ICANN version is unformatted, we have posted a formatted version of the two key sections here. Mission & Purpose [236kb PDF] This response explains the purpose and underlying principles for …

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Batched?

In the past few weeks, the .ECO domain was referenced in the Economist as an example of “.Combat“, in the blogosphere as the poor cousin of .GREEN, and in the Financial Times as a possible batching casualty. All of these are risks. So are further ICANN delays, objections, competitors, auctions, evaluations, etc., etc. Many would ask, why bother? It’s simply too much to manage. …

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International Environmental Leaders Call for Community Protection of Dot Eco Domain

More than 50 major environmental groups have called on ICANN to protect the .ECO domain, representing a ground swell of public interest and support.

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