The name eco is a proposed top-level domain The Domain Name System of the Internet consists of a set of top-level domains which constitute the root domain of the hierarchical name space and database. In the growth of the Internet, it became desirable to expand the set of initially six generic top-level domains in 1984. As a result new top-level domain names have been proposed for for the Domain Name System The Domain Name System is a hierarchical naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participants. Most importantly, it translates domain names meaningful to humans into the numerical (binary) identifiers of the Internet The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and . Its intended purpose is for Internet resources that address environmental or sustainability policy and related issues.
Prospective applicants
There are two prospective applicants for the eco top-level domain A top-level domain is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a fully qualified domain name. For example, in the :[1]
Big Room Inc.
Big Room Inc.'s Dot Eco[2]
Focus on broad range of environmental and social issues, with clear, enforceable registration and take-down rules.
Requires sustainability information disclosure and agreement to set of principles before registration is allowed.
25% of revenue (gross sales) to independent foundation (proposed, being discussed by dot eco Council)
Key questions on draft policies are open for debate: Policy
Known investors: Working Enterprises
Big Room's Dot Eco policies are being developed in collaboration with a multi-stakeholder council. These policies are now in their third draft (as of April 2010) after having been through two rounds of public comment. Consultations have been held in Sydney, Vancouver, Washington DC, Cape Town, Essen, and Lund.[3] ISEAL Alliance Code of Good Practice for Setting Environmental and Social standards . Participation on the council does not require or imply endorsement of Big Room's Dot Eco application.
Stakeholder Council Members:
Akatu Institute, Brazil
Conservation International Conservation International is a nonprofit organization headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, that seeks to protect Earth's biodiversity "hotspots," high-biodiversity wilderness areas as well as important marine regions around the globe. The group is also known for its partnerships with local non-governmental , United StatesDevelopment Alternatives, India Green Cross International Green Cross International is an environmental organization founded by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1993, building upon the work started by the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Green Cross International's mission is "to help ensure a just, sustainable and secure future for all by fostering a value shift and cultivating , SwitzerlandISEAL Alliance, United Kingdom One World Trust, United Kingdom Pax World Funds , United StatesResponsible Purchasing Network, United States Terrachoice, United States The David Suzuki Foundation , Canada
The Green Belt Movement, Kenya Verité, United States WWF International (World Wide Fund for Nature The World Wide Fund for Nature is an international non-governmental organization working on issues regarding the conservation, research and restoration of the environment, formerly named the World Wildlife Fund, which remains its official name in the United States and Canada. It is the world's largest independent conservation organization with ), Switzerland (Chair)
A number of partners are collaborating on technical elements of this application, as follows:
Dot Eco LLC
Dot Eco LLC[4]
Focus on climate change
50% of profits to Alliance for Climate Protection, Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation, and 350.org
Requires agreement to set of principles before registration.
Policy Development Process Known investors: TLD Holdings
Former US Vice President Al Gore Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election and the Alliance for Climate Protection The Alliance for Climate Protection is an organization founded in the United States in 2006 aiming to "persuade people of the importance, urgency and feasibility of adopting and implementing effective and comprehensive solutions for the climate crisis". The founder and current chairman of the alliance is former US Vice President Al Gore support the Dot Eco organization.[5] [6] [7] [5] climate change Climate change is a change in the statistical distribution of weather over periods of time that range from decades to millions of years. It can be a change in the average weather or a change in the distribution of weather events around an average . Climate change may be limited to a specific region, or may occur across the whole Earth .[8]
See also
References
^ The coming dot-eco boom: battling for the green domain ^ Big Room's Dot Eco ^ http://doteco.info/policy/regional-meetings ^ Dot Eco LLC website ^ a b "Gore group backs creation of .eco domain" . 2009-03-05. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jEVvFaSXZWgC94-RMAz9xoOrGibA . Retrieved 2009-03-09. "Dot Eco LLC, which has applied to the regulatory Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers for the .eco extension, made the announcement at ICANN's current meeting in Mexico City"
^ "Gore Pushing .Eco Domain Group" . http://www.businessinsider.com/gore-pushing-eco-domain-group-2009-3 . Retrieved 2009-03-09. "Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection is getting behind the movement to set up “.eco” as a new web domain" ^ "Al Gore joins call for new ‘.eco’ Internet domain" . http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/03/09/al-gore-joins-call-for-new-eco-internet-domain/ . Retrieved 2009-03-09. "Al Gore and his group, the Alliance for Climate Protection, have joined forces with Dot Eco LLC to call for a new top-level domain for environmental websites" ^ "Dot Eco TLD" . 2009-03-04. http://www.dotecotld.com/news.html . Retrieved 2009-03-09. "Added Cathy Zoi, CEO of the Alliance for Climate Protection: “The .eco initiative, as proposed by Dot Eco LLC, is a unique approach for fundraising for nonprofit environmental organizations such as ours"
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Generic top-level domains A top-level domain is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a fully qualified domain name. For example, in the
Current
general A generic top-level domain is one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet
.biz biz is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is intended for registration of domains to be used by businesses. The name is a phonetic spelling of the first syllable of business · .com The domain name com is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from commercial, indicating its original intended purpose for networks of general commercial character · .info The domain name info is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet, The name is derived from information indicating that the domain is intended for informative Internet resources, although registration requirements do not prescribe any theme orientation · .name The domain name name is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is intended for use by individuals for representation of their personal names, nicknames, screen names, pseudonyms, or other types of identification labels · .net The domain name net is a generic top-level domain used in the Domain Name System of the Internet. The name is derived from network, indicating its originally intended purpose for organizations involved in networking technologies, such as Internet service providers and other infrastructure companies. However, restrictions were never enforced and · .org The domain name org is a generic top-level domain of the Domain Name System (DNS) used in the Internet. The name is derived from organization · .pro The domain name pro is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from professional, indicating its intended use by qualified professionals
Sponsored A sponsored top-level domain is one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet
.aero aero is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) used in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is the first sponsored top-level domain based on a single industrial theme. The aero domain is reserved for companies, organizations, associations, government agencies, and individuals in aviation-related fields. It was created in 2002 and is operated by · .asia .asia is a sponsored top-level domain sponsored by the DotAsia Organization, with the back-end registry operated by Afilias. It was approved by ICANN on 19 October 2006 as a sponsored TLD. It serves as a regional domain for companies, organisations, and individuals based in the region of Asia, Australia, and the Pacific · .cat .cat is a sponsored top-level domain intended to be used to highlight the Catalan language and culture. Its policy has been developed by ICANN and Fundació puntCAT. It was approved in September 2005 · .coop .coop is a sponsored top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is intended for the use of cooperatives, wholly owned subsidiaries, and other organizations that exist to promote or support co-operatives · .edu The domain name .edu is a sponsored top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from education, indicating its intended use as a name space for educational institutions, primarily those in the United States. Although not officially mandated for much of the domain's existence, in practice it has been used · .gov The domain name .gov is a sponsored top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. The name is derived from government, indicating its restricted use by government entities in the United States. The gov domain is administered by the General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency of the United States federal government · .int The domain name int is a sponsored top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from the word international, characterizing it use for world-wide purposes · .jobs The domain name .jobs is a sponsored top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Indicated by its name, the domain is restricted to employment-related sites · .mil The domain name .mil is the sponsored top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet for the United States Department of Defense and its subsidiary or affiliated organizations. The name is derived from military. It was one of the first top-level domains, created in January 1985 · .mobi The domain name .mobi is a top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from mobile, indicating its use by mobile devices for accessing Internet resources via the Mobile Web · .museum museum is a sponsored top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet used exclusively by museums, museum associations, and individual members of the museum profession, as these groups are defined by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). In joint action with the J. Paul Getty Trust, ICOM established the Museum Domain Management · .tel The domain name tel is a top-level domain in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet. It was approved by ICANN as a sponsored top-level domain, and is operated by Telnic. Telnic announced in December 2009 that 275,000 tel domains had been registered since General Availability on March 24th 2009 · .travel The domain name travel is a top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name suggests the intended and restricted use by travel agents, airlines, bed and breakfast operators, tourism bureaus, and others in the travel industry · .xxx
Infrastructure
.arpa The domain name .arpa is a top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is used exclusively for technical infrastructure purposes. While the name originally was the acronym for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the funding organization in the United States that developed the precursor of the Internet (ARPANET), it now
Deleted/retired
.nato The domain name .nato was a top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. The domain was added in the late 1980s by InterNIC for the use of NATO, who felt that none of the then existing top-level domains adequately reflected their status as an international organization. Soon after this addition, however, the int TLD was created for
Reserved A top-level domain is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a fully qualified domain name. For example, in the
.example example is a name reserved by the Internet Engineering Task Force in RFC 2606 (June 1999) that is not intended to be installed as a top-level domain in the global Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet · .invalid invalid is a name reserved by the Internet Engineering Task Force in RFC 2606 (June 1999) that is not intended to be installed as a top-level domain in the global Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet · .localhost localhost is a name reserved by the Internet Engineering Task Force in RFC 2606 (June 1999) that is not intended to be installed as a top-level domain in the global Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet · .test test is a name reserved by the Internet Engineering Task Force in RFC 2606 (June 1999) that is not intended to be installed as a top-level domain (TLD) in the global Domain Name System (DNS) of the Internet for production use
Pseudo A number of pseudo-top-level domains to be used in naming computers have been defined at various times. These "pseudo-TLDs" or "pseudomains" include .bitnet, .csnet, .exit, .i2p, .local, .onion, .oz, .freenet and .uucp. Although these pseudo-TLDs look like top-level domains, and serve the same syntactic function in creating
.bitnet .bitnet was a pseudo-domain-style suffix used in the late 1980s when identifying a hostname not connected directly to the Internet but possibly reachable through inter-network gateways. In this case, it indicated that the hostname preceding it was reachable via the BITNET network. This was one of several apparent "top-level domains" that · .csnet .csnet is a hostname suffix that was used for identifying nodes in the Computer Science Network not directly connected to the Internet but reachable through special gateway systems. It was never installed as a top-level domain in the Domain Name System, but parsed in the message routing logic of mail transport agents (MTA) · .local local is a pseudo-top-level domain used in multicast domain name service of zero configuration networking discovery protocols. It is also often used by administrators of Microsoft Windows Active Directory environments as a top-level Domain Name System (DNS) domain for an internal organizational network that is not intended to be reachable directly · .root vrsn-end-of-zone-marker-dummy-record.root is a domain name listed in the DNS root zone as a diagnostic marker, whose presence demonstrates the root zone was not truncated upon loading by a root nameserver. It could be argued it represents a top-level domain of .root, although technically no such delegation exists · .uucp .uucp was a pseudo-domain-style suffix used in the late 1980s when identifying a hostname not connected directly to the Internet but possibly reachable through inter-network gateways. In this case, it indicated that the hostname preceding it was reachable by UUCP networking. This was one of several apparent "top-level domains" that were · .onion .onion is a pseudo-top-level domain host suffix designating an anonymous hidden service reachable via the Tor network. Such addresses are not actual DNS names, and the .onion TLD is not in the Internet DNS root, but with the appropriate proxy software installed, Internet programs such as Web browsers can access sites with .onion addresses by · .exit
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