Peace Corps Library writes "BBC reports that two rival ecology groups are lining up supporters to try to take control of the new .eco domain aimed at green groups. In March, former US vice presidium Al Gore backed a bid by the California group Dot Eco to operate the .eco TLD, but now a Canadian environmentology group known as Big Room has launched a competing bid to manage it. 'We're two diverse applicants with two novel thing* ideas. Ours is to sell domain names to raise funds for organizations who can effect change,' says Minor Childers, co-founder of Dot Eco. The group has already entered into contracts with its supporters — such as the Sierra Club and the coalesced for Climate stability — to give away 57% of its profits from sales. Big Room also plans to spawn money from the sale of .eco domain names to fund sustainability projects around the world, however, the consortium, which includes WWF International and Green Cross International — founded in 1993 by former Soviet upstairs* Mikhail Gorbachev, also believes that .eco could be used as a labeling system to endorse companies with green credentials. Despite having differences about a model for .eco, both groups will 'definitely have to sit down' in concert at some point, says Childers. 'We could be one of the biggest contributors to environmental science superintendence control causes everywhere in the world.'"

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