.eco

San Francisco — Sierra Club, America’s oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, announced it has joined Al Gore, the Alliance for Climate Protection and Surfrider in supporting Dot Eco LLC’s application to create a new “.eco” top level domain.

Website and email addresses ending in .eco will enable individuals to express their support for environmental causes, companies to promote their environmental initiatives and environmental organizations to maintain their websites in a namespace that is more relevant to their core missions. By charter and mission, a majority of the profits of the .eco initiative will be distributed to support environmental causes.

Dot Eco LLC recently entered into an integrated partnership with former Vice President Al Gore and his philanthropy “Alliance for Climate Protection” and is now partnering with Sierra Club, which supports Dot Eco LLC’s efforts to raise awareness about the dangers of climate change.

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is preparing to accept applications for .eco and other new web addresses, known as top level domains. (more…)

Caspar von Veltheim joins Dot Eco LLC as Director of German Operations

Munich, Germany, April 4, 2009 – Dot Eco LLC today announced that Caspar von Veltheim has joined Dot Eco LLC as Director of Operations, Germany. Dot Eco LLC also announced that a German-language version of their www.supportdoteco.com website is now available at www.punkteco.de. The German operations for Dot Eco LLC will be managed out of Munich, Germany.

With 82 million inhabitants, Germany accounts for the largest population among the member states of the European Union. The German “.de” top level domain boasts over 13 million registrations.

Dot Eco LLC recently announced an integrated partnership with former Vice President Al Gore and his philanthropy, the Alliance for Climate Protection, to secure and promote the .eco top level domain. Surfrider Foundation has also expressed its support for the .eco application.

“With its large internet-savvy population and high level of environmental concern and awareness, Germany represents a key area of focus for our .eco initiative,” said Fred Krueger, CEO of Dot Eco LLC. “We are pleased to establish a local presence in this important market.” (more…)