Albert Gore lost to Mikhail Gorbachev in the struggle for the domain. Eco

Former US Vice-President Albert Mountains abandoned the struggle for a new .eco domain, thus losing the road to the USSR , the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, writes The Guardian.

As previously reported by the media, the parties entered the struggle for the possession of the right to the new domain in August this year. Two organizations submitted their applications - DOT ECO, which is supported by the mountains, and the Canadian company Big Room, which is associated with Gorbachev.

This is one of the hundreds of new top -level domains that will be added to the already familiar .com and .net domains. It is assumed that the. Eco domain will be launched in 2013. However, as the source of the newspaper said, the company Gora abandoned the struggle for the domain. According to its representative, the company intends to focus its resources on the development of other projects. However, the publication notes that the Big Room during the struggle managed to get great support for various environmental organizations, and this may have forced Dot Eco to abandon competition.

It is worth noting that the initiator of the creation of the domain zone. Eco was Albert Gore himself and his organization Alliance for Climate Protection. As Big Room previously stated, if the organization receives the rights to the. Eco domain, he will direct a quarter of profit to protect the environment and charity.