BBC: The former US vice president, Al Gore, is backing the creation of a new green .eco domain name. Dot Eco applied to create the domain which would then be used to host sites supporting environmental causes. “This is a truly exciting opportunity for the environmental movement and for the internet as a whole,” said Mr Gore. Dot Eco plans to apply to ICANN – the regulatory body that oversees domain names – for the creation of .eco later in 2009. Al Gore, who won a …