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The Future of the kids.us Internet Domain

Posted by michael on from the thinking-of-the-children dept.

MxReb0 writes "The National Telecommunications and Information Administration will host a half-day forum, entitled 'The kids.us Internet Domain: Developing a Safe Place on the Internet for Children.' kids.us is a new direction of the www, overseen by the Department of Commerce and now offering registration. The forum will address the current state of the kids.us domain and future content and applications for the space. Will only allowing .kids.us sites be the new direction for a kid-safe internet?"

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  1. Re:Well about this.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Congratulations on your first post.

    And yes, the idea here is that the registrars would be required to check content on a regular basis, and they could cancel the account of anybody that hosts inappropriate material on the domain, a la what nic.cx did to goatse (which was well within their rights)

  2. Filtering by MBCook · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "Will only allowing .kids.us sites be the new direction for a kid-safe internet?"

    Assuming that the .kids.us thing works out, I think that would be a part of it. It seems to me that the prudent thing to do for filtering companies would be to filter against a blacklist for .kids.us sites, and a whitelist for all other sites. The other option would be to use filtering technology (and a blacklist of course) to filter out normal (non .kids.us) sites, and then allow all .kids.us sites (possibly subject to a blacklist).

    Either way, it will be interesting to see the problems this comes across (in sites that shouldn't be there getting there) and if it fails or not.

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  3. Kids.us domains are $100 per year! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Have any of you tried *registering* these domains? They're $100 per year! Look! http://resellers.000domains.com/ This looks like some scheme by someone who registered kids.us and wants to make money off of people by charging an insane amount for some "certification process".

  4. Kids safe until hacked by chris_mahan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Fictitious news, 1 year from now.

    The Atlanta Bee reports today that Kidland, the largest online kids resources website was hacked by two russian crackers and thousands of kids saw the most obscene and female-objectifying porn imaginable for thirty minutes while site adiministrators tried to restore normal service. Unable to do so, they shut the site down. It should be noted that the domain, kidland.kids.us, was specifically designed to provide an area on the internet safe for children.

    In other news, Paris Hilton claims she has nothing to do with the release of her adult video "Paris does Paris"

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  5. How about the other direction? by dozer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Will there ever be a .xxx tld? Seems like this would be a lot more useful...