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The Future of the kids.us Internet Domain
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?"
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.
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
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"
"Piter, too, is dead."
Will there ever be a .xxx tld? Seems like this would be a lot more useful...