lyno,

voltar's idea was just use .kid - but your/his suggestion probably makes too much sense to be adopted

.xxx's will never catch on so long as they are proprietarily owned and not an ICANN accredited TLD. They are a quick fad in the hopes of making new.net lots of money.

.kid or .kids is the real solution, but is something that is politically not acceptable to either side: it would be admitting that the internet is an "adult place", and that kids shouldn't be allowed to roam freely.

The politicos expect it to be like prime time TV, the occasional fart joke and the Friends girls with hard nipples, but not much else. They can't for the life of them imagine that they cannot control the net in that manner.

.kids would be like building a playground in the middle of the city, giving the children a safe place to surf. It would be VERY easy to make browsers kid safe, allowing them to only go to sites that reverse to .kids, and there could easily be a system of performance bonds or other used to assure that .kids domains are used only for child safe stuff. Charge a higher than average fee for the domain, and use that money to police the content and dis-active any site that isn't within the agreed parameters for a kid safe site.

disney.kids - google.kids (only kids domains!) - yahoo.kids ... the potential is there, and it would be EASY to set up...

not going to happen... some moron killed this idea already trying to do blahblah.kids.us - it went nowhere.

Alex

Exactly -
Would make economic sense, solve a real world problem, and a lot of other problems would go away.
But it probably wouldn't lead to re election |sad|

Thats the biggest problem - the fact that they believe that - but I'd be willing to bet that most people that do vote don't give a flip about the internet - except for the bible thumpers - at least the out-spoken "minority". The fact that only a small percentage of Americans vote to start with is the major factor in any of this BS happening in the first place - as long as they have their SUV and can call their kids at school on their cell phone their happy as clams and don't give a shit what happens in Gov't

Isn't the .kids thing the same as the .xxx thing?

You'd have to convince all the sites with kid friendly .coms to give those up & start using the .kids comains - and I think we all agree that NO ONE wants to give up an established .com domain (or any other established domain)

There is a simple solution to this at least for americans - VOTE FOR ANYONE EXCEPT BUSH

Nooone else would have cabinet members with the anti porn zeal he has.

Yes, and No.. lol
However, if push came to shove, would you rather change 70+% of the net? or 30%+. Most of which are easy to redirect.

Just me thoughts, we'll see.

Greenguy, no actually the .kids people could ALSO be .coms... 2 DNS entries, even, it wouldn't matter.

Think of it this way: You can let adults into a G rated movie, but you can't let kids into an X rated one. Browsers blocking down to just .kids would work fine, and we woudl still all be able to surf either .kids or .com or both... it wouldn't matter.

it creates a safe place for everyone, setup to the standards of kids. That is a million times easier to do.

Alex

The real bottom line is that until PARENTS start to take responsibility NOTHING is going to keep kids away from the sites we build. We, as responsible and ethical webmasters, can put in all the protections and cautions and self-imposed filters we can - but until PARENTS step up and start using these tools nothing is going to happen positively.

I have no kids, but trust me if I did their access to the internet would be closesly monitored and not ONCE would they be able to get online without supervision. They are CHILDREN afterall. Anyone that thinks they are capable of making responsible decisions is an idiot. Kids are like Siberian Husky's they will get into anything and everything they possibly can - NO is merely an invitation to mischief. Unless parents finally get a grip on reality and start policing their offspring, and as long as the legislature keeps coddling the parents for their own stupidity it's going to be ugly for us who market sex for a living.

I agree they are the same thing... in any proposal, making it attractive for webmasters to use the new tld is the key imho.. hopefully making it even more attractive than using a .com