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.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
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