Domain Registration Related News
The implications of new Top Level Domains '
.xxx' and '.kids.us'
June 2005
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN) has just announced that it has
entered into negotiations to establish .xxx as a
new Top-Level Domain (TLD). This comes on the
fairly recent heels of the establishment of .kids.us
as a TLD. So, what are the implications?
The idea behind the .kids.us TLD was to create a
safe place within the Internet for kids to surf.
Supposedly, parents could set the browsers of
their children only to access sites within this
TLD. Sites within this TLD are not permitted to
contain violent content, pornography, drug or
alcohol references, and interactive services such
as chat rooms and message boards are barred. All
material must pass a content review, and sites
within .kids.us cannot link to sites outside of
this TLD.
Sounds good, right? Well, actually, this concept
has not caught fire. Indeed, little more than 20
sites now are operational within .kids.us, a
couple years after this TLD was set up. Why?
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