Domain Registration Related News
Are dot.kids for EU
September 2005
The European Parliament wants a domain name developed to provide a
safe playground for children on the internet.
It has suggested setting up the domain as .kid that will only allow
websites that contain material suitable for children 12 years-old and
younger.
Prohibited content, includes any mature content, inappropriate
language, drugs, violence, tobacco, gambling, weapons and criminal
activity. The EU has suggested the sites should be regularly monitored
by an independent authority. It would mean that in an educational
context, some of this banned material may be allowed; but the
boundaries are vague.
However, a similar idea was rejected before by ICANN, the governing
body for the internet's naming system. It felt it would be too
difficult to control and had the potential to actually cause more harm
if unsuitable material managed to bypass its censors.
In addition such a domain may not be attractive for companies. A
similar scheme to the EU proposal already exists in the US and the .kids.us
has failed to attract many content providers.
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