This is precisely why some of us distrust the USG's involvement in any naming scheme. They intend to decide "acceptable" content and applications, and to require full true-name IDs (DNA too?) on operators.
Oppressive regimes always license the printing presses and xerox machines. Will they also control any permutation of .kids, and any typewriter-hamming-distance perturbation, just in case users misspell things? ----- Other additions in the bill call for collection of detailed contact data from operators of dot-kids sites and the right to pull the plug on the domain or transfer oversight to another company if it isn't working out as planned. Right now, the legislation calls for Washington, D.C.-based NeuStar to oversee .kids.us, a second-level domain within .us. The legislation's supporters originally hoped to create a separate .kids domain that would function as a top-level domain similar to .com or .org. However, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN (news - web sites)), which oversees administration of such domains, put the kibosh on the proposal. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=73&ncid=73&e=2&u=/zd/20020412/tc_zd/5106116 .... Some legislators need their "plugs pulled", with extreme prejudice.