If you've read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more strict laws. As of July 1st, South Dakota and Wyoming enacted laws requiring any website that hosts any...
Making TLDs for restricted content (.adu or .xxx) would be a super easy way to filter sites as well. To me it’s like putting Playboys or whatever at the top of the rack with an opaque plastic – nothing is physically stopping kids from getting to it except gross negligence from every adult in the vicinity.
Oh, looks like the TLD .xxx actually is a thing (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.xxx). Never heard of any site using it. I guess there’s generally zero pressure to register one.
Edit: did some research
No, that’s backwards. You want to whitelist, deny by default, not whack a mole a blacklist. Then you set it once and done. Hence the certification requirement to be on the whitelist.
There is nothing stopping a kid-friendly .com that is certified from having that site in .kids as well.