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As I recall many were not happy with Newstar's stuartship of .US not to mention Kids.us.  See ICANNWATCH.COM for some history there. 

Big companies need to develop there kids.us names or give them to someone who will example AOL owns Health.kids.us why isn;t it developed they can;t afford the 250bucks application fee??once one big company gets in the directory it will be a domino effect,,im also looking for sponsors to keep my development going,, www.Games.Kids.us www.Space.Kids.us and more

If Melinda and Neustar are so worried about awareness then why are they silent on this requirement:

"Dot Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act” (Public Law 107-317)

"(f) EDUCATION - The United States Department of Commerce’s NTIA shall carry out a program to publicize the availability of the new domain and to educate the parents of minors regarding the process for utilizing the new domain in combination and coordination with hardware and software technologies that provide for filtering or blocking. The program under this subsection shall be commenced not later than 30 days after the date that the new domain first becomes operational and accessible by the public."

30 Days after the first Kids.us went live every parent and child in the USA was to be made aware of the kids.us

Was this Kids.us space nothing more than lip service to american parents by these autthors of the bill Congressmen John Shimkus (R-IL), Edward Markey (D-MA), and Fred Upton (R-MI)

Did Bush sign the Bill just for Image ?

Did Neustar take up the Kids.us just for the lucrative contract extension to run the parent dot .US namespace ?

We have a government agency not promoting Kids.us as required by law.

We have Politicians ... once again only playing the part of concern.. if it were real concern the Bills authors would have raised holy H after they were informed that their bill was not being implemented to the letter of the law. (and they were informed)

We have a Company in Neustar that appears to have no real interest in developing the .Kids.us namespace ..they have had a year to include developed Kid.us websites into the Kids.us Directory...Websites that are ready to go..

So everyone is Happy; the politicians look good in the public eye because they nmade it look like the care about the Kids..

The government agency required to publize the Kids.us namespace needs not comment on anything...they can simply hide within the beuracracy

And we have a company relieved they dont "really" have to incur the cost of ACTUALLY developing Kids.US..

I think we should hold Congress partially responsible for the underwhelming response to .kids.us.  After all, Congress believed it could legislatively manufacture a zone for kids without any clear support that the market wanted this space in the first place.  Eric.