The mysterious case of Ms. Carrie Prejean

[kandrathe]

I would consider capturing some information regarding the nature of the site a vast improvement, considering that currently when you register a domain there is no information other than business and technical contact information required.

There are identity proofs required to register a .gov and a .edu domain, but nothing disclosing the sites purpose for a .com, .org, .net, or .biz

Like I said, its just of heap of domains which is totally unorganized or categorized. You couldn't possible figure out anything about any site without actually visiting the site, and crawling though the content.

In real life when I'm shopping with my wife, or children for hardware I don't accidentally suddenly find myself in the lingerie shop (or worse).

And, my experience with content filters (implementing in places that are mandated to be filtered by law) are that they are only roughly capable of figuring out content. It would be much better if sites could be filtered at the domain level, rather than having to actually transfer the content to test it. Some that I've used have a room full of content surfers who go through sites by ip address and categorize the sites content, but they don't get to all of them. Also, you need to petition to get sites white listed again. For example, I remember one odd one; for some reason, a "Hello Kitty" site was flagged as porn.