This bill is offensive at best. Anyone who understands anything about the internet understands that a domain name is insignificant. Rarely do people just type a domain name in the browser address window. The truth is, it is the marketing of a site that is important. This bill should be unconstitutional. I can call a site whatever I want, then market it for another purpose. Marketing should not be regulated, but to play the false role of concern toward child safety to tell people what domain name they can use is absurd. What if your domain name is already established and then a big purple dinosaur comes out with the same name? Do you go to jail? Do you loose all of your hard work, traffic, business, and domain development? Or ath that point does this bill become an insignificant paradox?
Your domain name can land you in jail
I have attended premium internet marketing seminars. I could intentionally make and market porn sites to little children, but I do not want to. This bill does nothing to stop others as page title plays a far greater role in most (probably all) search engine result algorithms. People click more based on page title than domain name. At best this bill shows the technological ignorance of our leaders. At its worst this bill is offensive, intrusive, and potentially unconstitutional.
Anyone who wanted to exploit little children the way this bill proposes could easily buy and develop a porn domain. Later they then could pay to have someone else create a unrelated child appealing marketing ploy to capture the "target" child audience. Like this bill, I do not think this is practicle.
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I think hope and innocence are the two most valuable things in the world. I also tend to thank those anxious to bomb do not care much about child safety.
-Aaron Wall
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