[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 15]
[House]
[Page 21146]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           FIRST PROSECUTION UNDER TRUTH IN DOMAIN NAMES ACT

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, as the author of legislation passed by 
Congress earlier this year and signed by President Bush known as the 
Truth in Domain Names Act, one can imagine my sense of satisfaction 
when yesterday I received a call from a United States Attorney in 
Manhattan to learn that the first prosecution under the Truth in Domain 
Names Act had taken place.
  Yesterday, Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged a Florida man 
with violating this new law that essentially makes it illegal to use a 
misleading Internet domain name to entice children to view pornography 
on the Internet. The defendant, John Zuccarini, had actually registered 
3,000 domain names that included misspellings and slight variations of 
popular names like ``Disneyland'' and ``Bob the Builder'' and then 
would lease them to pornographers to expose children to this prurient 
material.
  Thanks to the leadership shown here in Congress, by the President and 
by the U.S. Attorney James Comey, Mr. Zuccarini is now being brought 
into the halls of justice. And I am deeply humbled by this and felt the 
need today to rise and thank my colleagues for their support of the 
Truth in Domain Names Act and most especially the gentleman from 
Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner), chairman of the Committee on the 
Judiciary, and his capable staff, Phil Kiko and Beth Sokul, without 
whose effort the Truth in Domain Names law would not be in a position 
today to terrorize those who would prey upon our children on the 
information super highway.

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