Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Domain Openness 
Through Continued Oversight Matters Act of 2015’’ or the 
‘‘DOTCOM Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. REQUIREMENTS FOR IANA STEWARDSHIP TRANSI-
TION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Until the date that is 30 legislative 
days after the submission to Congress of the report described 
in subsection (b), the Assistant Secretary may not permit 
the NTIA’s role in the performance of the Internet Assigned 
Numbers Authority functions to terminate, lapse, be can-
celled, or otherwise cease to be in effect. 
(b) REPORT DESCRIBED.—The report described in this 
subsection is a report that contains— 
(1) the proposal relating to the transition of the 
NTIA’s stewardship of the Internet Assigned Numbers 
Authority functions that was developed in a process 
convened by ICANN at the request of the NTIA; and 
(2) a certification by the Assistant Secretary 
that— 
(A) such proposal— 
(i) supports and enhances the multi-
stakeholder model of Internet governance; 
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(ii) maintains the security, stability, 
and resiliency of the Internet domain name 
system; 
(iii) meets the needs and expectations 
of the global customers and partners of the 
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority serv-
ices; 
(iv) maintains the openness of the 
Internet; and 
(v) does not replace the role of the 
NTIA with a government-led or intergovern-
mental organization solution; and 
(B) the required changes to ICANN’s bylaws 
contained in the final report of ICANN’s Cross 
Community Working Group on Enhancing 
ICANN Accountability and the changes to 
ICANN’s bylaws required by ICANN’s IANA 
Stewardship Transition Coordination Group 
have been adopted. 
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) ASSISTANT SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Assist-
ant Secretary’’ means the Assistant Secretary of Com-
merce for Communications and Information. 
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(2) ICANN.—The term ‘‘ICANN’’ means the 
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Num-
bers. 
(3) LEGISLATIVE
DAY.—The term ‘‘legislative 
day’’ does not include Saturdays, Sundays, legal pub-
lic holidays, or days either House of Congress is ad-
journed for more than 3 days during a session of 
Congress. 
(4) NTIA.—The term ‘‘NTIA’’ means the Na-
tional Telecommunications and Information Admin-
istration. 
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A bill to provide for 
certain requirements relating to the Internet Assigned 
Numbers Authority stewardship transition.’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 130 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 805 
[Report No. 114–175] 
A BILL 
To prohibit the National Telecommunications and 
Information Administration from relinquishing 
responsibility over the Internet domain name sys-
tem until the Comptroller General of the United 
States submits to Congress a report on the role 
of the NTIA with respect to such system. 
JUNE 23, 2015 
Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee 
of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and or-
dered to be printed 
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