sions or the application of the provision to other persons 
or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. 
TITLE I—COMBATING ONLINE 
PIRACY 
SEC. 101. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
(1) DOMAIN NAME.—The term ‘‘domain name’’ 
has the meaning given that term in section 45 of the 
Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. 1127) and includes any 
subdomain designation using such domain name as 
part of an electronic address on the Internet to iden-
tify a unique online location. 
(2) DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM SERVER.—The term 
‘‘domain name system server’’ means a server or 
other mechanism used to provide the Internet pro-
tocol address associated with a domain name. 
(3) DOMESTIC DOMAIN NAME.—The term ‘‘do-
mestic domain name’’ means a domain name that is 
registered or assigned by a domain name registrar, 
domain name registry, or other domain name reg-
istration authority, that is located within a judicial 
district of the United States. 
(4) 
DOMESTIC
INTERNET
PROTOCOL
AD-
DRESS.—The term ‘‘domestic Internet Protocol ad-
dress’’ means an Internet Protocol address for which 
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the corresponding Internet Protocol allocation entity 
is located within a judicial district of the United 
States. 
(5) DOMESTIC INTERNET SITE.—The term ‘‘do-
mestic Internet site’’ means an Internet site for 
which the corresponding domain name or, if there is 
no domain name, the corresponding Internet Pro-
tocol address, is a domestic domain name or domes-
tic Internet Protocol address. 
(6) FOREIGN DOMAIN NAME.—The term ‘‘for-
eign domain name’’ means a domain name that is 
not a domestic domain name. 
(7) FOREIGN INTERNET PROTOCOL ADDRESS.— 
The term ‘‘foreign Internet Protocol address’’ means 
an Internet Protocol address that is not a domestic 
Internet protocol address. 
(8) FOREIGN INTERNET SITE.—The term ‘‘for-
eign Internet site’’ means an Internet site that is 
not a domestic Internet site. 
(9) INCLUDING.—The term ‘‘including’’ means 
including, but not limited to. 
(10) INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ENFORCEMENT 
COORDINATOR.—The term ‘‘Intellectual Property 
Enforcement Coordinator’’ means the Intellectual 
Property Enforcement Coordinator appointed under 
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section 301 of the Prioritizing Resources and Orga-
nization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008 (15 
U.S.C. 8111). 
(11) INTERNET.—The term ‘‘Internet’’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 5362(5) of title 
31, United States Code. 
(12) INTERNET
ADVERTISING
SERVICE.—The 
term ‘‘Internet advertising service’’ means a service 
that for compensation sells, purchases, brokers, 
serves, inserts, verifies, clears, or otherwise facili-
tates the placement of an advertisement, including a 
paid or sponsored search result, link, or placement, 
that is rendered in viewable form for any period of 
time on an Internet site. 
(13) INTERNET PROTOCOL.—The term ‘‘Inter-
net Protocol’’ means a protocol used for commu-
nicating data across a packet-switched internetwork 
using the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet 
Protocol, and includes any predecessor or successor 
protocol to such protocol. 
(14) INTERNET
PROTOCOL
ADDRESS.—The 
term ‘‘Internet Protocol address’’ means a numerical 
label that is assigned to each device that participates 
in a computer network that uses the Internet Pro-
tocol for communication. 
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(15) INTERNET PROTOCOL ALLOCATION ENTI-
TY.—The term ‘‘Internet Protocol allocation entity’’ 
means, with respect to a particular Internet Protocol 
address, the entity, local internet registry, or re-
gional internet registry to which the smallest appli-
cable block of Internet Protocol addresses containing 
that address is allocated or assigned by a local inter-
net registry, regional internet registry, or other 
Internet Protocol address allocation authority, ac-
cording to the applicable publicly available database 
of allocations and assignments, if any. 
(16) INTERNET
SEARCH
ENGINE.—The term 
‘‘Internet search engine’’ means a service made 
available via the Internet that searches, crawls, cat-
egorizes, or indexes information or Web sites avail-
able elsewhere on the Internet and on the basis of 
a user query or selection that consists of terms, con-
cepts, categories, questions, or other data returns to 
the user a means, such as a hyperlinked list of Uni-
form Resource Locators, of locating, viewing, or 
downloading such information or data available on 
the Internet relating to such query or selection. 
(17) INTERNET
SITE.—The term ‘‘Internet 
site’’ means the collection of digital assets, including 
links, indexes, or pointers to digital assets, accessible 
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through the Internet that are addressed relative to 
a common domain name or, if there is no domain 
name, a common Internet Protocol address. 
(18) LANHAM ACT.—The term ‘‘Lanham Act’’ 
means the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the 
registration and protection of trademarks used in 
commerce, to carry out the provisions of certain 
international conventions, and for other purposes’’, 
approved July 5, 1946 (commonly referred to as the 
‘‘Trademark Act of 1946’’ or the ‘‘Lanham Act’’). 
(19) NONAUTHORITATIVE DOMAIN NAME SERV-
ER.—The term ‘‘nonauthoritative domain name serv-
er’’ means a server that does not contain complete 
copies of domains but uses a cache file that is com-
prised of previous domain name server lookups, for 
which the server has received an authoritative re-
sponse in the past. 
(20) OWNER; OPERATOR.—The terms ‘‘owner’’ 
or ‘‘operator’’, when used in connection with an 
Internet site, includes, respectively, any owner of a 
majority interest in, or any person with authority to 
operate, such Internet site. 
(21) PAYMENT NETWORK PROVIDER.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘‘payment 
network provider’’ means an entity that directly 
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or indirectly provides the proprietary services, 
infrastructure, and software to effect or facili-
tate a debit, credit, or other payment trans-
action. 
(B) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—For pur-
poses of this paragraph, a depository institution 
(as such term is defined under section 3 of the 
Federal Deposit Insurance Act) or credit union 
that initiates a payment transaction shall not 
be construed to be a payment network provider 
based solely on the offering or provision of such 
service. 
(22) SERVICE PROVIDER.—The term ‘‘service 
provider’’ means a service provider as defined in sec-
tion 512(k)(1) of title 17, United States Code, that 
operates a nonauthoritative domain name system 
server. 
(23) U.S.-DIRECTED SITE.—The term ‘‘U.S.-di-
rected site’’ means an Internet site or portion there-
of that is used to conduct business directed to resi-
dents of the United States, or that otherwise dem-
onstrates the existence of minimum contacts suffi-
cient for the exercise of personal jurisdiction over 
the owner or operator of the Internet site consistent 
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