CBO Scores DOTCOM Act

The Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters Act of 2015 (S 1551) would direct the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to retain responsibilities of overseeing the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) for a 30-day period after the agency submits a report to Congress that contains the proposed transition plan and a certification by the agency that the plan meets NTIA"s criteria for acceptance and that certain accountability measures have been adopted by the groups of stakeholders proposing the plan.

Based on information from the NTIA, the Congressional Budget Office expects that the new reporting requirement would not have a significant effect on the agency's workload and would have an insignificant cost. On June 19, 2015, CBO transmitted a cost estimate for HR 805, the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters Act of 2015, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on June 17, 2015. The two bills are similar and CBO’s estimates of the budgetary effects are the same.