With more and more companies and individuals coming out against the Blockage Online Piracy Routine (SOPA), the author of the Senate version on Thursday predicted to study how his bill might touch the Domain Name Organisation (DNS).

SOPA, currently being thought in the House, and the PROTECT IP Routine (PIPA), which is making its way through the Senate, both away afterwards so-called “rogue” overseas Web sites that traffic in counterfeit goods—from fake handbags to prescription drugs. The bills would allow the Justice Department to have a courtroom society to closed down these sites and strike them from hunt engines. Detractors, however, argue that the bills are too encompassing and far-reaching, and could have unintended consequences on legitimate, U.S.-based Web sites.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat and generator of PIPA, articulated on Thursday that he is prepping an amendment to the bill that would ask a analyse into the effects of the bill ahead it is implemented.

“Through this process, [I] receive continued to learn concerns nearly the Domain Advert supplying from engineers, human rights groups, and others,” Leahy said. “I stay confident that the ISPs—including the cable industry, which is the largest association of ISPs—would not endure the legislation if its enactment created the problems that opponents of this supply suggest. Nonetheless, this is in fact a highly technical issue, and I am devised to recommend we pass it more canvass before implementing it.”

While one might argue that it would be best to figure out the ramifications of a note ahead voting it into law, Sen. Leahy enunciated the major issues that SOPA and PIPA would address must exist addressed as soon equally possible. The study, Leahy argued, will permit lawmakers to “focus on the other important provisions in this bill, which are essential to protecting American intellectual property online, and the American jobs that are tied to intellectual property.”