Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, has joined Ranking Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska as the proud owner of a .com domain name, thanks to Internet registration retailing giant GoDaddy.

The company's general counsel, Christine Jones, testified Tuesday at a hearing on Internet safety and children. During her testimony, she informed Inouye that she purchased the Web address "chairmaninouye.com" in anticipation of the hearing.

GoDaddy bought Stevens his own domain name when he was chairman of the panel in the 109th Congress. Inouye's Web address is "parked" for now and there was no word from the lawmaker on how (or if) he planned to use it. GoDaddy domains cost $8.95 to register.

Look for full coverage of the hearing in Technology Daily's PM Edition.

Update: Jones tells me that she has registered "a whole bunch of names," including ChairmanSmith.com and ChairmanWhitfield.com -- she does it every time she testifies.

In the 109th Congress, Texas Republican Lamar Smith chaired the House Judiciary Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property Subcommittee and Kentucky Republican Ed Whitfield chaired the House Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.