Location: California

I put up a web site this morning, just for fun/to test my node.js skills, that allows people to submit, title, and tag links to things.

By my reading of the law, that makes me an Online Service Provider, and if I want to not get in trouble if someone manages to post a tag, title, or URL that is somehow copyrighted, I need to make sure I am covered under the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions.

From what I can find, in order to be covered under safe harbor, I need to register a registered agent for my business, list all the names I'm doing business as, and pay a $105 fee, plus $35 for every 10 names I do business as.

How do I interpret these requirements, given that I'm not doing business at all? How do I accomplish the necessary registration without allowing random people from the Internet to send pizzas to my house?

Do I just submit a registration for "Firstname Lastname", write "A project owned and operated by Firstname Lastname" on the site, put up an e-mail for DMCAs, and wait for the DMCA notices to show up? What if multiple people with my full name are in the database? Do I have to add every interactive project I make in the future as a "doing business as" name (and pay $105 again to update the registration), or can I "do business" as myself from a variety of URLs?

Is the $105 registration fee more than the expected value of my liability if I don't actually register but do solicit and act on takedown notices?

Finally, if I do process a takedown, do I have to send any sort of notification to the original submitter? Because right now I don't have any sort of log in functionality to track users.

For what it's worth, I can't find any other ordinary people not doing business as something in the database.