Please Reject .jobs Phased Allocation Program

["Jeb Blount" <jeb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please accept the attached comments submitted by SalesGravy.com in
opposition to the Employ Media request. We have attached below and as a PDF
document.

 

 

Dear Chairman Dengate Thrush and Members of the Board,

 

I am writing on behalf of my company SalesGravy.com, to urge you to reject
Employ Media's request for authority to permit second level registration of
strings that do not correspond to an employer's name in the .jobs sponsored
top level domain. 

 

About My Company

SalesGravy.com is a company that I personally founded in 2006. Since that
time we have worked tirelessly to build what is now the largest sales
specific job board and career website in North America. We have done what
every small business most do to grow - sacrificing our time, money and
resources to build a business from the ground up. We were unprofitable for
our first two years and we did not have the luxury of venture money or angel
investors. However, just as our brand recognition is gaining a foothold and
we are finally in the black, we find that we face the greatest threat to our
business yet.

 

Creates an Unfair Advantage

It is not that we oppose competition. I've always believed that competition
makes us stronger. But the unilateral expansion of the .jobs charter to
encompass regional and industry-specific second-level registrations creates
an unfair advantage in the market place that directly and adversely affects
our business and livelihood. We believe that this expansion, if allowed,
will destroy the business we have worked so hard to build. That hurts our
employees, vendors and our families.  

 

Under the terms of ICANN's request for proposals for new sTLDs dated 15
December 2003 (the "sTLD RFP"), applicants - including Employ Media - were
required to demonstrate that the proposed sTLD addresses the needs and
interests of a clearly defined community (the Sponsored TLD Community).  In
addition, applicants were required to demonstrate that the
policy-formulation procedures for the sTLD operate primarily in the
interests of the Sponsored TLD Community, and that the proposed sTLD enjoys
broad based support of the Sponsored TLD Community.[1]  

 

In its application, Employ Media proposed to serve the needs of human
resources professionals responsible for human resources management in the
corporate setting, and pledged to maintain .jobs as "a name space for
employers."[2]  It also promised to limit registrations to the legal name of
an employer and/or a name or abbreviation by which the employer is commonly
known and to prohibit registration of occupational and industry, and
geographic identifiers."[3]  Employ Media's current request for to permit
the "registration, use, and promotions of domains that are not the company
names of the registrant"[4] would fundamentally alter the Sponsored
Community for the .jobs sTLD and eliminate its pledge not to create second
level registrations of regional and industry-specific job boards.  

 

Please Reject

We strongly disapprove of  Employ Media's plans to add second level
registrations that will be confusingly similar to established job boards
like SalesGravy.com.  ICANN should not permit sTLD operators to "route
around" the sponsorship eligibility requirements in the sTLD RFP and the
protections built into the .jobs Registry Agreement to prevent "abusive
registration activities and other activities that affect the legal rights of
others."[5]  Approval would undermine the credibility of ICANN's commitments
in connection with the introduction of new top level domains in general, and
"community based" TLDs in particular.

 

[1]
http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/new-stld-rfp/new-stld-application-parta-15dec03
.htm

2 sTLD Applicant responses to request for further information, at page 48 of
177 http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/PostAppC.pdf

3 Id.  

4 http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/jobs-proposal-09jun10-en.pdf
(hereinafter, Employ Media RSEP Request")

5 .jobs Registry Agreement, Appendix S Part VII: Other Provisions (2.
"Community Value Criteria")

 

 

Sincerely,

 

Jeb Blount

CEO

SalesGravy.com

 

 

 

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[1]
http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/new-stld-rfp/new-stld-application-parta-15dec03
.htm

[2] sTLD Applicant responses to request for further information, at page 48
of 177 http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/PostAppC.pdf

[3] Id.  

[4] http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/jobs-proposal-09jun10-en.pdf
(hereinafter, Employ Media RSEP Request")

[5] .jobs Registry Agreement, Appendix S Part VII: Other Provisions (2.
"Community Value Criteria")

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