Employ Media sTLD Charter Amendment

[Brad Boggs <bboggs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

/July 12, 2010/

/Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman
Members of the Board of Directors
International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330
Marina del Rey, CA 90292-6601
USA/

/Dear Chairman Dengate Thrush and Members of the Board:/

/I am writing on behalf of LatPro, Inc., 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. My organization (LatPro.com, 
DiversityJobs.com, and JustJobs.com) would be directly and adversely 
affected by this request and therefore opposes the unilateral expansion 
of the .jobs charter to encompass regional and industry-specific 
second-level registrations. /
/Since 1993, the community of online employment service companies--job 
boards, associations, staffing firms, newspapers and other publications 
that operate job posting and/or resume search databases--has effectively 
served working men and women and employers worldwide. These same 
organizations have also significantly improved the career prospects of 
veterans, minorities, disadvantaged persons and those affected by 
natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina. They have, in every 
respect, acted as "the Sources of Success," the trademark of the 
International Association of Employment Web Sites 
(http://www.employmentwebsites.org), their only industry trade association./
/This community is now threatened by the proposed expansion of the .jobs 
top level domain (TLD). The charter holder is attempting to extend the 
application of the TLD from its approved community--direct 
employers--into the online employment services community by introducing 
geocentric (i.e., Atlanta.jobs, NewYork.jobs, Athens.jobs) and 
occupation specific (i..e, nurse.jobs, salesperson.jobs, 
systemsanalyst.jobs) web sites. It now has a proposal to implement this 
plan before the governing board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned 
Names & Numbers (ICANN)./
/This proposal violates both the spirit and the letter of the charter 
holder's contract with ICANN. No less important, it will grievously harm 
the online employment services community and therefore my organization 
by confusing the job seekers and employers who have long been the 
customers of the community. /
/Sincerely,/

Brad Boggs
Director, Business Development
_LatPro.com <http://www.diversityjobs.com/>_  | _DiversityJobs.com 
<http://www.diversityjobs.com/>_  | _JustJobs.com
<http://www.justjobs.com/>_P: 954.727.8822
F: 954.333.3609
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