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Dot Jobs Proposal

  • To: <jobs-phased-allocation@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Dot Jobs Proposal
  • From: "Tony Lee" <tony@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:12:59 -0400

 
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

 

RE:  Employ Media sTLD Charter Amendment

 

Dear Chairman Dengate Thrush and Members of the Board:

 

I am writing on behalf of Adicio.com and CareerCast.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. Adicio.com, CareerCast.com and all of the
recruitment sites we power (over 800 around the globe), which would be
directly and adversely affected, oppose the unilateral expansion of the
.jobs charter to encompass regional and industry-specific second-level
registrations.  

 

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.

 

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."  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, industry and geographic
identifiers."  Employ Media's current request to permit the "registration,
use, and promotions of domains that are not the company names of the
registrant" 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.  

 

Employ Media does not have the support of online employment service
providers such as Adicio.com and CareerCast.com to add second-level
registrations that will be confusingly similar to established job boards.
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."  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.

 

Sincerely,

Tony Lee
Adicio Inc.
Chief Alliance Officer/EVP

106 Straube Center Blvd. Ste. FRO

Pennington, N.J. 08534

609-737-2442

tony@xxxxxxxxxx

 

 

Attachment: Letter_ICANN.DOC
Description: MS-Word document



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