OPPOSITION TO PROPOSED CHANGE IN .JOBS CHARTER

["Kelli Romero" <membership@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

July 15, 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: Opposition to Employ Media Request to Change sTLD Charter

Dear Chairman Dengate Thrush and Members of the Board:

The American Association of Grant Professionals, a nonprofit membership
association, builds and supports an international community of grant
professionals committed to serving the greater public good by practicing the
highest ethical and professional standards. AAGP is THE place for any grant
issues. We provide a national conference, professional certification (GPC),
webinars, member benefits and more! AAGP's Job Center (
<http://grantprofessionals.org/jobs/about.aspxis>
http://grantprofessionals.org/jobs/about.aspxis) is the premier job board
for grant professionals.  

I am writing on behalf of the American Association of Grant Professionals
Job Center  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. American
Association of Grant Professionals Job Center, which would be directly and
adversely affected, opposes 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.[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] The limited nature of the .jobs Sponsored Community is
reflected by the applicant's commitment to limit registrations to the legal
name of an employer and/or a name or abbreviation by which the employer is
commonly known. According to the sTLD Application, "due to restrictions set
forth in this proposal, a registration in the .jobs sTLD will be associated
with an employer,"[3] and Employ Media committed to prohibit registration of
occupational and industry, and geographic identifiers." The bottom line is
that as proposed by Employ Media and approved by ICANN, the .jobs sTLD is
intended to serve HR professionals and recruiting firms representing direct
employers only, in each case by using the legal name of such employers as a
registration at the second level. That community does not include online
employment services providers like [insert Association Name/Job Board Name],
nor did Employ Media demonstrate the support of online employment services
providers in connection with the .jobs sTLD Application.

Employ Media's current request for authority to permit the "registration,
use, and promotions of domains that are not the company names of the
registrant"[5] 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 did not attempt
to demonstrate the support of online employment services providers and their
vendors, and in fact went out of its way to avoid contacting job board
operators about the proposed expansion.[6] This is not surprising, given
that Employ Media intends to add second level registrations that will be
confusingly similar to established job boards. 

As a material change to the .jobs Registry Agreement, this request must be
reviewed by the ICANN Board based on applicable criteria from the sTLD RFP.
Under those criteria, the request should be rejected as an attempt 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."[7] Approval of the .jobs Phased Allocation Program would threaten
the integrity of the RSEP process and undermine the credibility of ICANN's
commitments in connection with the introduction of new top level domains in
general.

Sincerely,


Gail Vertz, CEO
American Association of Grant Professionals

____________________

[1]
http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/new-stld-rfp/new-stld-application-parta-15dec03
.htm
<http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=156570530&sid=10099808&m=1059179&u=Boxwood&;
s=http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/new-stld-rfp/new-stld-application-parta-15dec
03.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
<http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=156570530&sid=10099809&m=1059179&u=Boxwood&;
s=http://www.icann.org/en/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/PostAppC.pdf>  
3 Id. 
4 Id. 
5 http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/jobs-proposal-09jun10-en.pdf
<http://www.mmsend2.com/ls.cfm?r=156570530&sid=10099810&m=1059179&u=Boxwood&;
s=http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/jobs-proposal-09jun10-en.pdf>
(hereinafter, Employ Media RSEP Request")
6 Id.
7 .jobs Registry Agreement, Appendix S Part VII: Other Provisions (2.
"Community Value Criteria"). 

____________________

 

 

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