RE: Employ Media sTLD Charter Amendment

["Brian Heifferon" <BHeifferon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

July 14, 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 AfterCollege, 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 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,
 
Brian Heifferon
Co-Founder
AfterCollege, Inc.
www.aftercollege.com
brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
415-263-1300 x111