In a strongly worded defense of the innovative .JOBS platform developed to serve both the international human resource management community and job seekers worldwide, Employ Media today filed a Request for Arbitration with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris, France, to resolve the Notice of Breach of Registry Agreement issued by the General Counsel for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) against Employ Media.
Filing that Request enables the .JOBS platform to continue functioning as it automatically stays any further enforcement action related to the Notice, which was issued February 27, 2011. Since then, Employ Media and ICANN unsuccessfully participated in a Cooperative Engagement process to try to resolve the matter.
Employ Media Chairman & CEO Tom Embrescia said, "This filing was necessary to ward off ICANN's unwarranted and unprecedented threat of contract termination. That action created immediate uncertainty about the .JOBS TLD on the Internet and caused significant duress on our business." Employ Media's sole business is that of being the licensed operator with ICANN for the .JOBS TLD on the Internet.
The Notice of Arbitration contains a detailed history of the lengthy and thorough process that ICANN utilized in approving Employ Media's plans – not once, but twice – to expand the initial .JOBS platform from companyname.jobs to include combinations of geographic and occupational domain names (like in the universe.jobs platform), such as newyork.jobs or marketing.jobs. The record shows that the company's plans were fully disclosed and debated during that process and were approved overwhelmingly by the ICANN Board of Directors.
Since that approval, more than 900,000 jobs are being listed on a daily basis from nearly 90,000 participating employers. Well over a million job seekers have visited the network of .JOBS websites in the few months since its launch.
Embrescia said, "Those statistics provide powerful evidence of the need for and benefits of this way for employers and job seekers to connect directly and safely – at no charge. Furthermore, ICANN's Core Values call for 'introducing and promoting competition in the registration of domain names where practicable and beneficial in the public interest.' The benefits of the universe.jobs platform are one reason why the U.S. Department of Labor and the National Association of State Work Force Agencies have joined with DirectEmployers Association, which manages universe.jobs, in a special program to help our military personnel and their families find post-service employment quickly and easily by using the platform."
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