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Intended use
The intended use of the domain jobs is for companies
and organizations to register some version of their cor-
porate names and use it for a site specifically aimed at
those seeking employment with that company, as distin-
guished from general corporate and marketing sites in
Introduced 2005 other top level domains such as com. For instance, as-
TLD type Sponsored top-level domain da.jobs is a site giving information about jobs available at
British supermarket chain Asda. The licensed operator of
Status Active the jobs domain is Employ Media LLC.
Registry Employ Media LLC In 2010, Employ Media LLC applied to ICANN to ex-
tend the charter under which Employ Media is autho-
Sponsor The Society for Human Resource
rized to sell the .jobs domains. If accepted, Employ Me-
Management
dia plans to create hundreds of thousands and perhaps a
Intended For companies and organizations to post million new, niche job boards and sell domains such as
use their job listings
Chicago.jobs to third parties. The International Associa-
Actual use In use tion of Employment Web Sites and dozens of other em-
ployment services organizations have objected.
Registration Registrations must be based on legal name
restrictions of company or organization and should be
It has been suggested that subdomains of other do-
made by people within the company mains, such as jobs.example.com, can be used without any
responsible for human resource new registrations on the part of the companies involved.
management However, there is no general consensus among compa-
Structure Direct second-level registrations are allowed nies or industry sectors for any such naming scheme, like
there is for the www prefix and other prefixes, so the
Documents ICANN New sTLD RFP Application; ICANN proponents of .jobs argue the domain can gain a mar-
Sponsorship Agreement
ket presence by allowing recruiters to communicate a
Dispute UDRP simple, direct URL destination of employment opportu-
policies nities to job seekers.
Website Goto.jobs The rules of registration in .jobs are designed to
prevent abuses by non-qualified parties by way of its val-
The domain name jobs is a sponsored top-level domain idating each request for registration.
(sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Indi-
cated by its name, the domain is restricted to External links
employment-related sites.
The domain was approved by ICANN on April 8, 2005 • Participating Registrars
as part of the second group of new TLD applications sub- • ICANN press release
mitted in 2004. It was installed in the DNS root in Septem-
ber 2005, and began accepting registrations later in the
year.
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Categories:
• Sponsored top-level domains
• 2005 introductions
• Employment websites
• Domain name stubs
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