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