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jobs

Introduced	2005
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

jobs is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet approved by ICANN on April 8, 2005. It was part of the second group of new TLD applications submitted in 2004. It is restricted to employment-related sites. It was installed in the DNS root in September, 2005, and began accepting registrations later in the year.

The intended use is for companies and organizations to register some version of their corporate names in the jobs domain 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 format is Employ Media LLC.

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 feel 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.

[edit] Examples

In late 2005, katrina.jobs was set up by CareerBuilder as a source for jobs information for those affected by Hurricane Katrina.

[edit] External links

• Participating Registrars
• ICANN press release

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