.jobs Registration

The .jobs registration is a new form of domain registration services exclusively intended for the use of hiring managers and professionals in the human resource management community. The .jobs is a recently introduced top level domain, officially designated by ICANN on April 8, 2005. It is a sponsored domain extension under the administration of Employ Media LLC. The Society for Human Resource Management is the official sponsoring organization of this domain.

With .jobs domain extensions, the job seekers can easily seek online employment opportunities. Business and corporate entities can post their job openings on this .jobs extension page within their corporate websites.

The most commonly used form of domain registration under .jobs extension is companyname.jobs. Before the introduction of this domain extension, jobs' suffixes were used as sub-domains of other domains such as jobs.ibm.com. Trademarks are allowed, provided that these are also the names of the companies. Domain names containing abbreviated form of the company's name are also permitted.

The .jobs extension is a restricted domain. If you want to secure a .job domain, you must agree with the criteria provided in the JOBS Use Policies. Employ Media LLC firmly discourages the act of cyber-squatting. Before accepting the application for .jobs registration, the registry take necessary steps to check the validation of the company's name provided for domain registration.

Real-time registration is not possible with .jobs domain. Employ Media does not sell the .jobs domain extensions directly. You can purchase .jobs from registrars for a period of one year to any number of years. The .jobs domain name registration will last until expiration date under no obligation. Renewal is possible. Examples of reserved .jobs domains are nursing.jobs, accounting.jobs, retail.jobs, cityname.jobs, zipcode.jobs, country.jobs, icann.jobs, and recruit.jobs.

Registering a job site with .jobs extension enables the job seekers to easily identify job providers on the Internet. It is a simple, consistent and fast method of reaching the ultimate users. With .jobs registration, you will get a standard form of URL like www.companyname.jobs instead of www.companyname.com/general/jobs.