.jobs
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| Industry: | Internet, TLD |
| Founded: | 2005 |
| Headquarters: | 3029 Prospect Ave. Cleveland, Ohio 44115 |
| Country: | USA |
| Website: | www.goto.jobs |
| Key People | |
| Tom Embrecia, Chairman & CEO | |
.jobs is a sponsored top-level domain managed and operated by its parent company Employ Media. It is considered the largest global e-recruitment network with more than 400,000 sites registered in the domain system.
The .jobs domain system was approved by ICANN on April 8, 2005. Registration in the domain system is exclusively intended for companies and organizations seeking to develop, and enhance their job related sites. It is unique compared to the other domain system since it allows corporation to register portion of their company name followed by the suffix .jobs as their URL (www.companyname.jobs) for example, www.americanexpress.jobs. This URL allows job seekers using the internet to go to the job page and connect with the human resource management of a certain company faster and easier.
.jobs screens and investigates every company applying for a .jobs domain making sure that they are legitimate and they are doing business under the name they represent. Registration for .jobs domain will cost companies an approximately $125 annually plus $35 for the initial set up fee through a network of accredited registrars.[1]
Sponsor
The Society of Human Resource Management(SHRM) is the sponsor and representative for .jobs. The Society is the world’s largest organization dedicated mainly in human resource management, which oversees the interests (hiring people, providing appropriate training and facilitating rewards and opportunities for individual advancement and achievement) for its hundreds of thousands of individual members (approximately 250,000) in more than 150 other countries around the world and it has 575 affiliated chapters in the US and subsidiary offices in China and India.[2]
Technical Support
The technical registry operations for the .jobs TLD is provided by VeriSign Naming and Directory Services, a division of VeriSign which is proven as an industry leader and world class provider of registry operations and maintenance. It also provides resolution, billing and customer support to .jobs.[3]