.jobs

Country:	USA
Manager:	Employ Media
Registry Provider:	Verisign
Date Implemented:	2005
Type:	sTLD
Community TLD:	Yes
Key people:	Tom Embrescia, Chairman & CEO Ray Fassett Matt Embrescia
More information:

.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 domain as it acts as a supplement to a company's traditional site, which allows a corporation to register their company name followed by the suffix .jobs; This URL allows job seekers using the internet to go to the job page and connect with the human resources department of a given company faster and easier.

Every company applying for a .jobs domain is screened to ensure that they are legitimate and they are doing business under the name they represent. Registration for a .jobs domain costs approximately $125 annually, plus $35 for the initial set up fee through a network of accredited registrars.

Sponsor

The Society of Human Resource Management is the sponsor and representative for .jobs. The society is the world’s largest organization dedicated to human resource management, which oversees the collective interests for its 250,000+members; which are found in more than 150 countries. It has 575 affiliated chapters in the US and subsidiary offices in China and India.

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.

Phase Allocation Program

On June 9, 2010, Employ Media submitted a proposal to ICANN to amend the .jobs charter and implement the Phase Allocation Program with the following components similar to other TLDs:

• RFP (Request for Proposal)to invite interested parties to propose specific plans for registration, use ad promotion of domains that are not their company names.
• By auction rounds that offers domains not allocated through the RFP process.
• At first-come, per served real-time release of any domains not registered through the RFP or auction process.

Prior to the submission of the proposal to ICANN, the Phase Allocation Program was approved by a super majority vote from the PDP Council, which was created and supervised by the SHRM to review the proposed amendments to the .jobs policies, and business rules on June 3, 2010. The program was also approved by Employ Media and SHRM.

The ICANN Board evaluated Employ Media's Phase Allocation Program proposal and determined there is no significant threat to the security and stability of the internet DNS and there are no competition issues. On June 15, 2010, ICANN opened a public comment regrading the proposed amendment to the Appendix S of the .JOBS Registry Agreement.

On August 5, 2010, the ICANN Board approved the implementation of the Phase Allocation Program.

Following ICANN's approval on the Phase Allocation Program, Employ Media issued a Request for Proposal (RFP) on August 11, 2010 regarding its plan to allow the registration of industry, occupation, geographic and dictionary names within the .jobs domain space. The RFP process started on August 26 until September 24, 2010.

.JOBS Universe

On January 2011, Employ Media launched the .JOBS Universe. an interactive, community-driven network of 40,000 thousand of job related sites wherein more than 500 leading U.S. employers joined to enable job seekers to easily find job opportunities. Examples of websites available in the .jobs universe include boston.jobs, insurance.jobs, military.jobs, technology.jobs and many other geographical and industrial jobs. One moth after the launch of the .JOBS Universe, Employ Media reported that more than half-million Americans visited the site.

Top-Level Domain

Policy Development Process