User:Marie Cabural

.jobs is the latest global sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on the domain system of the internet on April 8, 2009 managed its parent company Employ Media LLC. Tom Embrecia is the Chairman and CEO of .jobs, which is considered as the new largest online job network today with more than 40,000 sites. The number of companies and organizations registering using the .jobs domain is growing every day.

The .jobs domain is exclusively intended for companies and organizations seeking to improve their e-recruiting strategy. It is unique compared to the other domain system since it enables corporations to register portion of their company name for example, www.americanexpress.jobs or www.disney.com. This allows job seekers using the internet to go to the job page and connect with the human resource management of a certain company easier and faster.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) provides sponsorship for .jobs. SHRM is the world’s largest organization dedicated in human resource management representing the interests of its more than 200,000 members in the United States as well as its members from more than 100 other countries worldwide.

The technical functionality of .jobs is provided by VeriSign, Inc. Registration for .jobs domain will cost companies an approximately $125 annually plus $35 for the initial set up fee.

.jobs screens and investigate every company applying for a .jobs domain making sure that they are legitimate and they are doing business under the name they represent. --Marie Cabural 14:09, 24 February 2011 (PST)