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Dot-jobs could get shut down by ICANN

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ICANN, the Internet’s addressing authority, has sent Employ Media, along with its sponsoring organization, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), a letter saying the company is in breach of the .JOBS charter. In the [...]

RecruitingBlogs.com and Recruiter.com merge

September 2, 2010

Recruiter.com and RecruitingBlogs.com Inc. announced a definitive merger agreement today, creating a new US-based company called Recruiter.com, LLC. The merged company will provide an integrated platform to facilitate recruiter and HR social networking, knowledge sharing, [...]

Coalition study finds ICANN .jobs comment review process flawed

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The .JOBS Charter Compliance Coalition, a group of organizations and companies united by a common opposition against the .jobs vote, petitioned the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) last week to reconsider their [...]

The widening disparity between selling and using trademarked names in search

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There have been some new developments on how trademark law will treat selling a trademark as a keyword for directed search vs. how the law will punish those who use a trademark in a domain [...]

.jobs domain expansion approved – ideas encouraged

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The expansion of the .jobs domain to include location- and profession-specific URLs has been approved by ICANN. “We’re very pleased with the decision rendered by the ICANN Board,” said Tom Embrescia, chairman of Employ Media. [...]

What’s up with this .jobs stuff – and should I care?

April 27, 2010


In 2005, the top level extension (TLD) known as ‘.jobs’ was born. A company called Employ Media was assigned to manage the registration and marketing of the new domain, and SHRM signed on as the TLD’s sponsor.

Why did SHRM decide that the .jobs extension was worth sponsoring? They believed that a TLD specifically focused on careers would help its members do a better and more cost effective job of recruiting new people. So if you worked f…