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Introduced | 2005 |
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TLD type | Sponsored top-level domain |
Status | Active |
Registry | Employ Media LLC |
Sponsor | The Society for Human Resource Management |
Intended use | For companies and organizations to post their job listings |
Registration restrictions | Registrations must be based on legal name of company or organization and should be made by people within the company responsible for human resource management |
Structure | Direct second-level registrations are allowed |
Documents | ICANN New sTLD RFP Application; ICANN Sponsorship Agreement |
Dispute policies | UDRP |
Registry website | secure |
.jobs is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. As indicated by its name, the domain is restricted to employment-related sites.
The domain was approved by ICANN on April 8, 2005, as part of the second group of new TLD applications submitted in 2004. It was installed in the DNS root in September 2005, and began accepting registrations later in the year.