Bill Warren the former President of Monster.com, has big plans for the .jobs extension.
No this is not one the new proposed gTLD’s.
Employ Media LLC was granted the right to manage the .job registry all the way back in April of 2005.
You can currently register a .jobs domain for $120 at Godaddy.
Warren hopes to launch the DirectEmployers Association, a group formed by more than 500 large companies. Warren is executive director.
The association’s plan calls for companies to list its job openings using the “.jobs” extension.
AT&T is currently listing its job opening at ATT.jobs.
DirectEmployers’ software will automatically code such listings to make them easily searchable by city or occupation.
The association also will sort the listings in as many as 30,000 regional “.job” web addresses it hopes to begin rolling out in March, such as “atlanta.jobs“.
The group hopes to add thousands of occupational domain names, such as “engineer.jobs“, later this year.
Companies that belong to the association pay a $15,000 annual membership fee and will receive prominent placement on the “.jobs” websites.
Of course the .jobs sites are going to have to compete with sites like Monster.com and careerbuilder.com.
However you have to admit if Mr. Warren can get the big boys to go with the program Geo based, professional based and corporate based .jobs site do make some sense
So what do you think can Mr Warren’s plan save the .jobs extension?
As usual, doing it for personal gains$$$$
Good move by both sides. Just one of the ways that new gTLDs can succeed – by teaming up with existing powers in a niche space.
I can’t believe you failed to mention rim.jobs. 🙂
I’d rather spend $15k on a nice dot COM any day of the year
.jobs makes sense as a tld and it obviously does need a new approach to make it truly viable on the internet. I have a large, quality jobs collection which I’ve been assembling for years and personally believe jobs/career is a good space to be in.
The proposed Geo.jobs is a pretty clean, logical domain. Whether or not Fortune 500 get on board, who knows. Will take some doing. Jobs domains are definitely good for development.
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.jobs is a very niche market TLD in these days of heavy job loss worldwide… 🙁
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probably it’s due to the fact that I don’t own nor sell .tv or .jobs or .name or similar domains… but I really don’t see the advantage to buy them
in my opinion, a domain like cnn.com always is better than a cnn.tv …or, there is anyone in the world who doesn’t know that cnn is a TV network? 🙂
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the only interesting domain of this kind could be Steve.Jobs but it’s already taken
http://whois.domaintools.com/steve.jobs
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the only interesting domain of this kind could be Steve.Jobs but it’s already taken
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Interesting whois record on steve.jobs
Domain Name: STEVE.JOBS
Registrar: EMPLOY MEDIA LLC
Whois Server: not defined
Referral URL: http://www.employmedia.com
Name Server: No nameserver
Status: PENDING-CREATE
Updated Date: 23-feb-2006
Creation Date: 23-feb-2006
Expiration Date: 23-feb-2016
Status of pending-create don’t think I have ever heard of that one and the domain is 4 years old.
No servers.
I wonder if the owner has had to pay 4 years of registration and renewal fees on this and can’t use it.
This actually would go to my post yesterday about “trademark” rights running to the right of the dot or not