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Also known as dot jobs

.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.

Key facts

Top level domain.name
.jobs
Top level domain.image
Dotjobs.png
Top level domain.image_size
200px
Top level domain.caption
Registry logo
Top level domain.introduced
2005
Top level domain.type
Sponsored top-level domain
Top level domain.status
Active
Top level domain.registry
Employ Media LLC
Top level domain.sponsor
The Society for Human Resource Management
Top level domain.intendeduse
For companies and organizations to post their job listings
Top level domain.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
Top level domain.structure
Direct second-level registrations are allowed
Top level domain.document
ICANN New sTLD RFP Application; ICANN Sponsorship Agreement
Top level domain.disputepolicy
UDRP

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

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.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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “.jobs” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.