Registering .jobs domains
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The intention of .jobs is to give Human Resource professionals their own TLD for their company to manage, promote and communicate employment opportunities. The sponsoring organization is the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
For each .jobs domain submitted for the Start Up Trade Name Period, the current fee is $50.00 USD per domain requested. These charges are non-refundable application fees, regardless of whether the domains requested are awarded to you.
Additionally, should you be awarded the .jobs domains you applied for, you will be charged an additional domain registration fee of $125.00 per domain per year (prices subject to change).
You will also need to complete an account authorization form to submit names. Please open and print a copy from article A100884. Be sure to update your My Info page of your account, including your credit card information. Please fax this form back to SuperbRegistrar (the number is on the form).
Policy and Restrictions for .jobs domains
The .jobs domain name is a restricted name space. The ability to secure a company name in .jobs is restricted to those that meet the following criteria:
- Tasked with hiring or other Human Resources duties on behalf of their own employer organization
- Authorized to purchase their companyname.jobs on behalf of their employer organization
- Who agrees to abide by the .jobs Use Policies
- Who agrees to abide by the SHRM Code of Professional Ethics
These .jobs policies are designed to deter the act of cybersquatting on a given company name. A primary objective of the validation process is to deter this before it can happen. That is one of the reasons why we take steps to validate your companyname.jobs application before it goes live.
While cybersquatting will be restricted, remember that the Internet is worldwide. A company in another country legitimately having your name can request and register a .jobs domain in which your company may also be interested in. Therefore, do not delay your application or you can lose out on registering your preferred .jobs domain name.
Who should register .jobs domain names?
The .jobs domain name has been designated specifically for hiring managers in every business. It is for those tasked with communicating employment opportunities at their organization along with those managing other human resource elements in their business. The format is simply www.companyname.jobs
Registrations in .jobs can only be for your company name, which means your legal or commonly known business name, or at least, must include that name. For example, if you are American Family Life Assurance Company, you may register names such as the following examples:
- AmericanFamilyLife.jobs
- AmericanFamilyLifeAssurance.jobs
- AmericanFamilyLifeAssuranceCompany.jobs
- AFLAC.jobs
- AFLAC-California.jobs
- AFLAC-Agents.jobs
Generic .jobs domain names
The ability to secure a generic word in .jobs is highly dependent upon your legal or commonly known company name. If you are not known by that word, you can not register it.
Additionally, various generic terms and identifiers, such as geographic names (major cities, countries, etc.), industry and occupational classifications, profane words and other terms of common interest to the HR Community are subject to the .jobs Reserve List Policy (RLP).
The RLP includes the following product categories. Domains in these categories are either registry-reserve or otherwise reserved from registration.
- Occupational and Industry - nursing.jobs, accounting.jobs, retail.jobs
- Geographic - cityname.jobs, regionname.jobs, zipcode.jobs
- ICANN-reserved - country.jobs, icann.jobs, iana.jobs
- Other Generics or Profanity - recruit.jobs, blow.jobs
Names reserved into any of the above categories are not available for registration in the companyname.jobs category. For more information, please visit the Registry website: http://www.employmedia.com
