Your thoughts?


http://www.employmedia.com/

I doubt we'll ever see more than a dozen sites actively using it. Why would a company sign up for ibm.jobs when they could just make jobs.ibm.com?

Originally posted by DanX
I doubt we'll ever see more than a dozen sites actively using it. Why would a company sign up for ibm.jobs when they could just make jobs.ibm.com?

I couldn't agree more. Also, this is a regulated tld, so unless you can prove to the registry that you 'deserve' the domain, they will not issue it to you. This includes ALL general domains such as search.jobs ICANN made a big mistake wasting their time with this junker.

Quote below directly from the registry's website.

I want to secure a generic name in .jobs, such as "Nursing.jobs" or "Tokyo.jobs". Will this be allowed?
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.

we've already had 1 recruitement company ask us to secure their companyname.jobs - the marketing guru's think that puuting their own HR needs on it plus plenty of "if your looking for a diferent job click here" kind of thing will bring in more trade

Between .jobs and .xxx, I'll choose the former anytime. :D

But seriously, .jobs? Unless the entity that's getting the desired
.job name continues telling everyone and anyone about it, it's just
useless.

And since speculators are practically not allowed to get it, what's
the point?

what's the point? [/B]
So Steve Jobs gets his own tld ;)

othellotech,

Yea, some people are lucky :)

As for .jobs extension, I do not see any point why one should use .jobs instead of .com

Originally posted by othellotech
So Steve Jobs gets his own tld ;)

I wonder if Steve got it. It says it's registered when I checked at
Go Daddy. :)

Funny, though, that employmedia is currently using .com instead
of .jobs. At least for now, anyway. :D

since they dont allow generics, it wont last for much

exactly like what was mentioned why would it be ibm.jobs which ibm.com/jobs or jobs.ibm.com is free

The only way that I could even see it used would be if someone were setting up a niche employment site (ie. computerprogrammer.jobs). Other than than I agree that a company would just create something like jobs.ibm.com rather than puttting any effort into marketing .jobs.

Originally posted by lal19541
The only way that I could even see it used would be if someone were setting up a niche employment site (ie. computerprogrammer.jobs). Other than than I agree that a company would just create something like jobs.ibm.com rather than puttting any effort into marketing .jobs.

thing is they dont allow generic name to be registered , so programming.jobs london.jobs webdesigners.jobs are not allowed




Our Reserve List Policy includes the following product categories. Domains in these categories are either registry-reserve or otherwise reserved from registration:

1. Occupational and Industry (e.g., nursing.jobs, accounting.jobs, retail.jobs)

2. Geographic (e.g., cityname .jobs, regionname .jobs, zipcode .jobs)

3. ICANN-reserved (e.g., country .jobs, icann.jobs, iana.jobs)

4. Other Generics (e.g., recruit.jobs, blow.jobs)

Names reserved into any of the above categories are not available for registration in the companyname.jobs category


OMG blow.jobs? LOL :rofl: no better examples to be written in a registry website?!

How about

no.jobs
plenty.jobs
needmore.jobs


the options are endless


:)

If they lifted the restrictions, I can just see the most active forum on the net at

wehateour.jobs

Of course it would be blocked from every corp. network on the planet within days. Seriously though. It seems like such a low market tld. There has to be others they could have been working on before this.