A reader tipped me off to a fascinating story about whats going on with the company that owns the .jobs TLD (top level domains). 15 years ago .jobs launched in partnership with SHRM to help employers put their jobs on a .jobs domain. That initiative never caught on so the registry owner Employ Media then…
Now that Indeed.com has taken over the world and turned aggregation into a primary service, other job boards are now entering the fray. First Monster made an announcement a few weeks ago and then Linkedin says they’ll be doing it too. I expect CareerBuilder to follow suit later this year. These recent changes signal a…
Lately I’ve gotten a couple of emails from people who are thinking of registering a .jobs domain to start a job board. My answer is forget about it. Although these domains appear to be available from mainstream registrars, if you register one it will eventually be rejected by the company that manages those TLDs, Employ…
Recently on the Job Boarders blog, this post appeared announcing the launch of laborny.jobs. Its a new site powered by JobCentral and the new dot jobs domain. However they appear to have overhyped its usefulness.