.jobs Domain
The Original Employment Domain
Register your .jobs domain from just £99.99/yr. Free DNS management, email forwarding, and 10GB mailbox included with every domain.
This domain has registration restrictions
The .jobs domain is restricted to human-resources professionals and organisations in the recruitment industry. The registry may reject your registration if you do not meet its eligibility rules. Read the full eligibility rules.
What is a .jobs domain?
The .jobs domain is one of the most established specialist extensions for the recruitment industry. It provides a clear and trusted destination for job seekers and employers alike.
Who should register .jobs?
Job boards, recruitment platforms, staffing agencies, and corporate HR teams.
Why choose .jobs?
- Established and widely recognised
- Trusted by job seekers
- Strong employer branding
- Clear purpose in the address
Who runs .jobs, and since when
Registry data from the .jobs delegation record held by IANA, which maintains the internet's root zone. Eligibility comes from the registry's own policy, and the prices are ours.
- Extension type
- Sponsored (sTLD)
- Registry operator
- Employ Media LLC
- The organisation that runs the extension
- In the root zone since
- 2005
- Delegated 8 September 2005
- Who can register
- Restricted to employers and HR professionals, with documents checked before registration
- Checked against the registry's own policy
- Our price
- £99.99 a year
- Ex VAT. Renews at the same price
Why .jobs is sponsored, restricted and expensive
Everything else on this list arrived in the 2013 and 2014 expansion. This one was delegated on 8 September 2005 and is the only sponsored extension among them, which is why it behaves so differently. A sponsored top-level domain has a charter and a policy delegate, and here the charter serves the international human resource management community with the Society for Human Resource Management acting as sponsor. Employ Media runs the registry; the technical operation sits with Nominet, whose Oxford address appears on the IANA record.
The practical consequence is paperwork. The registry agreement requires every applicant to submit a qualification document proving employer status before a registration is allowed, and company-name registrations are limited to an employer's legal name or a name it is commonly known by. Speculative and lookalike applications are rejected at that stage rather than after the money changes hands.
Later policy opened up names that are not company names, through a phased allocation programme running by request for proposals, then auction, then first-come first-served release. That is why dictionary words and job titles exist alongside employer brands. Registry material lists amazon.jobs, pearson.jobs, orange.jobs and indeed.jobs among live employer sites, and all of them resolve.
Who is allowed to register .jobs?
Only employers and people working in human resource management may register a .jobs name, and the registry checks a qualification document before the registration is allowed to proceed.
- Who the charter covers
- The extension exists to serve the international human resource management community. Members of the sponsor qualify, as do people engaged in HR management practice who hold salaried-level HR experience, are certified by the Human Resource Certification Institute, or support the sponsor's code of ethical and professional standards.
- Proof of employer status
- Every applicant has to submit a qualification document, generally proof that the organisation is an employer, and the registry reviews it for approval before allowing the registration rather than afterwards. Budget time for this: it is not an instant checkout the way an open extension is.
- Which names you may have
- A company-name registration is limited to the employer's legal name or a name or abbreviation it is commonly known by. Applications for names the applicant has no claim to are rejected as overreaching. Names that are not company names, such as occupations and some geographic terms, were released separately through a phased allocation programme.
- Transfers between owners
- Selling or transferring a .jobs to a different registrant is not a paperwork-free change. The incoming registrant has to submit their own application and qualification document and have it approved before the transfer completes. Moving the same domain between registrars does not require it.
- If you do not qualify
- An application submitted without a qualified applicant is rejected outright, and a registration obtained on a qualification document that turns out to be fraudulent may be deleted after the fact. In serious cases of abusive or fraudulent registration or use, the registry reserves the right to suspend or delete the domain.
Rules taken from the .jobs registry agreement, Specification 12. Registry policy can change, so check before you buy if the answer matters to you.
Not sure whether you qualify? Ask us before you order and we will check the registry rules with you. We would rather answer the question than take an order the registry will refuse.
Is .jobs the right choice for you?
We would rather sell you the right extension once than the wrong one twice.
.jobs works well if
- You are a recognisable employer running your own careers operation, and you want a candidate-facing address that is unmistakably yours.
- Job scams using lookalike domains are a live concern for your brand, and an extension with a vetting step in front of it narrows the field.
- You already advertise a careers site heavily enough that teaching candidates a new address is realistic rather than wishful.
Look elsewhere if
- You are a small agency or a single recruiter. This costs many times a .co.uk every year, and the transfer fee is higher still.
- You want it live this afternoon. A qualification document has to be reviewed and approved before the registration is allowed to go through.
- A subdomain would do. careers.yourfirm.co.uk costs nothing, keeps every link and every ranking on the domain you already own, and no candidate finds it odd.
Most UK recruiters are better served by a careers subdomain on the .co.uk they already hold. See .co.uk pricing.
.jobs vs .co.uk: which should you register?
The gap here is wider than any other pair on this site. A .co.uk is cheap, instant, open to anyone, and carries a UK signal in search. A .jobs is expensive, gated behind a document review, and carries no geographic signal at all. On price and speed alone the .co.uk wins for most British businesses without an argument.
What the .jobs buys is the thing the .co.uk cannot: an ending nobody can register casually. When your problem is candidates being defrauded by convincing lookalike career sites, an extension with a vetting step and a company-name rule is a meaningful narrowing of the field. When your problem is simply that you would like a careers page, it is an expensive way of getting one, and careers.yourfirm.co.uk keeps the authority on the domain you already own.
.jobs domain questions, answered
What people ask us before registering a .jobs domain.
Can't find what you're looking for?
Ask us directlyEmployers and people working in human resource management. The charter names members of the sponsor and people engaged in HR practice, including those with salaried HR management experience or Human Resource Certification Institute certification. Beyond that, every applicant has to submit a qualification document proving employer status, which the registry reviews before it allows the registration. A private individual or a business with no employer status behind it will not clear that step, and the application is rejected rather than pending.
Because the registry treats an incoming registrant as a fresh applicant. Where most extensions let a transfer carry a year of registration for a standard fee, moving a .jobs to a new owner means submitting a new application and a new qualification document for approval. The vetting is the expensive part and it does not disappear because the domain already exists. It is worth budgeting for at renewal time, and worth remembering if you ever plan to sell the name.
For most UK employers, yes. A subdomain costs nothing extra, goes live in minutes, and keeps every link, every ranking and every scrap of accumulated authority on the domain your customers already know. A separate .jobs starts from zero on all three and has to be advertised into people's heads. The case for the .jobs is brand protection and candidate safety at scale, which is a real problem for large employers and rarely one for a firm hiring a handful of people a year.
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