.jobs TLD audit hub
Sponsored TLD originally restricted to legitimate hiring sites.
The .jobs TLD launched in 2005 as a sponsored TLD with a verification model intended to limit registration to legitimate employer hiring sites — typically of the form companyname.jobs. Sponsored by Employ Media, the registry verified that registrants were established employers and that the .jobs sites pointed at real career portals. The original policy was loosened over time and adoption has been mixed. There are tens of thousands of active registrations, but the namespace never reached the scale projected at launch because most employers continued to use careers.companyname.com or workpages on their main domain instead. The namespace supports DNSSEC. SEO has no special handling for .jobs. We see .jobs sites occasionally in audits and the most common finding is canonicalization issues — the .jobs site duplicates content from the main employer site without proper canonical tags, splitting link equity unnecessarily.