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Dozens of job sites have stuck the boot into plans to effectively create tens of thousands of new employment boards under the .jobs internet top-level domain. Employ Media, the company which manages the .jobs registry, has applied to ICANN to allow it to flog thousands of .jobs domain names to selected partners, leaving …

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  1. lglethal Silver badge
    FAIL

    Hadnt heard of it, dont care...

    Sorry but when im looking for a job, i'll go directly to the company im interested or to a reputable job board. Im not interested in this sort of bollocks...

    Fail icon because thats what ICANN, Employ Media and .jobs deserve...

  2. Number6

    I'm surprised...

    That Apple haven't yet demanded control of the TLD.

  3. rpjs
    Coat

    Have Apple...

    ...pre-registered steve.jobs?

  4. Martyns
    Happy

    Can I get Steve.Jobs?

    I want to start my own TLD business. A true internet cash machine.

  5. Alister
    Jobs Horns

    Speaking of land grabs...

    How come a certain gentleman in Cupertino hasn't grabbed the whole tld for himself?

  6. Robin

    Wolf?

    Well, IT job people never listen to me so why should I listen to them?

    "I've found the perfect role for you... 10k less than you said, 100 miles further than you said, with a completely different skill set."

  7. Paul Williams

    Cool

    Im planning on setting up a company named 'Steve'. It will be AWESOME.

  8. Stuart Elliott
    Jobs Horns

    Damn

    Damn it.. both steve.jobs and blow.jobs have both gone.

  9. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    Why would BT be interested???

    I can't see why BT would be interested, I don't think they've recruited anyone for a few years.

    Check their current vacancy page. Don't select any options, (so you should be searching for everything) and press Search and you get 9 jobs. 2 in India and 3 each in Hungaria/Holland (1 in Dublin).

    Out of the ca. 430,000 employees that Wikipedia estimates BT has, 9 job vacancies seems fairly insignificant, you think they could resource those people out of existing staff or the "transition centre" which had around a thousand members last time I heard.

    1. qwertyuiop
      FAIL

      Excuse me but...

      ...where is Hungaria?

  10. Michael Philbey 1
    Happy

    Hand or Blow

    Porn Domains anyone???

  11. Lottie
    Joke

    I forsee problems for blackberry testers

    www.rim.jobs

  12. John I'm only dancing
    Joke

    Most popular site would have to be....

    ........ sh*t.jobs

    1. Chris Harrison

      another one bites the dust

      big.jobs gone too....

  13. Anonymous Coward
    Go

    Or for the woodwind section.

    Blow.Jobs, and Hand.Jobs for the strings.

  14. LinkOfHyrule

    LMAO

    I didn't bother to read than more the first sentences of this story for I started to piss myself laughing just KNOWING what the comments to this story would be - I'm immature like that!

  15. Graham Marsden
    Coat

    How about...

    ... mc.jobs

    stuffyour.jobs

    amonkeycoulddothese.jobs

  16. LinkOfHyrule

    I've got it!

    Now that the Tories are in power (sort of) again, how about: gisa.job

  17. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    Colonials only....?

    DirectEmployers Association is a US organistion.....

    The Association makes no claims that the Content is appropriate or may be downloaded outside of the United States. Access to the Content may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries, and such persons have no right to access or use the Association’s website. If you access JobCentral from outside of the United States, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction. These Terms are governed by the internal substantive laws of the State of Indiana, without respect to its conflict of laws principles. Jurisdiction for any claims arising under these Terms shall lie exclusively with the State or Federal courts in the State of Indiana

    So this sweetheart deal looks like a US proposition only

    Does that mean we should now expect Steve.UK.Jobs Steve.RO.Jobs BT.UK.Jobs Hacker.CN.Jobs etc or even better Steve.Jobs.UK and BT.Jobs.UK and all the other nonsense that follows from americans deciding that their little colony is the whole world and they can ignore everyone else?

    Non-american jobs sites now in hock to a US corp?

  18. -tim
    Alert

    What TLD?

    Since all traffic from these new TLDs is scams and spam, I just block them all in my little corporate world and they simply do not exist. The one and only legit site that anyone has complained about had a foobar.info and they had registered foobarinfo.com because they had run into lots of groups like mine that had banned .info.

  19. Wallyb132
    Troll

    well..

    rim.jobs is already taken, however it unceremoniously redirects to rim.com/careers... i tell you, these people have no sense of humor...

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