The notion that some company that no one has ever heard of is the only company in the world that can handle doing something simple as setting up a database to hold jobs and then display them on a different domain based on geographical input is ludicrous. You’re talking about a 3 month project here that could be done for < $50,000. Why is this blown out of proportion? If you're trying to rationalize backdoor dealings that eliminate competition by claiming to be the only company capable of handling a project that most SME companies could take with no problem, you're really reaching for straws.

This whole thing is shady and ICANN should be ashamed of themselves for allowing it to happen.

ICANN is the one that legitimized .jobs with no intention of monitoring or enforcing the agreements… and in light of the new tlds coming, it’s clear they would have liked to approve .jobs without any limitations in the first place.

It may be counter intuitive to some, but as a job board owner I don’t really care about yet another network of cookie cutter sites popping up. There are number of them out there already and the impact they have on our business is negligible. Collectively they attract some job seeker traffic and a few postings here and there, but individually they have no impact whatsoever in a world with 100,000 job boards already.

I laughed when I read this as it reminded me of all the start-and-stop projects, blogs, websites, twitter accounts – all the stuff related to social media that gets started these days in heated rushes and then abandoned as the ardor cools and the next shiny object catches their attention. Know what I mean?

Starting something MEANS NOTHING if you can’t keep at it and this is the fatal flaw in many if not most of these start and stop “good ideas”. Recruiting Animal is having a “Wherever In the World Did They Go?” show at the end of the year to highlight some of these phenomena. I hope you watch for it. I am.

(By the way, I wish DirectEmployers the BEST of luck. I just ask you keep showin’ us what you got.)

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jobcentral and .jobs seem to have done a nice job of aligning their interests. it will be interesting to see if it makes enough sense to the other constituencies and, if it does, whether it can hold over a sustained period of time.

I’m also not sure if employers have any incentive to “promote” these sites since they are already busy trying to promote their own career pages. This idea simply seems to be a experiment to get search engine traffic. But if no one links to these sites, search traffic will be hard to come by. And as any job board owner knows you have to market yourself to get traffic.

The consensus of the job board industry lately is that there are “too many” sites so this deal doesn’t seem to help that perception.

However it would have been nice if other job board owners were invited to the party.