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Dot-Jobs Expansion Worries Job-Site Operators

  • Aug 19, 2010 10:49 AM PST
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Sarah E. Needleman reporting in the WSJ: "So far limited to only employers' names, as in Disney.jobs or Whirlpool.jobs, the dot-jobs Internet domain will begin accepting applications next month for generic names like hospitality.jobs and virginia.jobs. But the mostly small businesses that run job sites ending in dot-com say they worry how the development will affect their already crowded and distressed sector of the economy."

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Is anyone surprised? John Levine  –  Aug 21, 2010 8:15 AM PST

This is the same race to the bottom we've seen in .AERO, .TRAVEL, and other sTLDs that nobody really wanted in the first place.

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