.career Domains: Hiring Pages and Recruitment Sites
.career entered the root zone on 20 March 2014, and the IANA record names dotCareer LLC of Cleveland as the sponsoring organisation; the registry gives general availability as August 2014. The ending speaks straight to employment: careers pages, recruitment sites, advisory practices and job board platforms. According to the nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026, the extension holds 1,558 registrations, which makes the zone small and the choice of roots wide.
The registry states on its own site that no eligibility condition applies: anyone in the world may register an available name. That is the sharpest difference from .jobs, which serves the same field but is a sponsored extension whose registration policies answer to a charter. The decision rule is clean: go to the sponsored side if you want a verified community identity, and stay here if you want an open, quick start. Test candidates with a domain name search.
.CAREER Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation dotCareer LLC (Cleveland, USA)
- Root zone record 20 March 2014
- General availability August 2014 (registry statement)
- Eligibility condition None, according to the registry
- Registered names 1,558 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .career domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.career Domain Prices — No Surprise Fees
Registration, transfer and renewal fees are listed separately. The renewal price can differ from the first-year price, so you see both up front.
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New Registration
$118.00 /year -
Transfer
$118.80 /year -
Renewal
$130.68 /year -
Restore
$484.90 -
Late Renewal
$26.14
Included With Every .career Domain
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Free DNS management
Change A, MX, TXT and CNAME records yourself from the panel — no waiting on anyone when you move a site or mailbox.
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Domain lock
While the lock is on, nobody can move your domain to another registrar without your approval.
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Domain forwarding
Point the domain at your existing site, a campaign page or a social profile — at no extra cost.
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Free WHOIS privacy
Your name, address and phone stay out of public WHOIS records, which cuts down spam and scam calls.
.career Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .career domain is put on Client Hold on its expiry date, so the site and e-mail stop that same day. You can still renew during the first 20 days, but from this point a late renewal fee is added on top of the renewal price. On day 20 the registration is deleted and until day 50 only a paid restore brings it back. Nothing at all can be done in the 5 days that follow, and on day 55 the name is open to anyone. There is exactly one way never to enter this chain: keep auto-renewal on.
Domain Is Available (Available)
A .career address at this stage has not been taken yet, and it goes to whoever registers first. Check the name you have in mind — if it is free, it can be yours within minutes.
Domain Is Active (Active Period)
Once registration is complete, the domain is registered to you for the term you selected. You can renew at any point before it expires to keep it active, or switch on auto-renewal so you never have to watch the date.
Renewal Window (Client Hold)
On its expiry date your .career domain is put on Client Hold: the site and e-mail go down that day, but the registration is still yours. A single renewal within these first 20 days brings everything back exactly as it was — nothing is lost. The only difference is that a $26.14 late renewal fee is now added to the renewal price; renewing before the expiry date avoids that fee entirely.
Redemption Period (Redemption / RGP)
On day 20 the registration is deleted and the 30-day redemption period that ICANN requires of every gTLD registry begins. The name is not released to anyone during this time; only you can take it back, by paying the restore fee, until day 50. That fee is far higher than a renewal — renewing on time is always the cheaper route.
Pending Delete (Pending Delete)
Once the redemption window closes too, the domain enters its final 5 days and there is no way back. Neither renewal nor restore works here; nobody — your registrar included — can return the name to you. The registry uses this window as the last hold before the name goes back into the pool.
Open to Anyone Again (Released)
On day 55 the name .career returns to the pool and anyone can register it. Sought-after names are often gone within seconds, and there is no guaranteed way to get one back. Yet staying out of this timeline is entirely in your hands: leave auto-renewal on and the expiry date will never catch you off guard.
The timeline above is the schedule Atak Domain applies and publishes. The ICANN chart you will find elsewhere shows a renewal window of up to 45 days after expiry; ICANN's policy on expired registrations (section 2.2.1) lets registrars delete an expired domain at any time, provided they disclose their policy in advance. We apply that window as 20 days and publish it here in plain sight. Full text of the policy: ICANN Expired Registration Recovery Policy
.career Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.career Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .career domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.career Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .career Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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No — the registry states on its own site that no restriction applies. Anyone in the world may register an available name, and no employer proof, chamber registration or advisory licence is requested. A job seeker can publish a personal CV page under this address just as readily. Running a private employment agency, on the other hand, is licensed in many countries, and that obligation is independent of the domain.
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The difference is who the ending is open to. This one is unrestricted, and the registry says so plainly, while .jobs is a sponsored extension whose registration policies answer to its charter. If you want to underline a formal human resources identity, the sponsored side sends the stronger signal. If you want to pick a free root and start quickly, this name clears the way.
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It is not required, but it pays off in two situations. First, where a hiring campaign runs apart from the main site, a short memorable address is easy to share inside job adverts. Second, where you advertise across several countries, a separate address makes it simpler to gather the local pages. Advertising in one country at low volume, a section under your main site usually does the job.
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Collecting less comes first. An application form carries a name, contact details, education history and often identity data, and you need none of that at the first step. Decide up front how long the files will be kept and tell the applicant. The encrypted connection is not up for debate: install it from the SSL certificate page.
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Yes — according to the project's registry data, a privacy service is available on this extension. If you are opening a career page in your own name, keeping a home address out of the public lookup is a direct gain. On a corporate recruitment site, showing the company details is usually better for trust. See what a given name returns with a whois search.
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Yes, the extension is transferable. You remove the lock, collect the authorisation code and start the request at the new registrar; the name is expected not to have been registered or transferred in the previous 60 days. Where applications arrive by email, write down your mail records before the move, because a lost application never comes back. Run it from the domain transfer page.
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