.careers Domains for Hiring Pages and Job Boards
.careers was recorded in the root zone on 12 December 2013, and the IANA entry names Binky Moon, LLC, part of Identity Digital, as the sponsoring organisation. The plural form describes an organisation's open roles rather than one person's working life, which is why hiring pages, job boards and in-house recruitment teams reach for it most. The nTLDstats page accessed on 11 August 2026 shows 11,799 registrations in the zone.
People mix it up with its singular twin .career, yet the two are separate extensions under separate registries: the singular sits with dotCareer LLC, the plural with Binky Moon. The rule of thumb is short. Gathering vacancies for an organisation reads better in the plural; building your own professional page reads better in the singular. Holding both and pointing one at the other is common practice, and you can try candidates through a domain name search.
.CAREERS Domain at a Glance
- Sponsoring organisation Binky Moon, LLC (Identity Digital)
- Root zone record 12 December 2013
- Eligibility condition No verified restriction
- Registered names 11,799 (nTLDstats, 11 August 2026)
- Singular twin .career — separate extension, run by dotCareer LLC
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .careers domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
Related Domain Extensions
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.careers 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
$49.99 /year -
Transfer
$71.49 /year -
Renewal
$76.99 /year -
Restore
$169.90 -
Late Renewal
$11.12
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Free DNS management
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Domain lock
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Domain forwarding
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Free WHOIS privacy
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.careers Domain Lifecycle
What happens day by day after it expires
Day 0 is the domain's expiry dateIn short: your .careers 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 .careers 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 .careers 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 $11.12 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 .careers 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
.careers Domain Specifications and Registration Rules
Registration conditions, supported features and the registry's own timelines in a single table.
.careers Domain Registration
- Document Requirement No documents are required to register a .careers domain
- Character Length 1 - 63 characters
- Registration Period 1 - 10 years
- Name Server Count 1 - 13 servers
.careers Domain Support
- IDN Support No
- Transfer Support Yes
- Late Renewal Support Yes
Frequently Asked Questions About .careers Domains
The questions people actually ask before registering — answered plainly.
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They are separate extensions under separate registries. The plural is sponsored by Binky Moon, LLC and the singular by dotCareer LLC. Their sizes differ as well: the nTLDstats pages accessed on 11 August 2026 show 11,799 names in the plural zone against 1,558 in the singular one. The meaning follows the same split, since the plural suggests an organisation's open roles and the singular one person's professional path. Compare them on the .career page.
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No published eligibility condition could be verified. The registry asks for no employer proof, chamber registration or agency licence, and where a name is free the ordering flow moves on without an approval step. Running a private employment agency or selling access to candidate data, however, is licensed in many countries. That duty comes from the work you do, and the extension grants no authority to act as an intermediary.
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It pays off in two situations. Where your vacancies live in a separate system from the main site, a short address is easy to say on a poster, in a post and in an interview. Where you advertise in several countries, one roof makes gathering the local pages simpler. For a single-site business posting a few roles a year, a section under the main website is enough and needs less upkeep.
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The brand is the safer pick almost every time. A trade or sector word looks closer to search at first glance, but a hiring site is an extension of the brand, and the thing a candidate has to remember is the company name. If you do want the sector word, place it next to the brand rather than instead of it. Testing several variants at once is quicker through a bulk domain name search.
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No form goes live before the connection is encrypted. An application form carries a name, contact details, an education history and often identity data, and without a certificate those fields cross the network as plain text. The second step is trimming fields, because a first application needs neither an identity number nor a salary expectation. Finish the setup from the SSL certificate page.
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The move runs in three steps: lift the lock, collect the authorisation code, then start the request at the new registrar. Where vacancies and application email run on the same name, avoid timing it during a busy intake period, since an application lost while DNS changes cannot be recovered. Start the process from the domain transfer page.
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