If you could afford a domain name for your job board that contained a single dictionary word, your category keyword or some related keyword, would you do it? These folks did:

• care.com
• caterer.com
• climber.com
• experience.com
• idealist.org

Judging by compete.com traffic graphs, it's a relatively high flying group...

Know of any others?

Sedo has sold Resumes.com for $400,000 which makes it one of the 20 highest sales reported so far in 2009.

I started writing about domains in 2006 and since then the value of the right domain to your business has only grown. There is a window of opportunity open now that comes along once in a blue moon. If you came out of this recession with nothing other than a new category-killer domain, over the long run that could make up for all the pain and suffering of the last year.

Why is the .US country code domain extension so undeveloped in comparison with other country's cc tlds? Until recently I assumed it was a natural bias resulting from America being the pioneer in .com.  But, I've learned that Google's search algorithms also cripple the .us domain.  

Some say the domain name isn't important...  just look at Google with its gibberish name! In my experience, the name is important. So, if you are starting a job board, I think this list of job board domain types will be useful for you. 

These are all the prefixes, postfixes and conjunctions I came across in my research for the top 100 niche boards report. The '_' in this list represents the name of the niche or profession as in "marketing" or "marketers".

Doug Geinzer just announced the sale of his job board (and second recruiting business) RecruitingNevada.com. Here’s Doug’s bio:

Doug Geinzer has been in the recruiting business since 1989. Prior to Recruiting Nevada, he owned a media group, which included the Las Vegas Employment Guide; Las Vegas Career Fairs, Las Vegas’ largest career fair company; Las Vegas Job Guide; and Diversity2000 – the first diversity recruiting magazine in the United states, which was distributed to every college campus in the country. Geinzer sold the media group to Cox and Landmark Communications in 1999 and then directed his focus to Classified USA! – Nevada’s largest recruitment advertising agency, which he co-owned with Ted Stepien.

Matt Cutts at Domain Roundtable talks about exact match domains as reported by randfish:

Owning a keyword match domain name is going to carry some weight in Google for the foreseeable future. It is something they want to reward.

And more detailed notes on Matt's speech and Q&A session from Johnon.com:

An SEO writes about domains:

Master of My Domaining: 10 Things I’ve Learned About Domaining Since I Jumped Into The Pool

September 11th, 2007

It’s been a little over nine months since I started the SEO - Domainer Lovefest (if you think you preceded me, you can take credit for it on your own blog!) and John Andrews left me a comment the other day asking for a SITREP on my escapades. The following is a brain dump of what I’ve learned over the last year or so of taking domaining seriously.

This was originally a post about how Google inadvertently penalizes some of the highest quality domain traffic as a side effect of fighting click-fraud and poor quality traffic.  I experienced a textbook example.  Over time, I believe this incentive structure will cause new specialized entities that sell advertising directly to end users to flourish -- this is a deeply interesting phenomenon. 

Aaron Wall discusses the interaction between domain names and seo in a post titled "Synergy Between Domain Names & Keyword Based Search Engine Optimization Strategies".  He thinks the exact match domain bonus can't last.  His post is full of important stuff and these are the key points: