# Sources - Updates To Companies

### How We Handle Company Changes, Rebrands, and Acquisitions

JobFront tracks thousands of companies. Companies rename themselves, get acquired, change domains, and sometimes shut down entirely. 

Here's  what our system does in each case — so you always know where your data went and why.

| What happened                                  | Does the job board URL change? | What we do                                                                  | Relationship tracked |
| ---------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------- |
| Minor domain shift (e.g. `.io → .com`)         | No                             | Update domain only — all job history preserved                              | —                    |
| Full rebrand (same company, new name/logo)     | No                             | Update name and description; clear logo and industry tags for re-enrichment | —                    |
| Acquisition — brand kept, job board unchanged  | No                             | Update name/description if needed                                           | `acquired-by`        |
| Acquisition — absorbed into acquirer's board   | Yes                            | Retire old source; check for existing acquirer record; create if not found  | `acquired-by`        |
| Domain sold to an unrelated new company        | Yes                            | Retire old source; flag for manual review                                   | —                    |
| Domain parked or for sale (expired/lapsed)     | —                              | Flag for manual review                                                      | —                    |
| Same company operating two separate job boards | —                              | Flag for manual review; our team decides the canonical record               | `same-as`            |
| Spinoff or new product with its own job board  | —                              | Check for existing record; create new source if not found                   | `subsidiary-of`      |

**Note:**

* **Every automated field change is logged.** When our system updates a name, domain, or description, a changelog entry is written so we can trace exactly what changed and when.


---

# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.jobfront.io/jobs-data-platform/sources-updates-to-companies.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.