When making the decision to implement that Schema did you look into  this one too: http://schema.org/Offer. ?

And if so, why did you choose discount instead of offer?

Thank you

Our clients use the link shortener of our service software to share their job offers. Sometime the job baords they post to do not allow hyperlink and thus post the url as text only.

Do these url texts offer any benfits in terms of SEO?

Here is a good article about htat topic

http://moz.com/ugc/an-seos-guide-to-acquiring-new-gtlds

You might try searching for gtlds on Google too.

This is what Matt Cutts had to say

"Google has a lot of experience in returning relevant web pages, regardless of the top-level domain (TLD). Google will attempt to rank new TLDs appropriately, but I don't expect a new TLD to get any kind of initial preference over .com, and I wouldn't bet on that happening in the long-term either. If you want to register an entirely new TLD for other reasons, that's your choice, but you shouldn't register a TLD in the mistaken belief that you'll get some sort of boost in search engine rankings."

Here is an additional article about it:

https://www.tsohost.com/blog/how-do-new-gtlds-affect-seo

*edited for additional link