Tag Archives: cars

Wed 13th January 2016
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
.Auto .Car, .Cars Get 1st day Registrations during $60K Per Domain - The 1st day of the Early Access Program (EAP) opened up yesterday for the new gTLD’s .Auto, .Car and .Cars with day 1 prices set at $59,049.99 for each domain name at Godaddy and there appears to have been some takers at that price. NEXTEV USA, Inc registered the domain names on January 12th: nextev.car we.car NEXTEV USA seems to be the US operations of a Planned Chinese car manufacture who is looking to produce cars to compete with Telsa. NextEV intends to begin with an electric supercar, the ... read more ...
Wed 11th November 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
First .Auto Domain: Kain Automotive Switches From KainAutomotive.Com To Kain.Auto - Kain Automotive has changed their domain name from KainAutomotive.com to the new gTLD Kain.Auto becoming one of the first registrants of the new gTLD .auto. The domain name KainAutomotive.com is now being forwarded to the new gTLD Kain.Auto The domain name Kain.auto was created on November 3. According to their site Kain Automotive was Established in 2003 by “David Kain as a way to assist Automotive Dealers and Automotive Manufacturers with developing effective and progressive Internet Sales Operations David ... read more ...
Thu 13th August 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Autobytel Buys Dealix, Owner Of UsedCars.com In $25 Million Deal - Publicly traded Autobytel Inc. (Nasdaq: ABTL) has acquired Dealix, owner of UsedCars.com for $25 Million in an all cash deal. The registrant for the domain name UsedCars.com was CDK Global, LLC and they are a wholly-owned subsidiaries of Dealix. The transaction took place May 21, 2015 according to a press release by Autobytel. Autobytel is no stranger to premium generic domain names as they also own Car.com. From the press release: Dealix provides new and used car leads to dealerships, dealer groups, ... read more ...
Wed 9th October 2013
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Uh-oh: ICANN will be forced to act after opposing .cars decisions - A conflicting opinion over .cars leads to an interesting contention set problem. A panelist for a string confusion objection brought by Google against DERcars, LLC over the top level domain name .cars has ruled in favor of Google. By ruling in favor of Google, that means DERcars’ application for .cars will be put into a contention set with Google’s application for .car. This creates a big problem. You see, DERcars’ application isn’t the only one for .cars. ... read more ...