- There are 60 new gTLDs dedicated to the automotive industry.
- Lots of Trademarks have applied for their own string and major luxury car manufacturers have created their .BRAND new gTLD:
- Lamborghini;
- Bentley;
- Jaguar;
- Bugatti;
- Lexus;
- Maserati;
- Ferrari.
- Surprisingly, some Trademarks are missing: Porsche, Tesla, Mercedez-Benz, Peugeot, and Renault (and probably a few others) but I would not be surprise that they submit their .BRAND new gTLD application in the future.
- 38 "known" car Trademarks have applied for their .BRAND
- 5 of Car Trademarks new gTLD applications were withdrawn.
- After 6 years in limbo, it is still unknown if the .RAM new gTLD will ever see the day.
- Some Car trademarks register a lot of domain names:
- AUDI created 1,386 domain names ending in ".audi" for its personal use;
- MINI created 653;
- SEAT created 651;
- LAMBORGHINI created 200;
- And BMW created 117 domain names.
- Tires: 1,144 domain names ending in ".tires" have been created!
- Lots of domain names from automotive businesses are being registered at the moment in the .BEST domain name extension (they cost less than $10 per year until January 2019 at some accredited registrars).
- Unless I missed something, Volkswagen is the only Trademark to have created an IDN: it's the .大众汽车 and its stands for Volkswagen in Chinese.
- Update: there seems to be a limited interest in generic TLDs offering a plural AND a singular version of the extension:
- .AUTO (423 domain name registrations in total) and .AUTOS new gTLDs (62 registrations);
- .CAR (362 registrations) and .CARS (321 registrations) new gTLDs.
- The new gTLD with the highest number of domain name registered is one dedicated to selling domains to the general public: the .TAXI new gTLD and it has 6,263 domain names created.
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