The .cars top-level domain has 296 domains live in the DNS root zone as of 2026-10-27 · operated by XYZ.COM LLC on the CentralNic backend · general availability began 2016-01-21.

.cars

New GenericIn GA
Registry
XYZ.COM LLC
Technical Operator
CentralNic
Delegated
2015-05-02
General availability
2016-01-21
Domains live today
296
~0.0% active web presence
Registered domains (official)
346
as of 2026-06· +50 vs live

Domain growth · last 129 days

2026-06-11 → 2026-10-27

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Growth momentum

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Momentum
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Daily net change (adds minus drops), smoothed into 7- and 30-day moving averages. When the 7-day line crosses above the 30-day, growth is accelerating; below, it's slowing. Zero line separates growth from contraction.

Apex label profile

Not yet computed for .cars. Profiles are built per TLD on the daily ingest runner.

Launch phases

Source: ICANN
  1. Sunrise· Start Date Sunrise
    Dec 09, 2015 → Jan 12, 2016
    closed
  2. Trademark Claims
    Jan 20, 2016 → Apr 19, 2016
    closed
  3. Limited Registration· Early Access Period
    Jan 12, 2016 → Jan 20, 2016
    closed
  4. General Availability(estimated)
    Jan 21, 2016 → onwards
    live
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