Former executive vice president and treasurer of Capital One Financial Corporation and former president of Ford Motor Credit Company named to board of new direct-to-consumer auto loan platform

Irvine, CA –January 25, 2016 -- SpringboardAuto.com, a new direct-to-consumer auto loan platform that completely reinvents the auto lending experience, today announced that Steve Linehan and John Noone have joined its Board of Directors. Linehan is a former EVP and treasurer of Capital One Finance Corporation and Noone is a former president of Ford Motor Credit Company.

“Our mission is to bring significant and positive change to the auto loan space.  The insight and expertise Steve and John bring from their decades as leaders in highly respected finance companies will be invaluable as we focus on improving the auto finance process for the consumer of today and tomorrow,” said SpringboardAuto.com CEO Jim Landy.

SpringboardAuto.com is creating a trusted brand enabling consumers to finance the purchase of a new or used car online from a dealer or a private party, as well as reducing their existing monthly payment through refinancing. 

Linehan recently retired from Capital One Financial Corporation, a $300 billion diversified financial services company, where he served as EVP and Treasurer for twelve years. He joined Capital One in 1997 after eight years with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.  

Noone served for 40 years at Ford Motor Credit Company where he covered virtually every aspect of automotive financial services on a global basis, including serving as President of Ford Motor Credit 2006-2012. Noone is also a past Chairman of the American Financial Services Association (AFSA) and currently is the principal and founder of Noone Consulting Group, LLC.

About SpringboardAuto.com

SpringboardAuto.com is a financial technology company whose direct-to-consumer auto loan platform puts the consumer in the center of the loan process. Founded by industry veterans, and staffed with an experienced team of automotive finance experts and technologists, SpringboardAuto.com facilitates and educates consumers during the loan process, offering faster decisions, transparency, personalized loan terms and support resulting in a better consumer experience and outcome. SpringboardAuto.com, consumers are in control as they refinance auto loans or finance and purchase new or used vehicles directly online or via their smartphone. Uniquely leveraging data and analytics, SpringboardAuto.com empowers consumers, while offering benefits to auto dealers, credit unions and other lenders. 

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Boulder, CO – January 25, 2016-- Confident Financial Solutions, (CFS) a consumer finance company that offers auto repair financing to service centers and their customers, today announced the launch of LIFT.myCFSapp.com, a resource portal for strategic partner service centers to help further boost revenue through its auto repair finance program. 

The site includes Learning (training, education, learning and compliance); Insight (best practices, blog, CFS news and industry news); Forums (video testimonials, LIFT Performance Forum, webinars, FAQs); and Tools (marketing tools, downloads, support and digital assets).  LIFT will serve as a hub of information and resources to service centers that offer CFS’ auto repair finance program.  The easy-to-navigate website is not only useful to prospective and newly-registered strategic partner service centers during the on-boarding period, but is also a platform for established stores that introduce new employees to CFS’ innovative solutions.

“We’re always looking for ways to assist our strategic partners,” noted Sean Reyes, Vice President of Marketing for CFS.  “We want working with CFS to be easy for service personnel.  That means no login credentials necessary, thorough content, compelling video, useful tools and other resources that help strategic partners offer our solutions.  It’s all about success on demand – that’s what the LIFT site is all about.”

CFS provides a favorable alternative to credit card financing, resulting in increased credit approvals and immediate access to capital. Customers apply online via a smart phone, tablet or computer and receive a credit decision in less than five minutes. Service centers get paid in 24-48 hours. With CFS, strategic partner service centers further increase activity on the service drive, increase revenue and enhance overall customer retention.

According to John Dunning, CEO of CFS, statistics on the credit crunch suggest that consumers are having a much more difficult time gaining access to much-needed capital and that’s where CFS comes in and why the site was launched as a new resource, “CFS is a financial technology company providing on-the-spot automotive repair financing to customers in need. We create a new customer channel for our service center affiliates by helping them find and retain customers.  The CFS business model is based on providing our products through a simple, convenient portal introduced to customers by service center personnel. We like to provide our strategic partners with as many resources as we can to help drive their success, hence the launch of the new LIFT site,” said Dunning.

While program results vary from store to store, many of CFS strategic partner service centers see an average 20 percent increase in monthly revenues; an increase in ROs and decrease in Service Declines; and bigger ticket ROs as customers can now get ALL the repairs done including transmissions, tires, collision, insurance deductible and more. In addition, the program provides affordable payments based on simple interest rather than compounding interest; almost 50 percent customer approval rate; loan approvals as low as mid-500 credit scores; loan terms available for 12-36 months; and increased customer retention.

“Getting off the blocks with a new program is critical, especially when it comes to something as important as consumer financing. Before you jump on the CFS bandwagon, we’ll train your team, either in person, or on the Internet -- it’s not complex and can be completed in no time,” Dunning stated. “And, as it’s tough to remember all the details, we launched the LIFT website. Along with our support team, it’s there to help our affiliates if they should ever get stuck and need a little help – to give them the resources they need to be successful.  The portal also provides a wide breadth of information and marketing assets.  We’re demonstrating our commitment to the success of our affiliate service centers.  It’s all about providing resources on demand for those who we count on to introduce CFS to the consumer.”

For more information visit: LIFT.myCFSapp.com, or call 855.808.5861

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About Confident Financial Solutions:

Confident Financial Solutions is a consumer finance company that offers auto repair financing to service centers and their customers. Its primary goal is to provide a favorable alternative to credit card financing, resulting in increased credit approvals and immediate access to capital. Customers apply online via a smart phone, tablet or computer and receive an instant credit decision. With CFS, strategic partner service centers increase activity on the service drive, increase revenue at the service center and enhance overall customer retention. Based in Boulder, Colorado, CFS is the consumer’s choice for auto repair loans.

Santa Monica, CA -- January 20, 2016 – Cars Registry, a joint venture between XYZ and Uniregistry, today announced public availability of its domains ending in .Cars, .Car, and .Auto. Dealerships, manufacturers, and all other businesses can now register auto-specific domains on a first-come, first-served basis.

The global launch of .Cars, .Car, and .Auto follows a successful Early Access Period, where domains like V.Auto, AppleFord.Cars, Cox.Auto, and Exotic.Cars were registered. Manufacturer registrations include Lamborghini.Cars, Infiniti.Cars, Genesis.Auto, and Toyota.Auto. Domains like Michelin.Auto, BFGoodrich.Auto, and StateFarm.Cars were also secured by automotive businesses. Industry newcomers, including Apple.Car, GoogleX.Cars, and Alibaba.Auto, have also registered.

Auto-specific domain names give businesses an opportunity to establish themselves as industry leaders by securing short, geographic, and keyword domains like 1.Car, LA.Auto, and Hybrid.Cars for a standard fee.

“Businesses can now truly expand their reach. A Florida-based dealer group could dominate its market by showcasing its inventory on web addresses like Orlando.Cars, FL.Car, JAX.Cars, and Miami.Auto,” said Mike Ambrose, COO of Cars Registry.

Several automotive businesses have already begun using the new domains to stand out from their competition. Scholfield launched its new portal on Wichita.Cars, while STL Motorcars has rebranded to STL.Cars. STL.Cars is already a top search result for terms like “St Louis Bentley” and “STL exotics.”

Businesses registering a .Cars, .Car, or .Auto domain are also eligible to have their website migrated to their new domain at no cost: “The transition from STLMotorcars.com to STL.Cars by the Cars Registry white-glove team was extremely simple, and enabled us to maintain our search engine ranking, SEO, and emails in the process,” said dealership principal Graham Hill.

To register .Cars, .Car, and .Auto domains, visit www.Go.Cars or authorized retailers like GoDaddy.Cars, NetworkSolutions.Cars, Uniregistry.Cars, and Name.com.

About Cars Registry Limited

Cars Registry Limited is the registry operator for .Cars, .Car, and .Auto. Founded in 2015 by domain industry leaders XYZ and Uniregistry, the company provides Internet naming options for the automotive industry.

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Timonium, MD – January 18th, 2016-- Helion Automotive Technologies, a leading provider of information technology (IT) solutions, is now offering the Cisco® Unified Communications Platform (UCP) for auto dealers, an integrated phone and communications system designed to improve the customer experience and streamline phone processes. Cisco's UCP helps dealerships greatly reduce incidents of lost or dropped calls, placing customers on hold and routing customers to voice mails, which can lead to lost leads and sales.

"Dealerships have their own special needs when it comes to phone systems due to the hectic nature of the business, with employees often away from desks, engaged with other customers, in meetings and the physical distance between departments," said Erik Nachbahr, President of Helion Automotive Technologies. "Even dealerships with scrupulous processes and great personnel experience problems with their phone systems on a daily basis."

Cisco's UCP by Helion has several features that address dealerships' needs, including:

Jabber, a collaboration tool that enables instant communication between employees, is integrated with Microsoft's Active Directory, Exchange and Office. Jabber works across all devices, from mobile phones to PCs and tablets. Similar to an instant messaging tool, it allows personnel to send notifications, ask questions or check availability of employees, even if that employee is away from their desk or offsite.

"There's nothing more annoying to customers than being placed on hold or routed to voice mail when all they have is a very simple question they want answered," said Nachbahr. "Jabber helps to eliminate phone tag and greatly increases customer satisfaction."

For example, when a customer calls to speak with their service advisor and that advisor is busy, typically the customer would have to leave a voice mail and when the advisor is free the call is returned, sometimes resulting in another voice mail. With Jabber, the receptionist can simply message the advisor with "Mrs. Smith is on the phone, is her car ready?" If the advisor is with another customer and using a tablet, the message will pop up and he can simply respond with "ready in one hour," and that communication gets relayed back to the customer with no ensuing phone tag.

Cisco's UCP also features Single-Reach Number, allowing dealers to route all phone calls to employees regardless of whether they are on their desk phone or cell phones. This makes employees more reachable and also helps to protect customer data.

Currently most dealership employees have two phone numbers: their direct line based on their extension and their personal cell phone. Sometimes problems occur when dealership employees give cell numbers to customers or put them on a business card. Using personal cell numbers makes it easy for employees to obtain and store customer contact information. When employees go to work for competing dealerships, this increases the risk of customers being contacted and lured to purchase at competitive dealerships.

Using single-reach solves this problem and even when employees return customer calls using their cell phones, the single-reach number is displayed on the customer's phone, so the customer never has the employee's personal cell phone number.

Single-reach numbers also increase customer satisfaction because calls are more likely to be answered, as both the desk phone and cell phone of an employee rings when a call comes in. A mobility feature allows employees to easily switch calls from their desk phone to their cell phone and back again, with no interruption to the phone call. This means that if a customer calls to ask about a piece of inventory, a salesperson can simply click a button to transfer the call to a cell phone and walk out onto the lot.

Cisco's UCP by Helion offers advanced Call Flow capabilities, greatly reducing incidents of lost and dropped calls. Helion's IT consultants have years of retail automotive experience including mapping call flows specific to a dealership's needs and processes.

A call flow determines how calls get routed and includes rules such as how many times a person's phone rings, whether calls get routed back to the receptionist or into voice mail, what happens to calls after hours and more.

"A call flow that works for an insurance company or a manufacturing facility won't work in a dealership," said Nachbahr. "Our data from hundreds of dealerships gives us the knowledge and ability to create call flows for dealers that prevent customers from being sent into never-never land."

Cisco's UCP by Helion comes with responsive technical support and the proven reliability offered by industry-leading vendors.

"Cisco is the phone that the president answers and the military uses," said Nachbahr. "No other system offers the security, ease of use and advanced technology that Cisco offers."

For more information, contact Helion at 443-541-1500 or visit www.heliontechnologies.com.

About Helion Automotive Technologies

Helion...Putting Your Dealership in the FAST LANE! Helion Automotive Technologies is a leading IT solutions provider, providing auto dealers with faster, more efficient networks and secure data protection. From managed services to IT assistance and service desk help, Helion offers both short-term IT fixes and long-term planning so dealers can focus on what matters most: selling more cars. Helion has specialized in IT for more than ten years and works with 650+ auto dealers nationwide. Dealers can request a free assessment of their IT needs at www.heliontechnologies.com.

40% of dealers report start-to-finish transaction time of 3 hours or more in eLEND Solutions™ survey; lack of vendor integration and data exchange seen as key obstacle to faster process by majority of dealership respondents

Foothill Ranch, CA – January 13, 2016 – A new survey of dealerships from eLEND Solutions™ shows that dealers continue to struggle with shortening the lengthy, often three-hour plus, car-buying process, down to two hours or less, which is what 85% think is ideal. In fact, the survey results show the situation has not improved one iota since eLEND ran a similar survey in 2014 and, yet, the number of dealers who think a less than 2-hour sales process is ideal increased by 25%. This correlates with an Autotrader.com survey that showed that buyer satisfaction begins to decline after 90 minutes at the dealership.

No improvement in length of transaction time for 2 in 5 dealers:

The survey asked dealers what impact vendor integration (or lack of it) was having at their dealerships. While dealers overwhelmingly agreed that the biggest opportunity to streamline the sales and financing process is improving the quality of the customer’s transition from sales to F&I, they also saw a significant obstacle in the lack of integration and data exchange between vendors’ systems/platforms – which hampers connection between online tools with in-store process. Eighty-eight percent agreed that improved cooperation and data sharing could eliminate online to in-store information disconnects and bottlenecks.

“The survey confirms that the sales process can’t evolve – or speed up - unless vendors start connecting the online and offline dots, yet the lack of systems integration means that dealers are unable to embrace new processes,” said Pete MacInnis, CEO of eLEND Solutions. “The way to shorten the customer sales journey – and sell more cars in the process – is to create seamless, real-time integrations between the dealer website, CRM, Desking/Finance and DMS platforms.”

In fact, 86% of dealers agree that vendor cooperation and coordination could facilitate a greatly reduced start-to-finish transaction time. However, dealers are not optimistic that this can be achieved: 54% of dealers said that it is only somewhat likely and 19% said unlikely that this type of cross-platform integration will happen in the future.

Survey highlights:

• 85% think the ideal sales & financing process should be 2 hours or less (versus 59% in 2014)
• 42% of dealers estimated the average start-to-finish transaction time is 3+ hours (versus 40% in 2014)
• 86% of dealers strongly agreed or agreed that improved cooperation and data sharing between their vendors’ systems and platforms could eliminate online to in-store information disconnects, reduce bottlenecks and accelerate transaction times
• 54% of dealers said that it is only somewhat likely and 19% said unlikely that in the future, Website, CRM, DMS and Finance platforms will move to an open integration model that supports the dealers evolving Sales and Finance processes
• Of those that think open integration is unlikely, competition and protecting the status quo were cited as the top reasons.
• 86% of dealers strongly agreed or agreed that vendor cooperation and coordination could facilitate a greatly reduced start-to-finish transaction time.
• Nearly 60% of dealers agree that specialized best of breed solutions are the way to go because of their higher product quality and service levels (70%).

*Survey conducted online among U.S. dealerships in November 2015.

About eLEND Solutions
eLEND Solutions is a privately held technology company whose patented platform offers integrated credit, identification and finance solutions that enable a connected buying experience for consumers and a streamlined sales and finance workflow for dealers and lenders that reduces the time to complete a vehicle purchase transaction from hours to minutes. For more information, visit www.elendsolutions.com

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Boulder, CO – January 13, 2016 — Confident Financial Solutions, (CFS) a consumer finance company that offers auto repair financing to service centers and their customers, today announced a partnership and data integration with Moxy Solutions. Through it’s comprehensive product suite, Moxy serves the vehicle service contract (VSC) industry to manage call centers, track contracts in transit, monitor the process, and provide additional revenue streams for auto retailers, in both sales and service. The integration opens up an untapped revenue generator and customer retention solution for service centers.

“As a Technology leader in the direct to consumer industry for automotive products, we continuously look for innovative solutions to expose to our Call Centers, Automotive Retailers and Service Centers,” said JJ Demma, Owner, Moxy Solutions. “The CFS relationship has opened up an untapped revenue generator and customer retention solution for our clients.  CFS’ repair finance product is the perfect addition to our suite of products and continues to be received with great enthusiasm.”

Moxy Solutions streamlines the sales and deal-closing process from end-to-end, helping service centers work smarter and faster than ever before. It provides accurate VSC rates for the vehicle the customer is purchasing, compares multiple companies to ensure the best program is presented, and ensures that coverage levels are just right for each transaction. CFS provides a favorable alternative to credit card financing, resulting in increased credit approvals and immediate access to capital. Customers apply online via a smart phone, tablet or computer and receive a credit decision in less than five minutes. With CFS, partner service centers further increase activity on the service drive, increase revenue and enhance overall customer retention.

“This partnership really is a win-win for all concerned and should lead to increased customer loyalty and revenue” said John Dunning, CEO of CFS. “Through the Moxy/CFS data integration, customer’s that don’t qualify for an Extended Vehicle Service Contract, or that are faced with a denied claim, will now be offered the CFS auto repair financing application.  Consumers can apply for the financing to cover their ‘out of pocket’ automotive repair costs. The Moxy software platform powers about half of all Vehicle Service Contract (VSC) call centers nationwide.  All of our financing data automatically pre-populates in the application so this same integration can now be passed over to any of our partners. The call center has all the VIN data and the customer data automatically pre-populates the screen. With just a couple of clicks, that customer can be approved for financing with CFS at a monthly payment they can afford,” Dunning added.

About Moxy Solutions:

An innovation in service contract sales, Moxy Solutions streamlines the sales and deal-closing process from end-to-end. It helps team members work smarter and faster than ever before to provide accurate quotes, stellar follow-up, and team member reporting. And now, with CMT, Moxy Solutions has even automated policy fulfillment. This means fewer errors and overnight transmittal to certified facilities, enabling same-day printing and closing the loop with industry leading mail tracking to verify delivery to customers.

About Confident Financial Solutions:

Confident Financial Solutions is a consumer finance company that offers auto repair financing to service centers and their customers. Its primary goal is to provide a favorable alternative to credit card financing, resulting in increased credit approvals and immediate access to capital. Customers apply online via a smart phone, tablet or computer and receive an instant credit decision. With CFS, partner service centers increase activity on the service drive, increase revenue at the service center and enhance overall customer retention. Based in Boulder, Colorado, CFS is the consumer’s choice for auto repair loans.

LA CROSSE, WI – DealerVault is proud to announce the newest members of its Premier Network –GrowthFX, VistaDash, & reVo marketing group.

DealerVault’s Premier Network allows third-party solution providers to actively support dealerships’ desire to take back control of their data. This platform creates a win-win for vendors and dealerships alike. Dealerships are empowered with control over their data while utilizing the DealerVault tool at no charge, and Premier Vendors are able to actively support this desired effort. DealerVault is excited to have GrowthFX, VistaDash, & reVo marketing group join them in their endeavor to revolutionize the automotive industry by putting dealerships back in control of their data.

“I would like to welcome GrowthFX, VistaDash, & reVo marketing group to the DealerVault Premier Network. I greatly anticipate the support these optimal partnerships will provide for the industry as a whole, and highly commend their courage in embracing transparency and dealer control in data movement. Thank you for joining the industry revolution, and welcome to the DealerVault Premier Network!” commented Stephen Cottrell, President and CEO of DealerVault.

About GrowthFX: GrowthFX provides customer engagement and sales alignment products for the automotive industry. The company’s new GFX platform is a set of tools designed to optimize the most critical step of the purchase equation: the sales rep-to-prospect interaction. GrowthFX considers DealerVault an essential partner as their PRO:file solution depends on a tightly integrated DMS relationship. Dependable, ongoing sales, service, and inventory data is critical to their success and the value their clients expect them to deliver.

About VistaDash by PCG Companies: VistaDash is a comprehensive visual aid that allows you to review and analyze data from multiple sources at a glance. Its clear, user-friendly interface displays all your latest data trends, allowing you to quickly and easily analyze information and encourage smarter marketing decisions. Integrating VistaDash with DealerVault will give DealerVault customers the ability to utilize VistaDash to view their inventory and sales data, along with all of the other metrics and vendor data that is most valuable to their dealership.

About reVo marketing group: reVo marketing group provides multi-faceted, direct mail campaigns and digital marketing solutions for automotive dealership and OEMs nationwide. In three short years, they have successfully managed over 1,200 campaigns by providing their clients an innovative, highly analytical and results driven approach to automotive marketing. As a Premier Vendor with DealerVault, reVo’s clients are now able to have full control of their data syndication with complete visibility, less set up time, better reporting, and industry leading data security.

About DealerVault:

DealerVault is the first cloud-based system designed to empower dealerships with control over the syndication and distribution of their DMS data. Its’ easy to use, web-based platform allows dealerships to quickly setup, view, and modify DMS data feeds. DealerVault provides dealerships with a solution to all pressing issues including security, compliance, and the indemnification of a $20 million cyber liability policy. For more information, visit http://www.dealervault.com or call 877-834-2451.

Urbandale, IA--January 12th, 2016--Flick Fusion (www.flickfusion.com) announced today that Tim James, Chief Operating Officer of Flick Fusion Video Marketing, will be speaking at the 20th Digital Dealer Conference & Exposition in Orlando, FL. James will present "The Four Best Ways to Use Video: Learn a Video Marketing Strategy That Sells!" In his session James will share the types of low-funnel videos that have the biggest impact on critical Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), from converting leads to increasing appointment and show rates.

"Many dealers know they should be using videos, but many don't know what types of videos they should be using to help them achieve specific goals," said James. "This session will show auto marketers where to start, how to use the videos, and how to measure the return on investment so they will know how to make their video marketing strategy a success."

James's presentation is designed for auto dealer executives, sales managers and Internet marketing personnel who want to learn how to create an effective and measurable video marketing strategy. Workshop attendees will take away the following:

• Learn which videos have the biggest impact on sales throughout the entire buying cycle
• Identify ways to improve the informational and emotional value of videos throughout the buying cycle
• Learn how to leverage videos to simplify the sales process and improve each video’s impact on the viewer.

This presentation is designed for Intermediate level marketers and is ideal for those who want to learn how to use videos to convert website visitors into leads, keep leads engaged after contact, set more appointments, increase show rates and more!

James is a regular and in-demand speaker in the retail automotive community. His session is scheduled for Tuesday, January 19th at 2:30 pm EST at the 20th Digital Dealer Conference & Exposition. For more information, call Flick Fusion at 515-333-4337.

About Flick Fusion

Flick Fusion specializes in creating, managing, and distributing dynamic and cost-effective online and mobile video products. Each video is designed to help dealerships reach and engage with customers, delivering rich content that results in increased sales and ROI. Flick Fusion produces video content for more than 3,000 dealerships and more than a dozen reseller partners. For more information, visit www.flickfusion.com.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 11, 2016 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Auto dealers deserve to know with confidence the status of open recalls of vehicles on their lot and those being on-boarded through reconditioning, but recall verification data is often erroneous, says Dennis McGinn, CEO of Rapid Recon time-to-market reconditioning workflow software.

"One in four vehicles today has an open safety recalls on it and though dealers trust their VIN safety recall notifications we're finding instead a 30% error rate in that data through our Recall Management app," McGinn says.

Dealers using Recall Management realize:

• Reduced recall exposure
• Increased warranty revenue
• Improved customer safety and CSI
• Enhanced market differentiation
• Optimized service bay utilization
• Reduced overhead costs

For a demonstration of Recall Management and its benefits to your bottom line, learn here or visit http://www.rapidrecon.com/safety-recall/

To achieve its accuracy, Rapid Recon Open Safety Recall Management, relies on multiple safety-recall sources and scrubs the data to isolate exceptions, which it then troubleshoots to get to the truth.

With OEMs and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reporting over 63 million safety recalls this year, meaning a 175,000 vehicles a day being affected by vehicle safety recalls, a vehicle on-boarded this morning free of a safety recall may be reported as having one by evening. "We're seeing 10-11% of inventory on dealers' lots change like this in a day," McGinn notes.

Recall Management, a data analysis and scrubbing tool, pulls open safety recall data from OEMs, NHTSA, vehicle history reports and other sources. Rapid Recall then provides a cleansed and verified list twice daily or more to the dealership general manager, and to used car, service, and reconditioning managers.

"To be completely certain about its inventory's safety recall status, a dealership can assign an individual to enter each vehicle's VIN one at a time into one of more systems or automate the verification process in batches multiple times a day through Recall Management," McGinn notes.

Dealerships such as Greenway Ford and Dodge, Orlando, and Ricart Automotive, Columbus, Ohio and others use Recall Management from Rapid Recon to ease recall stress and raise their confidence that no car is sold having an open safety recall.

Rapid Recon is the leading time-to-market reconditioning software for new and used car dealerships. Rapid Recon benchmarks and best practices help GMs, used car managers, and service managers fine-tune their reconditioning practices to achieve faster time to market that helps retain vehicle gross. 

Cars Registry’s Early Registration Begins with Automotive Domains like Hybrid.Cars, Midsize.Car, and Dallas.Auto Now Available; First-Come, First-Served

Santa Monica, CA -- January 12, 2016 – Cars Registry, a joint venture between XYZ and Uniregistry, today announced the first opportunity for the general public to register some of the best domain names ending in .Cars, .Car, and .Auto. This Early Access Period (EAP) kicks off today at 7:00 AM PT, with short, geographic, and keyword domains such as 1.Car, Detroit.Auto, and Compact.Cars expected to be registered early.

Running from January 12-20, the EAP gives dealerships, manufacturers, and other businesses the opportunity to secure their ideal .Cars, .Car, and .Auto web addresses for a one-time premium fee before access broadens on January 20. Because this period is open to the general public, names can be secured at hundreds of authorized retailers, such as GoDaddy.Cars and NetworkSolutions.Cars, without restriction or pre-qualification.

The EAP immediately follows a very successful trademark-only period, which featured hundreds of automotive industry registrations, including Mercedes.Cars, Toyota.Cars, Honda.Auto, Mini.Cars, Smart.Car, Mitsubishi.Auto, and Bentley.Auto. Other registrations - such as Michelin.Auto, BFGoodrich.Auto, Brose.Cars, Ally.Auto, and StateFarm.Cars - also were secured by companies working with the automotive industry. Even industry newcomers registered names, including Apple.Car, GoogleSelfDriving.Cars, and X.Auto.

“The number of manufacturers, suppliers, and Fortune 100 companies that have already adopted these automotive-specific domains is a testament to the industry’s embrace of the future of automotive marketing,” said Mike Ambrose, COO of Cars Registry. “.Cars, .Car, and .Auto allow businesses to become automotive authorities while upgrading their old, clunky URLs.”

“The 8-day EAP window is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for dealerships to stake their claims to the Internet’s most valuable real estate and stand out from their competitors,” said Frank Schilling, Co-founder of Cars Registry. “Domains that were impossible to get in the past - like LA.Cars, TX.Car, and NYC.Auto - are now available to the dealership that places its order first.”

About Cars Registry Limited

Cars Registry Limited is the registry operator for .Cars, .Car, and .Auto. Founded in 2015 by domain industry leaders XYZ and Uniregistry, the company provides Internet naming options for the automotive industry. From car dealerships to car enthusiasts, Cars Registry Limited allows anyone, worldwide, to secure memorable and relevant domains.

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