Tesla, founded by Ilon Mask, obtained rights to the domain
tesla.com .

The history of the domain begins in 1992, when a simple American engineer and Nikola Tesla fan Stu Grossman registered this domain. The domain owner refused to sell it to others, and the domain itself was not used.
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And just recently, a lawyer who represents the interests of the owner said that the domain was transferred to the company Mask.
Bloomberg writes that Tesla Motors has been trying to get this domain for at least 10 years. They write that the next step will be to rename
Tesla Motors to
Tesla , which Ilan Mask has wanted since its inception.
According to
Domain Tools statistics , over 125 million domains are registered in the .com zone. In the national zone. Ru, for comparison, less than 5 million.
Since February 2016, anyone can register domains in .car, .cars, auto zones for about $ 3,000.