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Fresh York man may have lucked out with Apple CarPlay

Fresh York man may have lucked out with Apple CarPlay

Fresh York registered CarPlay.com domain name in 2000.

Apple CarPlayNearly 14 years ago Fresh Yorker Thomas Fitzgibbon registered the domain name CarPlay.com.

“I just thought cars are going to be automated in the future, and we’re getting to the point where that’s happening today,” he explained to Reglike. “I figured people would be playing games in and around their cars.”

Fitzgibbon was surprised to wake up to the news the prior week that Apple was launching a fresh product called CarPlay. Apple CarPlay integrates the iPhone in the car’s built-in display.

Fitzgibbon isn’t a domain investor, but his firm develops websites for clients. He has registered a handful of domain names over the years with plans for future use.

Will Apple’s use of the CarPlay name allow Fitzgibbon to cash in? He may be holding a winning lottery ticket, but Apple isn’t always willing to pay an unlimited amount for domain names. While it did acquire the iPhone.com domain name, it still doesn’t own iPad.com.

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