Dot Auto, LLC, one of the four applicants for the .AUTO gTLD (the other ones are Donuts, Fegistry, LLC and Uniregistry) has started their marketing for a potential launch of the gTLD, before they even know any results of the evaluation phase. (source infra, emphasis added)
One of the .AUTO new gTLD applicant launches pre-registration and ...
Domain Name News
Within the next year, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will introduce hundreds of new, industry-specific Top Level Domains (TLD), such as .AUTO, to the Internet. The .AUTO domain extension will act as an alternative... (read more at the link above)