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cars.com

Cars.com is an online portal for buying/selling of new & used cars

Cars.com is the fastest-growing automotive marketplace for buyers, dealers and private-party sellers.

Authority

87/100

Safety

90/100

Known risk signals, not a check pass rate

Registered

Feb 12, 1998

28 years old · MarkMonitor Inc.

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The site's bot protection blocked AboutUs's HTTPS check; all 1 of the other checks passed (Sep 30, 2026).

On record since 1998 — see history

DNS

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Current facts

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Authority & Safety, with the evidence

How this is scored →

Authority 87/100 — ahead of 87% of the August 2026 scored sampleClear

Why this authority score

87 is a percentile: higher than 87% of sites we score.

How it's calculated

Prominence (Tranco rank #4,028)+9
Verified continuity: 28.6 years (RDAP registration)+11
Security & email hygiene+5
Calibration adjustment (published map)+19

Model score: 44/99 — what these reason lines add up to.

Published Authority (percentile): 87/100 — this site's rank against the August 2026 scored sample. Public Authority is capped at 99.

Safety evidence

No unexpired threat-feed result; name-similarity check available (recorded less than a day ago); 3/3 transport and email checks available (oldest recorded less than a day ago). This is evidence coverage, not a probability that a website is safe.

No caution flags in the available scoring observations; this is not a complete safety assessment

Site history

Dated record — historical facts always carry their date; self-description below is the 2013 record.

1998
Domain registered (Feb 12, 1998).
2006
First tracked by AboutUs (Jun 19, 2006); profile edited 28 times through 2013.
2013
Self-description at the time:
“Cars.com is an online portal for buying/selling of new & used cars”
2026
Checked today — The site's bot protection blocked AboutUs's HTTPS check; all 1 of the other checks passed (Sep 30, 2026).

✓ domain continuity 28 years registered✓ live verified Sep 30, 2026

Common questions

Is cars.com legit or a scam?

cars.com was registered Feb 12, 1998 (28 years old), per public registration records. AboutUs doesn't label sites "legit" or "a scam": this page lists the dated registration, DNS, HTTPS, mail-authentication and safety checks we could verify, each with its source, so you can decide for yourself.

Who owns cars.com?

Nobody has completed AboutUs's owner verification for cars.com. That's true of most sites here — it isn't itself a warning sign.

When was cars.com registered?

cars.com's registration dates to Feb 12, 1998 (28 years old), per public registration records. MarkMonitor Inc. is the registrar on record today.

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