Another 200 are unregistered; it is not uncommon for registrations to be rejected on technical grounds.
One focused on increasing registrations to a product over a certain period of time.
It now expects new car registrations to rise by 8% this year to hit 2.45m.
Dickins said: "We were carefully monitoring all of the registrations to try and spot anything suspicious".
In 1639, the Massachusetts Bay Colony transferred such registrations to the courts.
(Indeed, several operators of new domain extensions actively market these so-called defensive registrations to trademark owners).
This will restrict registrations to just 240,000 additional vehicles in 2011, a third of the current annual level.
Most of them were installed after state legislators in the 1980's authorized a $1 surcharge on vehicle registrations to pay for them.
"Pesticide manufacturers use conditional registrations to rush bee-toxic products to market, with little public oversight," said Paul Towers, at Pesticide Action Network, part of the coalition.
Big Room is also promising to give a percentage of the money it makes from registrations to "an independent foundation that will support sustainability in developing countries".
In a vote along party lines, the board rejected a recommendation to turn over the information about fraudulent registrations to the district attorneys in the five boroughs.
