.chevy Domain

The .chevy string is the colloquial counterpart to .chevrolet, applied for in ICANN's 2012 New gTLD Program on a principle that recurs throughout the round: customers use abbreviations and nicknames rather than formal names, so the short form is what gets typed, what appears in advertising, and what an attacker would register if left available. Securing only the formal string leaves the more valuable one exposed.

The application did not proceed to delegation. No registry agreement was ever signed, so the extension has never existed in the DNS root zone — these were withdrawn as a group by a single automotive applicant before any agreement was reached. Strings in this position cannot be registered, and returning one to consideration would require a new ICANN application round.