The Complainant was founded in 2011. It operates an online retail store and provides pet supplies and pet wellness-related services, including pet food, treats, supplies, and veterinary pharmaceutical products and services. The Complainant operates its official website at the domain name <chewy.com> registered on 18 April 2004, where it offers pet supplies and pet wellness-related services.<\/p>\n
The disputed domain name was registered on 2 December 2025. At the time of filing of the Complaint, it resolved to a webshop offering various pet products and services with prices in US Dollars. The website displayed the title “Chewy Paws” and showed no information about the identity of its provider.<\/p>", "other_legal_proceedings": "
The Panel is not aware of any other legal proceedings which are pending or decided and which relate to the disputed domain name.<\/p>", "no_response_filed": "
COMPLAINANT<\/p>\n
The Complainant states that the disputed domain name is confusingly similar to the CHEWY trademark, because it fully incorporates it, adding only the dictionary word “paws” and the “.shop” generic Top-Level Domain (“gTLD”), which is insufficient to prevent a finding of confusing similarity with the Complainant’s trademark.<\/p>\n
The Complainant asserts that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the disputed domain name, because it is not commonly known by it and has not been authorized by the Complainant to use the CHEWY trademark or the disputed domain name. The Complainant notes that the disputed domain name was registered long after the Complainant registered the CHEWY trademark and it gained extensive goodwill. The Complainant points out that the disputed domain name resolves to a commercial website that mimics the Complainant’s online storefront and uses pet-related imagery, product categories, and branding elements designed to evoke the CHEWY trademark, including unauthorized reproductions of the Complainant’s brand name. The Complainant points out that the Respondent’s website does not accurately disclose its lack of a relationship or affiliation with the Complainant. In the Complainant’s view, the Respondent is thus monetizing the disputed domain name by trading on the goodwill associated with the CHEWY trademark to mislead Internet users into believing that its website is operated by or affiliated with the Complainant.<\/p>\n
The Complainant contends that the disputed domain name was registered and is being used in bad faith. It notes that the Respondent registered the disputed domain name very recently and long after the Complainant had registered the CHEWY trademark, and is using it to attract Internet users to the associated website, which offers competing products under the Complainant’s trademark. According to the Complainant, this shows that the Respondent has registered and used the disputed domain name with knowledge of the Complainant and with an intent to disrupt the Complainant’s business and to attract Internet users for commercial gain by creating a likelihood of confusion with the Complainant’s CHEWY trademark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement of the website to which the disputed domain name resolves.<\/p>\n
The Complainant also maintains that the Respondent has engaged in a pattern of bad faith domain name registrations, and refers to the decision in ContextLogic Inc. v. Yaroslav Nevskiy<\/em>, Claim No. FA2212002022421, which involved similar circumstances. According to the Complainant, that decision shows that the registration of the disputed domain name was not accidental or isolated, but forms part of a broader pattern of cybersquatting behavior.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n RESPONDENT<\/p>\n The Respondent did not submit a Response in this proceeding.<\/p>",
"rights": " The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown the disputed domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the Complainant has rights (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy).<\/p>",
"no_rights_or_legitimate_interests": " The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown the Respondent to have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the disputed domain name (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(ii) of the Policy).<\/p>",
"bad_faith": " The Complainant has, to the satisfaction of the Panel, shown the disputed domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith (within the meaning of paragraph 4(a)(iii) of the Policy).<\/p>",
"procedural_factors": " The Panel is satisfied that all procedural requirements under UDRP were met and there is no other reason why it would be inappropriate to provide a decision.<\/p>",
"decision": "Accepted",
"panelists": [
"Assen Alexiev (Presiding Panelist)"
],
"date_of_panel_decision": "2026-01-15 00:00:00",
"informal_english_translation": " The Complainant is the owner of a number of trademark registrations for CHEWY (the “CHEWY trademark”), including the following representative registrations:<\/p>\n - the United States trademark CHEWY.COM with registration No. 4346308, registered on 4 June 2013 for services in International Class 35; and<\/p>\n - the United States trademark CHEWY with registration No. 5028009, registered on 23 August 2016 for services in International Class 35.<\/p>",
"decision_domains": {
"chewypaws.shop": "TRANSFERRED"
}
}