When your brand copies off another business’s name, making claims about the name’s origin won’t work if you also copy their content.
A UDRP filed at the WIPO against the domain name DigikaPart.com by DigiKey Electronics, was met by a surprising claim by the Respondent.
DigikaPart was registered in Iran and appears to be providing electronic “keys” and parts thereof. The Respondent stated that the origin of the name is a composite of Farsi words:
- The domain name is the initials of the Respondent’s name in Farsi: Di stands for Danesh -means: knowledge Gi stands for Gostaran -means: Developers Ka stands for Kala -means: Merchandise. Part is Farsi word and used to be one of the ancient tribe and wasn’t meant to be interpreted as piece in English.
- Respondent acknowledges that their contracting web-designing company has used the pictures of Complainant’s webpage.
- Respondent states they have already changed the logo and announced on their webpage that their company is not related to Digi-Key.
- Respondent argues that the marketing field of Digikapart is inside Iran and has no sale or export to other countries.
- Respondent alleges that the Iranian consumers cannot access Digi.key webpage.
Unfortunately for the Respondent, they also copied the logo and the look and feel of the Complainant’s web site. at DigiKey.com.
While the current content at DigikaPart.com alerts users to the dispute over the domain, when using Screenshots.com we found its content to be a convincing clone, as seen below:
With all that in mind, Héctor Ariel Manoff, sole panelist, decided to order the transfer of DigikaPart.com to the Complainant.
For the full text of this UDRP, click here.
