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Oh man...I got this backpack from Amazon, and it's honestly a great backpack, I like it a lot...but the seller named their brand Kaka. I got the backpack anyway...but very much cut the "Kaka" brand tag off.
It's so stupid that this honestly great backpack got saddled with a name that means "poo" in more than one European language.
And there was this other product I saw the other day that was something like "doukee".
I can't tell if it's an honest mistake, or if whoever is doing some of those English brand name translations is having a giant laugh at their expense.
afaik Amazon tries to offload the work of vetting its vendors by requiring them to have a registered trademark. This led to all the sketchy sellers making tons of fake companies with random strings of letters as names, knowing the USPTO is going to approve "AEGIJDU Clothing" because nobody is ever going to contest that name.
That's why you see a ton of identical products listed with supposedly different, super random brand names, in case Amazon tries to take down one of the "vendors" (aka, one of the real vendor's many fronts).