ZUT.com hit with UDRP — Francois Carrillo’s

Another day, another UDRP on a three letter domain name.

Sadly, this isn’t an April Fools’ joke.

Francois Carrillo, who runs Domaining.com, has just been hit with a UDRP for the domain name Zut.com.

The complainant is Interbasic Holding S.A., which has a perfume line called Zut.

I think the defense ought to be pretty straightforward for Carrillo. Following all, the guy runs an auction site dedicated solely to three and four letter domain names like zut.com, jef.com, and cafi.com. As far as I can tell the domain hasn’t been parked in a while either; instead forwarding to a sales listing on Catchy.com. Asking price: $120,000.

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out he wasn’t targeting Interbasic Holding with this domain name.

And it may just be that Interbasic is on a reverse domain hijacking spree: it also filed a case for Shocking.com. The firm also has a perfume line called Shocking.

Now that’s shocking.