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Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the zoom.us domain

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634 points RVRX | 1 comments | 17 Apr 25 00:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.222s | source
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RVRX ◴[17 Apr 25 00:55 UTC] No.43711958[source]▶
"This block was the result of a communication error between Zoom’s domain registrar, Markmonitor, and GoDaddy Registry, which resulted in GoDaddy Registry mistakenly shutting down zoom.us domain. "
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LinuxBender ◴[17 Apr 25 01:00 UTC] No.43711994[source]▶
Something is fishy about this. A communication error would not result in a domain being placed on hold. On hold is usually the result of a legal order or in the case of the .us TLD a nexus compliance violation. I've transferred thousands of domains from assorted dodgy registrars into MarkMonitor and can not even imagine a scenario where a miscommunication results in a domain being placed on hold.
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gjsman-1000 ◴[17 Apr 25 01:12 UTC] No.43712073[source]▶
Nah, weird stuff that “shouldn’t” happen almost always happens more often than things that “should” happen.
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root_axis ◴[17 Apr 25 01:42 UTC] No.43712260[source]▶
What? Weird stuff happens less by definition.
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bombcar ◴[17 Apr 25 01:55 UTC] No.43712322[source]▶
Not necessarily. The default could happen 49% of the time, and everything else happens way less than 1%, but is weird.

So 51% of the time it’s weird, but not the same weird.

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1. LinuxBender ◴[17 Apr 25 01:59 UTC] No.43712340[source]▶
Every place I've been we measured such weirdness outside of the 95'th and 99'th percentile. Anything out of common occurrence beyond the 99'th could be weird or interesting or fascinating. I still wish I could share the incident of a single NIC on a single server taking down an entire data-center, that was both weird and fascinating.