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

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634 points RVRX | 4 comments | 17 Apr 25 00:55 UTC | HN request time: 1.082s | 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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1. eli ◴[17 Apr 25 02:15 UTC] No.43712446[source]▶
Isn't the stated reason, a miscommunication with the registrar, far far more likely?
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2. x0x0 ◴[17 Apr 25 02:39 UTC] No.43712577[source]▶
Well, Zoom also lied about their encryption (or, perhaps more charitably, described it in a misleading way. nah, they just lied) and was directing traffic through chinese servers with no reason for doing it -- it was occurring when all meeting participants and the company paying for the zoom account were outside China -- besides enabling spying.
3. Spooky23 ◴[17 Apr 25 03:26 UTC] No.43712818[source]▶
In normal times, absolutely. These aren’t normal times.
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4. varenc ◴[17 Apr 25 05:28 UTC] No.43713390{3}[source]▶
What's the escalation theory here mean? The US shut it down to damage a company it doesn't like? And 2-4 hours is meaningful? or China did it? Maybe it was shutdown and used as negotiating leverage and brought back when some agreement was reached?

GoDaddy's involvement really makes me believe that it's a genuine screw up.