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

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634 points RVRX | 2 comments | 17 Apr 25 00:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.88s | source
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stackskipton ◴[17 Apr 25 01:55 UTC] No.43712323[source]▶
This smells like something happened with MarkMonitor, they accidently flagged zoom.us as brand spoofing and filed copyright complaint with GoDaddy who runs .us TLD. GoDaddy suspended the domain per the complaint.
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1. Alupis ◴[17 Apr 25 02:20 UTC] No.43712476[source]▶
If this is the case, then it seems to be a very clear-cut example as-to why we should reject these sort of automated "take downs". They can and are abused, including copyright violations on Github, YouTube, etc.

Since when did we accept, as a society, guilty until proven innocent? I recognize GoDaddy is not the government - but this is unacceptable. A human spending 3 seconds looking at the domain would understand it's a false-positive and should not be removed.

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2. selcuka ◴[17 Apr 25 04:20 UTC] No.43713093[source]▶
> Since when did we accept, as a society, guilty until proven innocent?

At least since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.