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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: 0.291s | source
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ajdude ◴[17 Apr 25 01:53 UTC] No.43712307[source]▶
A few years ago I had a .us TLD. I eventually decided that I probably shouldn't be reliant on a country code for my domain, it's the same reason why I don't use .io

I'm not saying that this couldn't have happened with a gTLD But why put your brand at the mercy of a government like that?

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lucb1e ◴[17 Apr 25 02:01 UTC] No.43712351[source]▶
What TLD is not subject to a country's laws? .aq? .su?

Edit: .eu might be an even better candidate for this requirement, but you can ask British former domain owners how that worked out

gTLDs just subject you to an additional layer of incompetence, namely from the company running it. The government where they're located can still come knocking. It's also not like e.g. .nl is run by the Dutch government officials, it's a nonprofit started by some people in the 80s iirc

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bongodongobob ◴[17 Apr 25 02:15 UTC] No.43712449[source]▶
It's the specific country being referenced, I think.
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1. swores ◴[17 Apr 25 02:34 UTC] No.43712549[source]▶
They wrote that they were talking about country code TLDs vs not, not about US vs. other countries. (Which is what I would've said too, it's a more general point than thinking about anything specific to one country.)

Ironically that one country happens to be the one that also controls gTLDs like .com, as others have pointed out, so arguably .us is the one ccTLD that isn't any more or less likely to be reliable.