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

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634 points RVRX | 3 comments | 17 Apr 25 00:55 UTC | HN request time: 1.414s | source
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Animats ◴[17 Apr 25 03:05 UTC] No.43712702[source]▶
That seriously devalues MarkMonitor's services. MarkMonitor claims to be a "an ICANN-accredited registrar and recognized industry leader since 1999". The whole point of paying for MarkMonitor is that they're an expensive service for valuable domains and are not allowed to screw up. GoDaddy should not be involved here at all.
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electroly ◴[17 Apr 25 04:21 UTC] No.43713101[source]▶
GoDaddy Registry operates the .us registry. You cannot have a .us domain without their involvement. Consider whether you wanted a .com domain instead (which is operated by Verisign).
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throw_a_grenade ◴[17 Apr 25 07:13 UTC] No.43713949[source]▶
zoom.com is an audio equipment manufacturer, which was there before zoom.us.

I guess that's what happens where they had to accept substandard domain, because they were unwilling to be creative about their name.

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rhubarbtree ◴[17 Apr 25 07:28 UTC] No.43714008[source]▶
Incidentally, Zoom seems a terrible name for a video conferencing app - anyone know why they chose it?
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j45 ◴[17 Apr 25 07:36 UTC] No.43714064[source]▶
One guess - fast video.
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1. j45 ◴[17 Apr 25 08:28 UTC] No.43714320[source]▶
Added context: Zoom delivered a step change in video conferencing quality for the many, vs the few, and in a lot of ways did seem to force others to be better.

During the pandemic many people used zoom more than their cell phones.

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2. rhubarbtree ◴[17 Apr 25 11:56 UTC] No.43715483[source]▶
I immediately agreed with this, but at the same time it’s not “fast” is it? It’s higher quality or more reliably, something like that. But emotionally I agree it does feel “faster”.
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3. j45 ◴[17 Apr 25 16:44 UTC] No.43719308[source]▶
Fair point - it's smoother video that gives a better quality experience.

The speed of starting a call sometimes could take a bit more but once established was higher quality than the alternatives at the time.