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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: 0.003s | 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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1. numpad0 ◴[17 Apr 25 08:33 UTC] No.43714336[source]▶
Presumably the idea is that fabricating a legal offense to shut down a ccTLD would be easier than it would be for regular TLDs.

I don't know if that's actually the case, I've heard some shady sites are using .su(Soviet Union) to avoid judicial actions.

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2. lucb1e ◴[17 Apr 25 10:00 UTC] No.43714802[source]▶
Wait, we're talking about buying domain names right? Not about buying countries in order to own a ccTLD rather than a 'regular' TLD

So then you don't have to produce an offence that takes the TLD down (whichever kind) but one that makes a judge within the country that the TLD operator operates in approve a takedown notice for your domain name or even get the TLD operator to cooperate voluntarily