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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: 0.357s | 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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renegade-otter ◴[17 Apr 25 08:41 UTC] No.43714371[source]▶
These big companies spend tens of millions on homegrown tooling, even their own languages and databases, but they can't assign one dev to write a domain-monitoring tool?
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1. dewey ◴[17 Apr 25 09:16 UTC] No.43714549[source]▶
You are thinking like a developer. In reality that means that now they are responsible for it, if MarkMonitor messes something up they can use their relationship to all the registrars to fix the problem and MarkMonitor is on the hook in case anything goes wrong.

This is a better situation to be in than some internal tooling that failed to notify someone because it got forgotten after the developer left.