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

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.

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).

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.

Incidentally, Zoom seems a terrible name for a video conferencing app - anyone know why they chose it?

It’s all relative. Is “Webex” better? “Skype”? “BlueJeans”??

Fair. They are worse.