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

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634 points RVRX | 5 comments | 17 Apr 25 00:55 UTC | HN request time: 1.027s | 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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thih9 ◴[17 Apr 25 07:34 UTC] No.43714048[source]▶
> zoom.com is an audio equipment manufacturer

False, the audio equipment manufacturer uses: https://zoomcorp.com/

The https://zoom.com domain shows content from the video chat platform.

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1. ceejayoz ◴[17 Apr 25 13:27 UTC] No.43716504[source]▶
They did buy zoom.com from someone in 2019, though, for $2M.

https://domainnamewire.com/2019/03/23/did-zoom-pay-2-million...

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3. lakkal ◴[17 Apr 25 15:03 UTC] No.43717955[source]▶
Interesting. I used to buy Zoom modems in the 80s-90s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Telephonics), but apparently they have nothing to do with either of the other two Zoom companies mentioned here. I had occasionally wondered but never looked into it until now.
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4. polynomial ◴[17 Apr 25 18:32 UTC] No.43720539[source]▶
Back in the day, wasn't it either Zoom or Hayes?
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5. kevinmhickey ◴[17 Apr 25 18:40 UTC] No.43720613{3}[source]▶
Don't forget US Robotics