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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: 0s | 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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VWWHFSfQ ◴[17 Apr 25 02:13 UTC] No.43712427[source]▶
> But why put your brand at the mercy of a government like that?

Literally every single TLD is administered by a government.

.com itself is under jurisdiction of USA and operated by Verisign

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1. ryan29 ◴[17 Apr 25 16:38 UTC] No.43719234[source]▶
> .com itself is under jurisdiction of USA and operated by Verisign

Barely. The NTIA gave up all their leverage over .com in 2018. The only thing the US can do at this point is let the cooperative agreement auto-renew to limit price increases.

I wouldn't be surprised if the US withdrew from the agreement altogether at this point. Then .com would fall under the joint control of ICANN and Verisign.