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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: 0s | 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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rhubarbtree ◴[17 Apr 25 07:28 UTC] No.43714008[source]▶
Incidentally, Zoom seems a terrible name for a video conferencing app - anyone know why they chose it?
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bakuninsbart ◴[17 Apr 25 09:14 UTC] No.43714535[source]▶
It is a one-syllable word, easy to pronounce in many languages, quite distinct from other words and brands, and can easily be turned into a verb.
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Hobadee ◴[17 Apr 25 14:40 UTC] No.43717581[source]▶
Verbing your nouns is a great way to lose your trademark.
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Talanes ◴[17 Apr 25 16:40 UTC] No.43719256{3}[source]▶
Are there any actual recent examples of this? The major examples I've always heard are solidly in the 20th century. It's not like Google has had any problem holding their trademark.
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1. Hobadee ◴[17 Apr 25 23:04 UTC] No.43723156{4}[source]▶
Kleenex and Xerox were both (somewhat) recently in danger of loosing theirs. They both pulled pretty big campaigns to un-verb their trademarks. Google still has a bunch of other products that people are familiar with, so they are in less danger of loosing theirs right now, but give it some time (like 50 years, not 10) and it may happen, especially if they get broken up for being a monopoly. (Which has been mentioned)
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2. Talanes ◴[19 Apr 25 20:47 UTC] No.43739342[source]▶
I'm usually a big proponent of longer-term corporate thinking, but deciding your name around problems you might have five decades after becoming a household name is a little much.