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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.
I always assumed that Zoom reacted to security/privacy concerns about its association with China by getting a "*.us" domain that sounded very United States.
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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?
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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.
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.
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?
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.
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Please don't keep us in suspense ... who is privacy?
They probably meant "whois privacy"[1] (without the space). Whois is basically a way to get information about a domain name (and many other stuff). Whois privacy just ensures that your address, name and other stuff is not public. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_privacy
Your reply doesn't seem sarcastic, so I take it you genuinely r/whoosh'ed (that's a reference to a subreddit about situations where someone is acting clueless).
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?
> But why put your brand at the mercy of a government like that? I tend to trust my government (Canada) and I appreciate that WHOIS information is hidden by default for .ca domains. I live here and always will so it seems fit to use the national TLD for representing myself and my work.
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What TLD is not subject to a country's laws? .aq? .su? Edit: .eu might be an even better candidate for this requirement, but you can ask British former domain owners how that worked out gTLDs just subject you to an additional layer of incompetence, namely from the company running it. The government where they're located can still come knocking. It's also not like e.g. .nl is run by the Dutch government officials, it'…
Presumably the idea is that fabricating a legal offense to shut down a ccTLD would be easier than it would be for regular TLDs. I don't know if that's actually the case, I've heard some shady sites are using .su(Soviet Union) to avoid judicial actions.
So then you don't have to produce an offence that takes the TLD down (whichever kind) but one that makes a judge within the country that the TLD operator operates in approve a takedown notice for your domain name or even get the TLD operator to cooperate voluntarily
Zoom CEO: Hi, we'd like an SLA credit for the global outage you caused our company. GoDaddy: I am so sorry about that. I can offer you a one-time coupon for $10 off your next purchase or renewal. Would you like me to apply this to your account? --- Most companies just hope an apologetic zoom call is enough to retain your business, and most of the time it works. Not enough has been written about the asymmetry of your…
You probably don’t want to optimize for the SLA credit making up for a significant part of your lost revenue — because that would mean when things are operating normally, you don’t have much of a profit margin. SLA’s are generally more helpful for getting out of long term contracts with unreliable vendors than actually making up for revenue lost during an outage.
If you have 100% SLA credit under 99% availability you can't aford to be less than 99% available and I know that your SLA means something to you, not just an aspirational bullet point.