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

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

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Post by agwa »

chrismorgan wrote: post #146
TheDong wrote: post #102

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MarkMonitor isn't at fault here. If you register a ".ps" domain, it doesn't matter if you use MarkMonitor or Namecheap, they can't help you when the ongoing genocide results in the removal of Palestine as a country and ".ps" no longer is a valid country code top level domain. Similarly, if you register a .us domain instead of a ".com", ".net", or ".org", MarkMonitor can't help you when GoDaddy inevitably screws up. H…

> Financially, a proper gTLD also can't raise prices unilaterally and weirdly, while if you pick a ccTLD, the country has free reign to arbitrarily change prices, delete your domain, take over your domain, etc etc. Look into what’s happened with pricing on domains like .org and .info. They’re increasingly absurd, with the restrictions on price increases that once were there largely being removed, at the pushing of th…

Although the .org price caps are gone, the registry has to raise prices uniformly for all domains. They can't target popular domains for discriminatory pricing. ccTLDs can.

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

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Post by agwa »

lucb1e wrote: post #41
ajdude wrote: post #32

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?

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'…

> gTLDs just subject you to an additional layer of incompetence, namely from the company running it.

ccTLDs also have to be run by some organization, which is often a private company. Maybe the country's oversight over this organization is better than ICANN's oversight over gTLD operators. Maybe it's not. Historically, the worst technical incidents have occurred at ccTLDs.

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

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Post by williamscales »

mikedelfino wrote: post #211
zeristor wrote: post #193

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Maybe it’s just simple word play of “Zoom us” as in call us. As opposed to “Zoom me” which might be just for one person rather than group chat.

Do English speakers pronounce .us domains as dot us instead of dot u s?

It would only be pronounced as "uhhss" as part of a domain hack. Otherwise "you ess". Source: am from USA.

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Post by moomin »

rhubarbtree wrote: post #215
skywhopper wrote: post #210

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

Fair. They are worse.

Especially Skype, which is getting shit down. In favour of Teams, which is so much worse it’s hard to describe.

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Post by racked »

rhubarbtree wrote: post #214
bakuninsbart wrote: post #194

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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.

Why does that make it a good name for video in particular?

Why does it have to be -- ever "googled" something? ;-)

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

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Post by andylynch »

rhubarbtree wrote: post #214
bakuninsbart wrote: post #194

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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.

Why does that make it a good name for video in particular?

Cameras often have zoom lenses for close ups.

Fits great with the idea of bringing people together with video.

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

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Post by voxic11 »

autoexec wrote: post #31
__float wrote: post #25

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What's wrong with Markmonitor? They don't have nearly the customer base of Zoom (where I can relate to any complaints, I'm sure)

They've earned themselves a reputation for sending false DMCA notices. https://www.inquisitr.com/markmonitor-sends-false-copyright-... https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-defeat-false-dmca-tak... https://torrentfreak.com/court-dismisses-charters-claims-of-... https://torrentfreak.com/hbo-wants-google-to-censor-hbo-com-... https://torrentfreak.com/after-4-years-copyright-holders-sti... They haven't even always been…

Can you explain what that last article has to do with MarkMonitor? To me it just sounds like MarkMonitor once bought a company from a law firm which was sued for fraud 5 years after the sale was completed. So it doesn't appear that MarkMonitor was in any way related to the fraud which occurred.

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Post by pasc1878 »

KineticLensman wrote: post #220
Ylpertnodi wrote: post #212

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Dot yoo ess. Source: am European.

Me too: 'you ess' (British)

Noting that we British would always call our country "you kay" so .us would be derived from that. I suspect similar reasoning from Europe.

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Post by sidewndr46 »

eesmith wrote: post #174
rhubarbtree wrote: post #165

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

The Wikipedia editors know, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Communications#Early_year... : > In May 2012, the company changed its name to Zoom, influenced by Thacher Hurd's children's book Zoom City. It cites https://vator.tv/2020-03-26-when-zoom-was-young-the-early-ye... where Jim Scheinman says: > “I loved this fun little book as much as my kids, and hoped to use the name someday for the perfect company that emb…

The reference to "Zoom City" is from an article published in 2020. It seems like a remarkably fitting ret-conning of what is probably a very boring branding decision.
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