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Incidentally, Zoom seems a terrible name for a video conferencing app - anyone know why they chose it?
It’s all relative. Is “Webex” better? “Skype”? “BlueJeans”??
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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.
Back in the day, wasn't it either Zoom or Hayes?
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Also .us domains don't have who is privacy.
WHOIS privacy isn't a registry-level service. It's a registrar-level service.
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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…
To save people the agony of visiting Wikipedia for themselves to check, changed from Saasbee. Which, good call.
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> The whole point of paying for MarkMonitor is that they're an expensive service for valuable domains A while ago and, out of curiosity, I did a Whois Lookup to see what big tech companies are using as their domain registrar and found that Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Tesla, Netflix and Shopify are all using MarkMonitor. On the other hand Apple uses "Nom-iq Ltd. dba COM LAUDE", Meta (and its children) uses RegistrarSaf…
> COM LAUDE Someone had fun with that one.
To try to convince my employer at the time to drop Zoom, I decided to see how many security vulns I could find in 2-3 hours. Found 12 confirmed bugs in that window using only binwalk and osint. The worst was that I noticed the zoom.us godaddy account password reset email address was the personal gmail account of Eric S Yuan, the CEO. So, I tried to do a password reset on his gmail account. No 2FA, and only needed to…
How long ago was this? A few years ago they were hiring aggressively for security team members in the US, including a dedicated fuzzing team. I’m guessing this was from early on when Zoom was just getting popular?
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They don't use Godaddy directly. Godaddy is the registry for .us. Zoom's registrar is MarkMonitor, who appear to be at fault for this outage.
No, Mark Monitor have requested the correct change (EPP status code `ServerUpdateProhibited), GoDaddy messed it up. (I'm not affiliated with either, but happen to know the technical details of the outage)
Now "ZOOM" was supposedly based in Canada and they were supposedly giving bargain-basement fares to Americans as well, from select origins to select destinations. All I needed to do was to get to Lindbergh Field (San Diego International) and ZOOM Airlines would fly me to London Gatwick. And their aircraft had cute friendly livery with big "ZOOOOOOOOM" lettering on the side. And the price was totally cheap.
Well they did their job fine; I landed in Gatwick, took a train to Heathrow, and flew on Iberia into and back out of Barcelona. Unfortunately, before I departed, my father phoned my fiancée to break the news that "ZOOM Airline" was bankrupt, and all their flights were grounded. They had run out of fuel in Scotland, and nobody would top up the tanks. My return ticket from London to San Diego was worthless.
So Dad puts me on a British Airways flight and I got home safe. But from August 2008, or before, I have harbored a visceral animosity towards any foreign actors named "ZOOM".
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Verbing your nouns is a great way to lose your trademark.
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.