| ▲ | stackskipton 6 days ago |
| This smells like something happened with MarkMonitor, they accidently flagged zoom.us as brand spoofing and filed copyright complaint with GoDaddy who runs .us TLD. GoDaddy suspended the domain per the complaint. |
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| ▲ | lolinder 6 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| It's possible, but MarkMonitor is Zoom's registrar, so there are plenty of other ways for a miscommunication between MarkMonitor and GoDaddy to cause this. Copyright complaints would be a more reasonable theory if MarkMonitor were mentioned and didn't have any other involvement. |
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| ▲ | stackskipton 6 days ago | parent [-] | | I guess but if MarkMonitor accidently suspended it, it would be ClientHold but it was widely reported it was showing as ServerHold. ServerHold is used with Registry (GoDaddy in this case) is disabling vs ClientHold is when registrar is pulling the plug (MarkMonitor) So what would have MarkMonitor said to GoDaddy to cause them to ServerHold a domain? | | |
| ▲ | altairprime 6 days ago | parent | next [-] | | At one point on a trip to Hawaii I was detained in my room by hotel security for fifteen minutes after requesting a room key to replace the one I lost. It turns out that they had typo’d 12 into the request type field instead of 1, and type 12 was “Covid lockdown protocol with security enforcement” leftover from 2020 and latent in their systems. Depending on MarkMonitor have chosen to integrate with each other to handle the sort of trademark management that is MarkMonitor’s premium offering, either or both parties could have simply been off-by-one or typo’d in a transaction to cause this. It’s absolutely plausible to create a confusing nightmare outcome with a one-byte error. (And we’re having quite incredible cosmic rays today, so I hope they’re using ECC RAM!) | |
| ▲ | thayne 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Possibly MarkMoniter failed to renew the domain on time? Or there was a miscommunication around payment that led to the domain expiring? | | |
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| ▲ | layman51 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I don’t know if I’m misremembering, but I remember getting automated service emails about how Zoom.us will be a deprecated domain in favor of Zoom.com When this outage happened, I assumed that they finally “made the switch” over but something went wrong. Something I heard is that there was a Twitter account @zoom_us that was also deleted today. |
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| ▲ | Alupis 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| If this is the case, then it seems to be a very clear-cut example as-to why we should reject these sort of automated "take downs". They can and are abused, including copyright violations on Github, YouTube, etc. Since when did we accept, as a society, guilty until proven innocent? I recognize GoDaddy is not the government - but this is unacceptable. A human spending 3 seconds looking at the domain would understand it's a false-positive and should not be removed. |
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| ▲ | selcuka 6 days ago | parent [-] | | > Since when did we accept, as a society, guilty until proven innocent? At least since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. |
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