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Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the z... by dtgriscom on Thursday April 17, 2025 @03:52AM (#43714153)
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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Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the z... by jsheard on Thursday April 17, 2025 @04:01AM (#43714200)
AFAICT they've used that domain since day one, so probably not.
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Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the z... by zeristor on Thursday April 17, 2025 @05:10AM (#43714520)
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.
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Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the z... by mikedelfino on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:24AM (#43715247)
Do English speakers pronounce .us domains as dot us instead of dot u s?
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Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the z... by Ylpertnodi on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:34AM (#43715304)
Dot yoo ess. Source: am European.
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Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the z... by KineticLensman on Thursday April 17, 2025 @08:25AM (#43715780)
Me too: 'you ess' (British)
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Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the z... by pasc1878 on Thursday April 17, 2025 @09:11AM (#43716295)
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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Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the z... by wyclif on Thursday April 17, 2025 @09:19AM (#43716417)
I also say 'dot you ess' and I was born in the USA.
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Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the z... by williamscales on Thursday April 17, 2025 @08:49AM (#43716048)
It would only be pronounced as "uhhss" as part of a domain hack. Otherwise "you ess". Source: am from USA.
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Re:Zoom outage caused by accidental 'shutting down' of the z... by RIMR on Thursday April 17, 2025 @10:05AM (#43717058)
Zoomus
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