Florida A&M University was among stakeholders nationwide affected by a significant Zoom outage, that disrupted digital operations and led to the rescheduling of critical meetings, including FAMU’s Board of Trustees session.
The outage, which began at 11:25 a.m. and lasted nearly two hours, stemmed from a rare domain issue involving Zoom’s domain name system (DNS) registration. This system allows users to get to websites and other internet resources.
According to a status update from Zoom, the issue originated from miscommunication between Markmonitor, which manages Zoom’s domain registrations, and GoDaddy Registry, the operator of the “.us” domain, which led to GoDaddy mistakenly blocking the zoom.us domain…