Thanks for article
@equity78 .
Quite apart from the issue of the domain name, will be interesting to see how the battle for market share between Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Google Meet works out (along with other players in market).
Zoom has a solution that seems to work superbly well across many devices and operating systems. It just works. It also is intuitive, even to those not much into technology experience. My wife often asks me computer related questions. We installed Zoom on her laptop, she uses it daily in a school sponsored reading program with our grandson in grade 1. Neither have needed technical help. I have been impressed. Few things work so smoothly.
I have yet to try Google Meet, but have used Teams a bit. Certainly across different platforms Teams is less consistent and fully-functioned (i.e. some things like chat are different or not present if on Mac vs Windows).
Google Meet appears to be free for up to 100 participants and 60 minute calls. That will make the environment for Zoom making money harder. Apparently the time restriction is not being applied until end of September though.
Zoom was started by an engineering team who wanted a technical experience with a positive user interface. That mindset shows.
As
@NickB mentions some big organizations have restricted Zoom because of concerns over security related issues. I don't know enough to know how serious those are. Clearly from recent statements Zoom realize that is job 1 right now, and their
acquisition this month of Canadian startup Keybase.io shows they are serious.
Maybe somewhat off-topic, but would like to hear
whether domain investors are using the video conferencing tools in ways other than the weekly domain hour(s) meeting. E.g. do people
schedule Zoom with potential client to negotiate a domain name sale? Or maybe just early stage to talk name options?
Bob