Zoom outage: Video conferencing platform down globally for hours, now finally back online
Popular video conferencing tool Zoom, which is used by 300 million users daily, went down early on Wednesday, sparking panic around the world.
After around 3 hours, the platform finally came back online.
“All Zoom services have been restored,” Zoom said in a statement.
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Early on Thursday, Zoom had struggled to determine what has caused the interruption to its service.
“We continue to investigate the domain name resolution issues on the zoom.us domain that is affecting multiple services,” it said.
This issue started at around 4:30am AEST, mainly causing issues for international users.
An enormous amount of businesses use Zoom to connect employees when the work from home.
