Zoom has about 130,000 subdomains. Cisco, established 20 years earlier and operating in the same space and many more, has 45,000.
About 40-50k of Zoom's subdomains are customers. Company.Zoom.Us.
About 5k of the subdomains reference MMR. Likely this means "Meet Me Rooms" which are seen in data centers.
About 200 contain the word tracking, 300 the word face, and 400 the word elasticsearch. Something like 700 contain the word vip. Maybe 1000 gitlab. They really like gitlab! These are not customers again and the whole structure is impressive and strictly followed.
IPA is the most used term after zoom of course. I think it is a reference to "international phonetic alphabet" for the China based engineers. Anita is used around 4K times. Likely this references the CFO since 2018.
Most interestingly, every US state and every Chinese province has about 10-20 subdomains carved out for it.
So xj-restricted.acv.ipa.zoom.us refers to "Xinjiang".
And xz-influxdata.amp.ipa.zoom.us refers to "Tibet".
Finally as a last example "va-accounts.asset2.ipa.zoom.us" refers to Virginia one would assume. All the other states are there. Didn't check other countries though.
Have never worked at like an MPLS company but overall fascistic fastidiously well designed naming schema that they had the discipline to adhere to. These can get out of hand so fast at companies so again cool.
What do they use all of these subdomains for? While it’s interesting that they have so many I’m not sure I’m understanding their purpose beyond the obvious customer subdomains.
About 40-50k of Zoom's subdomains are customers. Company.Zoom.Us.
About 5k of the subdomains reference MMR. Likely this means "Meet Me Rooms" which are seen in data centers.
About 200 contain the word tracking, 300 the word face, and 400 the word elasticsearch. Something like 700 contain the word vip. Maybe 1000 gitlab. They really like gitlab! These are not customers again and the whole structure is impressive and strictly followed.
IPA is the most used term after zoom of course. I think it is a reference to "international phonetic alphabet" for the China based engineers. Anita is used around 4K times. Likely this references the CFO since 2018.
Most interestingly, every US state and every Chinese province has about 10-20 subdomains carved out for it.
So xj-restricted.acv.ipa.zoom.us refers to "Xinjiang".
And xz-influxdata.amp.ipa.zoom.us refers to "Tibet".
Finally as a last example "va-accounts.asset2.ipa.zoom.us" refers to Virginia one would assume. All the other states are there. Didn't check other countries though.
Have never worked at like an MPLS company but overall fascistic fastidiously well designed naming schema that they had the discipline to adhere to. These can get out of hand so fast at companies so again cool.