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Posted by Tiberium 5 hours ago

Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended(www.whois.com)
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bryant 3 hours ago|
They're in a position to get their own TLD (e.g .tgrm - edited from .tg); they should probably do this and run their own supporting infrastructure for it at this point.
noxvilleza 3 hours ago|
.tg is already used by Togo, although .te is not taken.
RA2lover 2 hours ago|||
two-letter TLDs are reserved for country codes and not available for private use.
esseph 2 hours ago||
Not available for private use isn't exactly true...
booi 1 hour ago||
which 2 letter TLDs are not controlled by states?
KomoD 47 minutes ago|||
Well, almost all of them are ultimately controlled by the nations, but there are quite a few that private companies operate because they've paid the nation to gain control.

But then there's .io (and a few others: .ac, and previously .sh, .tm) where they were actually delegated to a British guy and are now controlled by the private company he started. And according to the British government, they have no agreement with the company, and they receive no revenue from the domain registrations.

esseph 14 minutes ago||||
You changed the topic.

I said available for private use.

shishcat 1 hour ago||||
.eu :troll:
fragmede 1 hour ago|||
Supposedly none because they're only given to states, but there're a few that have some murky administrative situations.
namegulf 2 hours ago||
Yeah,a serverHold is placed by the Registrar.

It could be for a lot of reasons:

- spam, phishing or malware distribution

- contact verification issues

- trademark, copyright or cybersquatting legal issues

- or sometimes even errors or registrar transfer issues

It is a valuable and important domain for TG, most likely they'll resolve it soon

Krutonium 2 hours ago||
serverHold is set by the owner of the TLD, not the registrar.
shishcat 2 hours ago||
registry*
Tiberium 4 hours ago||
Direct link to the registry to verify the domain status (JSON): https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/t.me, Ctrl+F for "server hold"
dgellow 5 hours ago||
Seems to be working fine? What does suspended imply here?
Tiberium 4 hours ago|
It might be working fine for you if the DNS server you're using hasn't propagated this change yet. The Google DNS server has: https://dns.google/query?name=t.me&rr_type=A&ecs=

Suspended means the "serverHold" status. I haven't found any official blog post/announcement yet, but the status is unambiguous, and the fact that it happened to one of the Telegram's main short links means that it might be related to legal matters.

yakohere 4 hours ago||
I stored all of my user images links with t.me and on my telegram mini app all users profile don't show the image. Switching to telegram.me
ars 4 hours ago||
That's not likely to help, it was the .me people that suspended it, they will likely do the same with telegram.me
yakohere 4 hours ago||
for a second I thought i was hacked
NDlurker 4 hours ago||
Any explanation?
orliesaurus 3 hours ago||
centralized dns is always going to give some people headaches, but works for 99.9% of the rest of the people
withinrafael 4 hours ago||
Didn't t.me also support showing previews of entire channels? Perhaps they got hit with a take-down of sorts due to content (e.g., CSAM) on any particular channel?
monkeywork 4 hours ago|
someone enforcing a min character policy on them?
shishcat 4 hours ago|
No. There are still many 1 char .ME domains available, and they've always costed an high price. https://imgur.com/a/0NL7oA6
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