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Telegram’s t.me Links Go Offline After Registry Places Domain on serverHold
DomainME said the hold was tied to OFAC compliance after the U.S. Treasury’s sanctions filing included a t.me link.
- On Monday, Telegram's t.me domain went offline, blocking users from accessing shared links to public groups; founder Pavel Durov confirmed the disruption on X.
- The outage stemmed from a "serverhold" block placed on the domain the same day the United States Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned First VPN.
- DomainME, the Montenegro-based registrar, placed the domain "on hold due to the OFAC compliance" after the Treasury's sanctions listing included a link to Telegram's public group using the t.me shortlink.
- Access was restored early on Tuesday; Predrag Leai, the chief executive of DomainME, told TechCrunch the company would issue an official statement shortly.
- U.S. companies, including domain registrars, risk heavy fines if they fail to adhere to sanctions laws; another Telegram domain, telegram.me, remained operational throughout the incident.
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The house t.me stopped opening all over the world, and it became known the evening of July 13. "Durova's Code" turned in...
·Moscow, Russian Federation (the)
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Telegram's t.me domain has been removed from the global DNS system.
·Tehran, Iran (Islamic Republic of)
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The house t.me, which is used for short links, has ceased to work around the world. Because of this, the link in this format does not open in a browser.
·Riga, Latvia
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