Telegram’s shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension
Telegram's t.me shortlink domain was temporarily suspended due to a 'serverhold' related to U.S. Treasury OFAC compliance. The domain was restored after the registrar clarified the compliance status.
Why it matters
This incident highlights the power of U.S. sanctions and domain registrars to disrupt global communication platforms.
A domain used by the messaging app Telegram mysteriously dropped offline on Monday, with the app’s founder, Pavel Durov, saying in an X post that t.me links had “stopped working.”
The outage prevented users from accessing the t.me domain shortlink, used by the messaging app to allow users to share one-click links for joining public groups.
The domain is now back online, according to the Montenegro-based domain registrar DomainME, which manages the .me top-level domain.
“The t.me domain is back online. We will be issuing an official statement shortly,” said Predrag Lešić, the chief executive of DomainME, in an email to TechCrunch.
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