A US Sanction, a Montenegrin Domain, and Why Every t.me Link Went Dark

Every link that begins with t.me stopped working around the world on Monday, July 13, when Telegram’s short-link domain was placed in serverHold at the .me registry, a status applied at the registry level that removes a domain from the global DNS entirely. Browsers now return NXDOMAIN for t.me, as if it had never existed, which breaks every invite, group, and channel link that … Continue reading A US Sanction, a Montenegrin Domain, and Why Every t.me Link Went Dark