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Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by kajman »

ilaksh wrote: post #75
anigbrowl wrote: post #65

Telegram is currently the target of legal/regulatory investigations by Russia (alleged extremism), France (likewise), and India (alleged facilitation of national exam leaking/cheating). I'm guessing the latter since it's the most recent and arguably has the most fiscal heft. Also very surprised to see Telegram was reliant on GoDaddy, notorious for its lack of transparency.

But Telegram hasn't engaged in that, some of their users have. I think the issue might be that although Telegram has a lot of abuse takedown activity, they do not permit access or direct action by authorities. If I recall, they have reiterated many times that some level or types of messages always remain private. Maybe that's the issue is that a lot of illicit activity is going on in private channels and whether or n…

I always figured telegram got the screws turned on them all the time because their lack of E2E encryption meant it was viable to demand they proactively police the platform in the first place. Maybe Signal would just be outright blocked in these locales if it was anywhere near as popular, though.

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by cmeacham98 »

lbotos wrote: post #74
ars wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would do something that isn't *.me, since it was them that suspended it.

I think you misunderstood -- OP is running op-s-domain.com/telegramchat -> redirect t.me. They updated op-s-domain.com/telegramchat -> redirect telegram.me.

I think you also misunderstood, they are suggesting OP redirect to a telegram domain that isn't on the .me TLD, as the other .me is potentially at risk of also being taken down.

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by deepspace »

sebastiennight wrote: post #30
SoftTalker wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've never had a problem with Namecheap but I'm not sure they are really any better as I've never had a problem with GoDaddy either.

My understanding is that both GoDaddy and Namecheap used to do domain front running[0] at the time I was registering my first handful of commercial domains, so I've always avoided even using their search engines. I wonder if the practice still exists. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting#Domain_name_fro...

I don't believe Namecheap ever did that, unless that was in the distant past. Never had a problem with them.

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by pixel_popping »

walrus01 wrote: post #80
ars wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would do something that isn't *.me, since it was them that suspended it.

.is might be a choice, since archive.is continues to be available despite many legal threats You don't have to be an Icelandic national to register a .is

.is is a very resilient TLD indeed, and it's well known in some communities.

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by lbotos »

cmeacham98 wrote: post #82
lbotos wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you misunderstood -- OP is running op-s-domain.com/telegramchat -> redirect t.me. They updated op-s-domain.com/telegramchat -> redirect telegram.me.

I think you also misunderstood, they are suggesting OP redirect to a telegram domain that isn't on the .me TLD, as the other .me is potentially at risk of also being taken down.

fair enough -- dunno what domains telegram uses

Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

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Post by yreg »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #36
qurren wrote: post #9

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What’s your beef? The name? Because I’ve been super happy with porkbun but damn, that name… and then the official-sounding ones like network solutions are quite shady. don’t judge a registrar by its name I guess.

Also namecheap sounds shit, but afaik they have good reputation.
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