Its serverHold which means the .me registry took this action, not the registrar (GoDaddy).
Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
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Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
#102Telegram 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'm not making an argument about who's right or whether these disputes have any merit, I'm just trying to guess who might have had the inclination and legal resources to make this happen.
Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
#103They'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.
.tg is already used by Togo, although .te is not taken.
two-letter TLDs are reserved for country codes and not available for private use.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which do you recommend?
I would recommend a registrar that would explain to the customer why they would not want a .me domain for anything critical unless the person lives in Montenegro and trust the Government of Montenegro to maintain a good and trust worthy registry. Otherwise just use which ever registrar is cheapest and who you think will handle any quirks or shenanigans that registries may do to domains you own, and which own system a…
What’s with the shade on Montenegro? .me is a perfectly normal domain.
And the government doesn’t even operate the registrar, it’s operated by doMEn d.o.o. which is a Montenegro version of an LLC.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which do you recommend?
I’ve been happy with Gandi.net for years now. They’re based in France.
FYI - Gandi was great, but they got bought by private equity a few years back and the price skyrocketed and service went downhill super fast after the buyout.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would recommend a registrar that would explain to the customer why they would not want a .me domain for anything critical unless the person lives in Montenegro and trust the Government of Montenegro to maintain a good and trust worthy registry. Otherwise just use which ever registrar is cheapest and who you think will handle any quirks or shenanigans that registries may do to domains you own, and which own system a…
What’s with the shade on Montenegro? .me is a perfectly normal domain. And the government doesn’t even operate the registrar, it’s operated by doMEn d.o.o. which is a Montenegro version of an LLC.
ccTLD hacks are both semantically incorrect and geopolitically unstable.
The .io TLD will likely be phased out in the future due to geopolitics, and all the companies who decided it was more important to signal how hacker jargon aware their startup was will have to go through the very difficult process of changing domains.
In order to log into IRS.gov to get a code to pay my USA taxes, I had to verify my USA ID via a private company called ID.me, whose domain name AND company name are now forever tied to the whims of the government of Montenegro.
Re: Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended
#109Yeah,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
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s with the shade on Montenegro? .me is a perfectly normal domain. And the government doesn’t even operate the registrar, it’s operated by doMEn d.o.o. which is a Montenegro version of an LLC.
ccTLD hacks are both semantically incorrect and geopolitically unstable. The .io TLD will likely be phased out in the future due to geopolitics, and all the companies who decided it was more important to signal how hacker jargon aware their startup was will have to go through the very difficult process of changing domains. In order to log into IRS.gov to get a code to pay my USA taxes, I had to verify my USA ID via a…
I mean, the government of Montenegro is a reasonable European democracy on its, admittedly slow, way to join the EU and is a NATO member.
It’s not really any different than this website we are now on being at the whim of the US government.