Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

whois.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

111–120 of 298 posts

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

#111

Post by einpoklum »

hnlmorg wrote: post #96
kajman wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Signal is already well known to governments. In fact a few years ago there was a report in the UK media about how some governments used signal instead of official channels like email and did so because of Signals disappearing messages feature (ie making those MPs less accountable).

More recently, a Signal chat record leaked, between US national security advisor Mike Waltz, US VP JD Vance and others, regarding the ongoing illegal assassinations in Yemen:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/24/politics/yemen-strikes-jo...

and it didn't leak because of Signal's security, but because an Atlantic maganize journalist was added to the group chat by Waltz.

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

#112

Post by Krutonium »

namegulf wrote: post #109

Yeah,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

serverHold is set by the owner of the TLD, not the registrar.

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

#115

Post by shishcat »

namegulf wrote: post #109

Yeah,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

registry*

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

#116

Post by zuzululu »

i really hope this is it from telegram. its downright causing havoc in countries without the jurisdictional power like korea and japan which have seen insane rise in drug related crime especially in japan they have a new wave of crime from anonymous telegram operators running human cell crime ops

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

#118

Post by inigyou »

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…

Telegram shields its users from such requests.

Other platforms either don't have the requested data (Signal) or willingly hand it over when they get a court order to (Facebook). When Telegram gets a court order it ignores the court order and then makes Pavel Durov hard to physically find and therefore arrest. One can only guess what motivations he has for this.

So courts seek alternative enforcement mechanisms.

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

#119

Post by esseph »

einpoklum wrote: post #111
hnlmorg wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Signal is already well known to governments. In fact a few years ago there was a report in the UK media about how some governments used signal instead of official channels like email and did so because of Signals disappearing messages feature (ie making those MPs less accountable).

More recently, a Signal chat record leaked, between US national security advisor Mike Waltz, US VP JD Vance and others, regarding the ongoing illegal assassinations in Yemen: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/24/politics/yemen-strikes-jo... and it didn't leak because of Signal's security, but because an Atlantic maganize journalist was added to the group chat by Waltz.

We are clear on OPSEC

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

#120

Post by esseph »

RA2lover wrote: post #103
noxvilleza wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

.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.

Not available for private use isn't exactly true...
Post reply on HN