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

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Post by lesostep »

zuzululu wrote: post #116

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

>> they have a new wave of crime from anonymous telegram operators

I love how your solution isn't "country should decide for themselves and pass the law that suits them" but "let people that have nothing to do with that country take something away from them (sidenote: I also don't have nothing to do with that country)".

Drug abuse is a systematic problem, if telegram single-handedly enabling it to alarming rates, the solution should be at least to ban a tech stack. Otherwise it will get replaced in a seconds.

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

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Post by inigyou »

kennywinker wrote: post #207
inigyou wrote: post #178

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so censorship, accident, or censorship. I guess it could be accidental censorship.

Some other legal dispute - trademark law, for example, isn’t censorship. Personal vendetta (i hate frank so i sabotaged his work), is also not censorship. Could also be the result of a hack for ransom, which is also not censorship Anyway, this is dumb. It probably is censorship, but i’m still gonna need a confirmation before i get mad about it.

Trademark law is a censorship law. Censorship based on personal vendetta is censorship.

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

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Post by lolinder »

5701652400 wrote: post #246
lolinder wrote: post #45

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I'd honestly be careful with squarespace. They are owned by private equity, advertise on countless YouTube channels, and at the same time their core market is under a looming threat from the AI companies. You need your domain registrar to be stable and predictable. Their profile is not that.

which one then?

Porkbun has been good to me and a lot of others.

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

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Post by echoangle »

bdamm wrote: post #171
echoangle wrote: post #152

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic Banana republic isn’t specific to US control and it’s actually not that unreasonable to call Russia a banana republic

Because their economy is almost exclusively oil? Quite a few countries of the world would qualify if that's the case.

Yeah, is banana republic meant to be a rare thing by definition?

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

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Post by inigyou »

mfkp wrote: post #124
pixel_popping wrote: post #86

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

how about .to? that's what i'm mainly using for my url shortener/redirects and haven't run into any issues... yet

A recent change in .to management gave it the technical ability to take down domains quickly.

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

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Post by inigyou »

e40 wrote: post #244
qingcharles wrote: post #212

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Their TOS isn't very protective of domains. Tend to disable at the slightest fake email. Namecheap/Spaceship are a little better, IIRC.

Namecheap was recently sold to PE. I had been with them for decades and immediately transferred to Cloudflare. Lessor of evils.

Cloudflare is still a greater evil than Namecheap. Try Porkbun or Dynadot.

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

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Post by inigyou »

SXX wrote: post #236
teddyh wrote: post #231

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None do at present, AFAIK. But ccTLD could do that, if they wanted to; there is no rule against it, unlike the gTLDs.

That's weird there no such zones then. It would be nice to be able to pay for a domain 50 years in advance.

The DNS isn't 50 years old. There's absolutely no certainty your payment for the last year's will mean anything. Also if you're older than 35, you'll probably be dead. If you're not dead you probably won't care about the domain any more. Certainly all current politicians and the current political and economic systems will be dead. It's unclear there will be any reason to still have the domain and that it won't be blocking some innovative economic activity. It's unclear there will still be an internet.

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

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Post by inigyou »

ufmace wrote: post #175
kajman wrote: post #81

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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.

I don't think anyone cares about E2E encryption as much as tech people think. For all of the much-vaunted complains about their lack of it, I am not aware of any proof or credible claims that Telegram the company has ever revealed the contents of non-encrypted messages or group chats. Meanwhile, I don't think any authorities actually care about to what extent E2E Encryption makes it harder for Signal the corporation…

Telegram is in very big trouble all the time for refusal to comply with court orders they're capable of complying with, which is related to E2EE.

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

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Post by inigyou »

glitchy99 wrote: post #32
Tiberium wrote: post #13

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The "serverHold" status is not set by GoDaddy, but by the actual .ME registry https://domain.me/ GoDaddy could apply "clientHold" but not "serverHold"

Weird. The .me registry specifically says there are no restrictions and even advertises Telegram.

Lying in your marketing materials is often useful.
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