Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended

Post by inigyou » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 12:09 PM UTC

wwalexander wrote: post #108

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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…

Post by codedokode » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC

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registrars are bound by the political whims of those that allow them to exist there have been multiple domains that have been shut down at the behest of certain governments even when its well beyond their jurisdiction kiwi farms and 4chan are relatively harmless compare to what Telegram enables yet kiwi farms was taken offline at the behest of a political camp that has certain opinions about very basic stuffs that sh…

> kiwi farms and 4chan are relatively harmless compare to what Telegram enables yet kiwi farms was taken offline at the behest of a political camp that has certain opinions about very basic stuffs that shouldn't even be grounds to be considered. Literally what the fuck is this take? Kiwifarms' central purpose for existing is to organize doxxing and harassment efforts. It has harassed multiple people into committing s…

Post by grayhatter » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 1:22 PM UTC

shishcat wrote: post #234

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> the Montenegrin government is NOT at fault Who gave management of the TLD to foreign interests? Montenegrin government.

You're right, their fault is not choosing to manage it themselves

Post by grayhatter » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 1:25 PM UTC

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And end-to-end encryption not supported on web client and doesn't sync properly between devices. Useless.

>> doesn't sync properly between devices which is good, actually. We don't want a way through which a server could tell a new device all the information it needs to decrypt messags

Post by FabCH » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 1:32 PM UTC

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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.

The biggest difference is the role of ICANN and their willingness to regulate the management of a TLD. With ccTLD they have an official policy to be hands off and not dictate what a country will do with their top level domain. If the US government would start to mess with Verisign and how the registry handles domain, then ICANN is within their own policy to just move it somewhere else. The government of Montenegro co…