TechU.S. Treasury sanctions on a VPN service knock out Telegram’s short-link domain worldwide

Sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasury Department caused the t.me domain to suffer a worldwide outage on July 14, according to the author of the Telegram channel teleLakel. The author said they obtained an official response from Identity Digital, the company responsible for operating the .me top-level domain. The disruption affected Telegram’s short-link domain globally. The report links the outage to U.S. Treasury sanctions on a VPN service.

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