Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended (whois.com)

Seems to be working fine? What does suspended imply here?

Any explanation?

I stored all of my user images links with t.me and on my telegram mini app all users profile don't show the image. Switching to telegram.me

This is what the problem is with DNS.

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I don't understand I visited the whois site and it seems all it's fine but I don't know if this match with the following cases.

- The site was suspended but now it's ok - The site was not suspended - There is other information about telegram suspended

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Direct link to the registry to verify the domain status (JSON): https://rdap.identitydigital.services/rdap/domain/t.me, Ctrl+F for "server hold"

Of course we launched our Telegram channel just this weekend, so I am feeling pretty happy that I enforced a 15-year old SOP that says "never email links to 3rd-party domains ; always use a redirect"...

Swapping the redirect now for telegram.me, which hopefully won't go down simultaneously

serverHold means like "suspicious activity, domain is administratively held and taken off dns"

You can read an explanation of the status codes on the icann website.

The explanation for clientRenewProhibited was interesting:

"This status code tells your domain's registry to reject requests to renew your domain. It is an uncommon status that is usually enacted during legal disputes or when your domain is subject to deletion."

Similar language for some of the other statuses like serverDeleteProhibited.

https://www.icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited

We only recently started moving the Functional Programming India community from Telegram to Zulip. That decision is looking better and better!

someone enforcing a min character policy on them?

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I went here for an IP to write in /etc/hosts and no one has posted it yet :(

Didn't t.me also support showing previews of entire channels? Perhaps they got hit with a take-down of sorts due to content (e.g., CSAM) on any particular channel?

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.

I can't believe they use GoDaddy as a registrar.

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They'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.

NEVER use godaddy!

centralized dns is always going to give some people headaches, but works for 99.9% of the rest of the people

Its serverHold which means the .me registry took this action, not the registrar (GoDaddy).