{"id":629030,"date":"2026-07-14T08:05:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=830961"},"modified":"2026-07-14T08:05:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:05:02","slug":"telegrams-t-me-domain-vanishes-from-global-dns-as-founder-pavel-durov-seems-caught-off-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/telegrams-t-me-domain-vanishes-from-global-dns-as-founder-pavel-durov-seems-caught-off-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram\u2019s t.me Domain Vanishes From Global DNS as Founder Pavel Durov Seems \u201cCaught off Guard\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/nnn90-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Image of Telegram Logo against a blue backdrop.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Telegram\u2019s core shortlink domain, t.me, was placed on \u201cserver hold\u201d by the .me registry on July 13, dropping it from the global domain name system (DNS) and dead-ending every t.me link worldwide. Founder Pavel Durov appeared to learn about the outage in real time. A Registry Kill Switch The domain had been suspended and removed [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram\u2019s core shortlink domain, t.me, was placed on \u201cserver hold\u201d by the .me registry on July 13, dropping it from the global domain name system (DNS) and dead-ending every t.me link worldwide. Founder Pavel Durov appeared to learn about the outage in real time. A Registry Kill Switch The domain had been suspended and removed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":629031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-629030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}