A domain used by the messaging app Telegram mysteriously dropped offline on Monday, with the app’s founder, Pavel Durov, saying in an X post that t.me links had “stopped working.”
The outage prevented users from accessing the t.me domain shortlink, used by the messaging app to allow users to share one-click links for joining public groups.
The domain is now back online, according to the Montenegro-based domain registrar DomainME, which manages the .me top-level domain.
“The t.me domain is back online. We will be issuing an official statement shortly,” said Predrag Lešić, the chief executive of DomainME, in an email to TechCrunch.
In a post on X responding to Durov, DomainME said that Telegram’s t.me domain was “on hold due to the OFAC compliance, but it is back online now.” OFAC refers to the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, which imposes economic sanctions on overseas companies and individuals who pose economic national security risk to the United States.
