The short Telegram address t.me stopped working worldwide at midnight and resumed service around 16:00 MSK, reported the monitoring channel.

The outage began shortly after midnight when restrictions from the Montenegrin operator of the .me domain temporarily disconnected it from the global DNS, causing links to chats, channels and profiles to stop opening in regular browsers.
Internally, the messenger continued to resolve t.me links, and the telegram.me domain as well as the telegram.org website remained accessible throughout the incident.
According to experts, the failure illustrates how sanctions enforced by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control can impact critical internet infrastructure even in seemingly neutral top‑level domains.
Users quickly shared screenshots of broken links on platforms like X, noting that while the external web was down, the in‑app navigation worked without issues. The collective reaction was a mix of annoyance over accessibility and relief that core functionality survived.
The registrar Domain.ME explained to Telegram founder Pavel Durov that the suspension was due to a compliance check with OFAC requirements, part of the U.S. Treasury responsible for enforcing sanctions.
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