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Según los últimos datos del 18 julio, 2026, el canal mantiene una actividad estable. En los últimos 30 días la variación de miembros fue de -463, y en las últimas 24 horas de 4, conservando un alto alcance.
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The .me registry commented on the suspension of the t.me domain
A representative of the .me domain zone administration commented on Twitter about the situation regarding the ban of the t.me domain, which belongs to Telegram:
The .ME Registry works closely with law enforcement to monitor and mitigate issues across the .ME domain in accordance with applicable laws, including sanctions requirements. On 13 July, First VPN Service (1VPNS) was included as a sanctioned entity by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. A Telegram channel using the t.me domain was among 1VPNS identified infrastructure. Accordingly, the t.me domain was suspended. On 14 July, Telegram provided confirmation that it had removed its links and affiliations with 1VPNS. Once the confirmation was reviewed and verified, the suspension was removed from the t.me domain. We appreciate Telegram’s prompt cooperation in resolving this matter.As a reminder, on July 13, the .me registry disabled the DNS records for the t.me domain without any public statements from the zone administration or Telegram. On July 14, Identity Digital support explained the ban as compliance with OFAC requirements, and a link to a Telegram channel was found in the service's sanctions lists, which the messenger soon deleted, after which the domain was restored. The .me zone is allocated to the government of Montenegro, but on its behalf, the infrastructure is managed by a joint venture between Identity Digital, GoDaddy, and the local company ME-net. #outages #bans
| 2 |  Fullscreen Rich Text Editor, Communities, New GIF Search, and Ephemeral Messages
Telegram for Android and iOS updated to version 12.9, while Telegram Desktop updated to version 7.0. In its July update, Telegram brings a much more extensive variety of text formatting options, communities, and much more:
• Advanced Text Editor: Users can now send Rich Formatting messages from the new full-screen text editor. It includes many styling options: headings, tables, lists, quotes, LaTeX math formulas, code blocks, and expandable spoilers. It also allows users to mix photos and videos right in the middle of messages by creating collages or carousel slideshows.
The editor is available under 📎 Attach › Article. Alternatively, in mobile apps you can tap the ↖ icon above the “Send” button. The full-screen editor allows users to send messages that are up to 32,768 characters long.
Most of the key features of the full-screen editor are only available to Premium users, although the full-screen UI itself can be used for free.
• Communities: Organize communities that bring theme-related chats, channels, or even bots closer together. You can't add big entities, though: Telegram limits chats and channels by their member count. The @tginfo editors are still researching the limitations of this feature.
Make sure not to confuse communities with forums: each chat and channel remains independent, while users can view the list and join each separately.
Community chats can be visible to all members or be hidden, in which case only community admins and the members of the hidden chat can see it. Community chats and channels can merge into a single item in the chat list — this is controlled by the community admins.
• Ephemeral messages for bots: Bots and users can now message and reply to each other privately even in the middle of a group chat — such messages are visible only to the specific recipient and the bot that sent them. Ephemeral commands and replies to them are marked with a special 👁 crossed-out eye icon.
When a command is ephemeral, the user's initial message remains fully invisible to all members and bots, which allows confidential interactions to take place even in public spaces. Besides, such messages will be invisible if you log into your account from a new device.
• Updated GIF Search: The GIF panel now searches across 350 million GIF animations in 36 languages. The search engine works thanks to Telegram's indexing of widely shared, publicly available GIFs using the in-house Cocoon AI project. Alas, Telegram doesn't clarify what “publicly available” entails.
The change was caused by Google shutting down access to its Tenor GIF library. Telegram claims the new GIF search is private and doesn't depend on third-party services, and adds that it works much faster than before.
Article: telegram.org/blog/communities-editor-invisible-messages/
Download the update
• Android: Google Play, APK from the official website or verified channel.
• iOS: App Store.
• Windows/macOS/Linux: official website or GitHub.
• Windows: Microsoft Store.
• Linux: Flathub or Snapcraft.
#update #Android #iOS #Desktop | 5 513 |
| 3 |  Exclusive Access to New Bot API Hosting
Using the official @ContestBot, the messenger team is sending service notifications to some winners of past Telegram contests.
People who distinguished themselves in the contests are invited to join a private test of a new Bot API paradigm — Telegram Serverless. It will allow developers to launch and maintain Telegram bots and Mini Apps on Telegram servers, without deploying their own infrastructure.
“As a winner of a previous Telegram competition, you are invited to exclusively test Telegram's new Bot API. It allows you to run your bots — including their code and databases — directly on Telegram's infrastructure, without using your own servers”, says the service message.
Unusually, the invites are sent not only to developers who participated in software development contests, but also to winners in creative competitions.
You can learn more about Telegram Serverless and explore the docs on the official website. Keep in mind that the new API is currently not available to the general public.
#BotAPI | 2 859 |
| 4 | The t.me Domain Has Been Restored by yhe .me Registry
Checks by the @tginfo editors show that the .me zone's main server has returned the DNS records for the t.me domain.
Since DNS records are cached at the level of various DNS services and providers, it may take up to 24 hours for service to be restored on users' devices.
#outages #bans | 8 703 |
| 5 | Telegram Is Still Working on Restoring the t.me Domain
The t.me domain is still down for users worldwide, as it was disabled by the administration of the .me domain zone. The messenger's team has not commented on the matter.
As a temporary measure, users are advised to replace t.me links with telegram.me or telegram.dog — the messenger's official domains.
The @tginfo editors note that Instagram blocks links to telegram.me in profiles, but links to telegram.dog work.
Shortly after the news about the domain being disabled, Telegram began replacing t.me links in Telegram apps and on the official telegram.org website. Pavel Durov attempted to contact the .me registry administration via their official Twitter account.
Possible reason for the block
The .me zone belongs to Montenegro, and the infrastructure is managed by a joint venture of Identity Digital, GoDaddy, and the local company ME-net.
The owner of the TeleLakel channel received a response from Identity Digital's support team, which claims that the domain was disabled due to the “need to comply with OFAC-related requirements”.
OFAC is a division of the US Department of the Treasury that administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions.
OFAC has not added Telegram to its sanctions lists. However, an action statement dated July 13, 2026, regarding newly sanctioned companies mentions a service called "FIRST VPN SERVICE". Users noticed that one of the links to its website is a Telegram channel address on the t.me domain.
This could mean that the .me domain operator saw the t.me domain in the sanctions lists and quickly blocked it without further research.
The @tginfo team noticed that this morning the messenger deleted the Telegram channel that was mentioned in this sanctions list. It is unknown whether this channel was actually the reason for the block, or if Telegram did this on their own as a precaution.
A popular rumor about the reason for the block
A version is spreading in the community that the t.me domain was revoked because the official Telegram Twitter account joked about a September 9th terrorist attack.
The @tginfo editors consider this version unlikely: if it were true, the .me domain zone administration would likely have blocked all Telegram domains, including telegram.me. Furthermore, the published image was not a joke invented by the company itself, but one of the most popular entries submitted by users as part of a contest.
#outages #bans | 3 554 |
| 6 | The .me registry has blocked the t.me domain
Telegram users worldwide have encountered an outage: short t.me links have stopped opening in regular browsers. The problem affects users in the entire world.
At the same time, within the mobile and desktop Telegram clients themselves, clicks on links are processed correctly, and redirects work without any problems. As a temporary alternative for posting on external resources, you can use telegram.me links.
Technical details
At the moment, the exact causes of the incident remain unknown.
According to WHOIS data, the t.me domain has been completely removed from the DNS zone by the administration of the .me domain registry.
This status is set not by the registrar (GoDaddy), but directly by the main operator of the domain zone — the Montenegrin company doMEn d.o.o., which manages the entire .me zone. This organization is a joint venture of Identity Digital, GoDaddy, and ME-net.
#outages #bans | 14 766 |
| 7 |  ⭐ Advanced Text Editor Is Already in Beta
Users with a Telegram Premium subscription and a Beta version of the Telegram app can now send Rich Formatting messages from the new full-screen text editor.
It includes many styling options: headings, tables, LaTeX math formulas, code blocks, block quotes, expandable spoilers, collages, carousel slideshows, and more. We provide more details about the new editor UI in our initial post.
In the past few weeks, the feature only worked on the test server, but is now available to everyone with a Premium subscription. To try the feature at this stage, you must use the Beta versions of the Telegram apps: version 12.9 if you're on mobile (Telegram for Android and Telegram for iOS), or version 6.9.4 of Telegram Desktop.
Beta versions of the Telegram apps:
• Android: official channel
• Telegram Desktop (Windows/macOS/Linux): official website
• iOS: not available for new testers at the moment.
The editor is available under 📎 Attach › Article. Alternatively, in mobile apps you can tap the ↖ icon above the “Send” button.
Subscribe to @betainfo — our second channel. There, our team shares all the new features discovered in the Telegram beta versions.
#Android #iOS #Desktop #Beta | 5 253 |
| 8 |  Communities Are Now Being Tested in Telegram
In Telegram beta for Android, version 12.9, users can now organize communities that bring theme-related chats closer together.
The details:
• Chats Only: At the moment, only chats can be added to communities.
• How to Join: Telegram treats you as a member of a community if you join any chat linked to that community.
• What This Offers: If a chat is linked to a community, this is highlighted on the chat's profile page. From there, members can navigate to other chats in the community. Members can view the list of all “visible” chats in the community and join them.
• Chats Stay Independent: Telegram won’t add you to other chats in the community automatically. Different owners can offer to add their chats to a community.
• Can Merge Visually: Community chats can display separately or merge into a single item. This behavior is controlled by community admins using the “Show as One Chat” toggle. When it’s active, the community looks similar to forums, but each topic is instead an independent chat you can join.
• Hidden Chats: A chat can be added to a community with “hidden” visibility. A hidden chat can be seen only by those invited to it separately. This is similar to general and hidden channels in Discord servers. Members of the hidden chat can navigate into the community, while other community members can’t see the hidden chat.
• If We Should Expect Channels: The app code mentions adding channels, but the feature is unavailable, so it’s not clear whether it will be added in the future.
Creating communities is available only on the test server at the moment. You can add your group chat to a community in chat settings—just tap the “Add Group to a Community” option.
Subscribe to @betainfo — our second channel. There, our team shares all the new features discovered in the Telegram beta versions.
#Android #Beta | 12 743 |
| 9 |  Extended Text Editor in Telegram
In the beta version of Telegram for iOS, build 12.9.0 (33214), the “AI editor” button was replaced with the Markdown editor launcher.
When tapped, the button expands the message input field to the full screen height, turning it into a full-fledged article editor.
For context, support for extended rich text messages appeared in the Telegram 12.8 update. It includes many text styling options: headings, tables, LaTeX math formulas, code blocks, block quotes, expandable spoilers, collages, carousel slideshows, and more.
Subscribe to @betainfo — our second channel. There, our team shares all the new features discovered in the Telegram beta versions.
#iOS #Beta | 8 392 |
| 10 |  Telegram Is Banned in India, Deleted from App Stores, Suffered a Global Outage
The Indian government ordered a temporary ban on Telegram due to mass leaks of NEET-UG exam questions. However, a local telecom‘s attempt to restrict access led to interceptions far beyond the country. Editors at @tginfo explain how local censorship turned into a global outage.
What Happened in India
The formal reason for the ban was leaked questions for the national medical exam in Telegram channels. Currently, the official Telegram client has been removed from the Indian App Store and Google Play storefronts.
Pavel Durov points out that this move punishes 150 million users in India, while the leaks simply migrated to a different app, and that Telegram cooperated with regulators by deleting “hundreds of channels sharing leaked exam materials and related scams in India”. The CEO also adds that the messenger team has “been making the ‘edited’ label more visible to prevent backdating scams”, although it is not clear whether this change hasn't shipped yet or is some local change that our editors couldn‘t confirm independently. The “edited” indicator changes are said to be done to fight backdating scams.
For context, India is one of the biggest Telegram markets. The Indian government tried to pressure Telegram before: in 2022, a court demanded the disclosure of pirate channel owners‘ personal data. At that time, Telegram only complied on paper, stating that it didn‘t store the requested data on its servers. It is clear that this time the government is trying to act with more force.
From a Local Ban to a Global Outage
Trying to restrict Telegram inside the country, an Indian telecom company used a BGP routing hijacking trick.
• The Internet is made up of many interconnected networks that tell each other the data paths using the BGP protocol.
• An Indian telecom company announced to the whole world that it owns Telegram's IP addresses, forcing part of the global traffic to be sent through the false route, which blocks access to the messenger.
• Since many service providers around the world still don‘t verify the authenticity of the routes they receive, the false routes spread around the globe.
As a result, connectivity issues could be observed even outside India, including regions like the UAE. Similar incidents happened before: for example, in 2023, the Iraqi government used a similar trick to ban Telegram.
Industry experts point out that the Indian telecom even got into a brief network war with Telegram, in which one company tried to overwrite the opponent‘s routing directions. Pavel Durov announced that Reliance stopped malicious routing four hours after his post.
Erroneous Accusations Against Meta Trying to Blame for All Their Problems
Pavel Durov called the service provider‘s actions intentional sabotage and assumed that it might be part of the competitive war that WhatsApp is leading against Telegram, based on a claim that Reliance is partially owned by Meta (parent company of WhatsApp and Facebook).
Despite this, community and media research shows that Pavel Durov confused two companies. The network system that was hijacking the traffic is owned by Reliance Communications, an old telecom asset midway through bankruptcy, while Meta invested in a completely unrelated company — Jio Platforms (which also owns Reliance Jio, a large Indian service provider).
The theory about WhatsApp‘s corporate conspiracy couldn‘t be backed by any technical data. It is likely that the global traffic hijacking was caused by incompetence among the engineers at the Indian company responsible for configuring the hardware to block Telegram. It is not the first time that Pavel Durov has publicly accused WhatsApp of attacking Telegram, explaining unfavorable events with conspiracy theories.
#India #censorship #outages | 9 533 |
| 11 |  Rich Text Formatting is Coming To Users Too
On his Twitter account, Pavel Durov announced that extended Markdown formatting — tables, headers, formulas, task lists, and expandable quotes — will be available not only for bots, but for regular users as well. According to the founder of the messenger, everything will be tested on bots first:
Planned for later this month, but need to test everything on bots first
You can explore how the formatting works in the interactive demo: @RichTextDemoBot.
#bots | 7 278 |
| 12 |  Telegram for Android and iOS Got a 12.8 Feature Upgrade
The June update resurrected the smartwatch apps and added even richer text formatting for bots.
• Telegram for Smartwatches: After many years, the messenger brought its smartwatch apps back for both Apple Watch and Android Wear OS (we fellow Pebble users sob in the corner).
The watch apps support basic features like sending text and voice messages, and viewing media attachments and video messages.
• Dozens of New Rich Text Options: This update allows Telegram bots to send more structured Markdown messages. The supported formats include all sorts of heading options, tables, blocks and spoilers, LaTeX math formulas, to-do checkbox lists, and any attachments in the middle of message text, including collages and carousel slideshows.
You can explore the new formatting in the interactive demo available at @RichTextDemoBot.
According to Pavel Durov's post on Twitter, rich formatting for regular users is planned for later this month, as the team needs to "test everything on bots first".
• Quick Browser Picker: You can now choose to open an external link in Telegram's built-in browser or vice versa, no matter what your settings are, by holding the link down.
You can now also specify site exceptions to your current settings, so if you have the built-in browser off, you can select which websites will always open in it, or, if you still have it enabled, you can choose which links will always open in the default browser app.
• Bots Can Captcha Users Before They Even Join the Chat: Admins can now assign Guardian Bots that will process join requests. When a user attempts to join such a chat, a Web App is launched instantly, where verification takes place. For example, it could be a quiz, a Cloudflare Turnstile checkbox, or a form to write an essay the chat owner has due tomorrow.
Other updates:
• Android got an app bar design refresh to more closely match the iOS app design (just in time for when Apple reverted a lot of the top floating panels nonsense in iOS 27).
• Poll options can now include links.
• The built-in Telegram browser now supports previewing .md pages
Article: https://telegram.org/blog/watch-apps-and-more/
Download the update
• Android: Google Play, APK from the official website or verified channel.
• iOS: App Store.
#update #Android #iOS | 6 355 |
| 13 |  Telegram for Android and iOS updated to version 12.7
In the May update, the app received a number of useful tools aimed at combating vote manipulation in polls and reaction spammers in groups.
• Custom styles for the AI editor: Telegram now lets you create your own styles within the AI-powered editor. Simply come up with a name, pick an icon from custom emojis, and write a prompt for the language model.
Finished styles can be shared with other users — when opening the link, they'll see examples of how the style transforms text. Creators can also choose to display a link to their profile in the style preview window.
• New poll tools: Administrators can now restrict voting to subscribers who joined the channel at least 24 hours ago. They can also set geographic restrictions, allowing only users from specific countries to participate in a poll.
• Removing reactions in groups: Group admins with the "Delete messages" permission can now remove reactions to any message. To do so, open the full reactions list and long-press the user.
It is also possible to restrict reactions in group chats — either for all members or for a specific user.
• Business bots for all users: Telegram now allows any user to connect business bots to their account, even without Telegram Premium. These bots can automatically handle chats and interact with customers.
Since the launch of Telegram Business in 2024, this feature had been available exclusively to Premium subscribers.
Other changes
• An option to send scheduled messages silently has been added.
• Markdown files (.md) up to 64 KB now open in Instant View mode.
• Poll statistics are now available for polls with at least 100 votes.
• Bots that power automated tools and AI assistants in Telegram can now be invoked directly from the message input field (guest mode support for bots).
Article: telegram.org/blog/ai-bot-revolution-11-new-features/
Download the update
• Android: Google Play, APK from the official website or verified channel.
• iOS: App Store.
#update #Android #iOS | 6 390 |
| 14 |  Telegram Info English: Passkeys in Third-Party Telegram Clients
Instructions describing how Passkey authorization works for third-party clients have appeared in the Telegram API documentation.
The main caveat of this new feature is that Passkeys will not be universal. You will not be able to log into the official Telegram app using a passkey created in a third-party client (and vice versa).
As a reminder, late last year Telegram added support for Passkeys — a convenient and secure way to log into your account using biometrics or a PIN code without needing SMS. In our FAQ at the time, we clarified that this option was only available in official Telegram clients.
💬 You can only use Passkeys to log into an existing account. Creating a new account still requires receiving an SMS code.
How This Will Work
Now, developers of alternative clients have the opportunity to implement this feature, but with a significant limitation:
Passkeys only work in the app where they were created. A Passkey from the official Telegram app will not work for a third-party client, and a key from a third-party app cannot be used in either the official Telegram app or any other unofficial builds.
Why Is This Happening?
This kind of isolation is not an artificial restriction imposed by Telegram, but rather a limitation of the Passkeys technology itself, which prohibits using keys on third-party websites and apps to protect against phishing.
The @tginfo editors note that the introduction of Passkeys support for third-party apps is a positive sign. Despite the technically inevitable fragmentation of keys, Telegram is not leaving users of alternative clients without modern security methods, providing them with a reliable alternative to OTP over SMS, which is expensive and sometimes unavailable in countries where Telegram is banned.
#security #authorization #passkey | 7 801 |
| 15 |  British Regulator Ofcom Launches Investigation into Telegram
The British communications regulator Ofcom has launched an investigation into Telegram regarding its compliance with obligations to combat illegal content under the local Online Safety Act 2023.
According to Reuters, the investigation was prompted by data from the Canadian Centre for Child Protection regarding the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on the platform, as well as the regulator's own assessment.
If violations are found, platforms could face fines of up to £18 million or 10% of their global turnover.
Telegram's Position
• The messenger "categorically" denies Ofcom's accusations.
• The company claims that since 2018, the public distribution of CSAM on the platform has been "virtually eliminated" thanks to the work of automatic detection algorithms.
• Telegram stated they are surprised by the investigation and concerned that it might be "part of a broader attack on online platforms that defend freedom of speech and the right to privacy".
• A day earlier, Pavel Durov noted that "protecting children" has become a standard PR move for lawmakers to gain control over media narratives.
Context
This is not Telegram's first clash with regulators over CSAM. In February 2025, the Australian regulator eSafety fined the messenger $600,000 for delaying a response to a similar request. In response, the company abandoned its usual passive stance, moved to active legal defense, and sued Australia, challenging the legality of the fine.
At the end of 2024, Telegram officially agreed to cooperate with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) — one of the key organizations maintaining CSAM signature databases. Our team has also extensively analyzed Telegram's internal moderation processes based on reports for eSafety: the disclosed documents reveal that photos and videos in all private groups and channels on the platform are automatically scanned against known illegal materials.
Recently, the UK has been consistently ramping up pressure on social media. Earlier this year, to comply with local legislation, Telegram already had to launch an experimental facial age verification system for British users.
It is worth noting that in recent years, under the banner of child protection, European countries have been increasingly pushing requirements that could violate privacy of communications and live. For example, due to requirements from this same Ofcom, Apple was forced to disable E2E encryption for iCloud backups, and the European Union is developing the EU Chat Control law, which is similar to the British OSA in its invasiveness.
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