Why don’t some links work on Telegram? The reason these features don’t work in the app

While users can still send and receive messages on the Telegram app, it has suffered a rare outage in which short links have stopped working. According to WHOIS records, Telegram’s core t.me domain has been placed on serverHold. This is a registry-level domain status assigned by the domain registrar that prevents the domain from being activated in the global DNS, stopping t.me links from working worldwide outside the app.

A serverHold is activated in the event of abuse flags, fraud investigations, legal disputes, or security concerns. Currently, there has been no word from Telegram nor the .me registry as to why the domain has been placed on serverHold status along with several other registry-level status flags.

When will links work on Telegram again?

The domain does not appear to have expired, currently that won’t happen until 2035. Likewise, this not a routine server error, something that could be resolved in a matter of minutes or hours.

In order to fix the problem, whatever the underlying reason the domain was place on serverHold status must be resolved first by the domain’s registrant or registrar, something that could take anywhere from hours to days. The domain’s status was updated on July 13, 2026 shortly before 2:25 pm ET.

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