Telegram Applies For .gram Domain To Enable Custom Website Creation For 1 Billion Users
If you’ve been on the Internet for any amount of time at all, then you should already be familiar with top-level domains (TLD). That’s the .com at the end of a website’s address, although there are quite a few flavours of TLDs by now, including the more unusual options like .art, .pizza, .tech, and the […] The post Telegram Applies For .gram Domain To Enable Custom Website Creation For 1 Billion…
In an X post, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced that the company has submitted an application for the .gram top-level domain (TLD) to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). If approved, Telegram's 1 billion users could utilize their own second-level domains, such as @durov mapping to durov.gram. The platform would also enable users to generate interactive custom websites, hosted by Telegram, utilizing prompts that suggest an AI component.
Durov did not mention this, but acquiring the .gram TLD could resolve issues like the recent 19-hour outage of t.me shortlinks due to a serverHold block placed on the .me TLD, which Telegram does not own. Telegram must successfully obtain the domain, as ICANN concluded its round of generic TLD applications last week, with only a few months until the final list is disclosed. Additionally, Link Freedom Group is also in the race for the .gram TLD.
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