- U.S. Treasury sanctions on a VPN provider caused a global outage of Telegram's t.me domain on July 14.
- The domain was blocked at OFAC's request by its registrar due to a listed VPN service, t.me/FirstVPNService, used by cybercriminals.
- The blockage likely occurred by mistake, as only the specific channel should have been targeted, but the entire domain was affected.
- Telegram's telegram.me domain remained functional during the outage, and t.me was restored by the afternoon of July 14.