Last month’s top domain name stories

Telegram’s t.me suspension was never about a URL. It was about jurisdiction: one company, one vanity domain, and a government’s long reach into the DNS root.

• The U.S. move to seize a premium domain quietly restated the obvious: domain names are property, and property can be taken.

• The .web saga dragged on, proving that delegated authority and legal appeals are the slowest form of infrastructure.

• Behind the year’s top stories is the same machinery: control over names is control over traffic, and control over traffic is leverage.

• What looks like a monthly recap is really a ledger of who holds the keys — and who wants them back.