Quote from: KatherineJ on June 28, 2018, 03:56:14 PM

Quote from: flashbit on June 27, 2018, 05:58:49 PM

Quote from: KatherineJ on June 27, 2018, 02:42:07 PM

Domain buyers already getting ready to cash in, these two redirect to same site. Telegram seem to have bought some domains based on the holding pages and who is. When I saw the .co.uk one on Google I assumed it would be theirs too until I visited it!

www.telegramopennetwork.co.uk
www.telegramopennetwork.blog

how dumb for them not to buy these sort of domains up at the start. Maybe .blog not important but they can't afford not to have domains like .co.uk. guess it will cost them a lot - funny that the owner says he will take payment in fiat or Grams haha

I think they want their own protocol, which doesn't include the www. - see on the whitepaper what they say about dns...

as TOR for example, or IRC. I'm not sure about this, we need more information and most posts on this thread doesn't help us - they come from people who need posts for their bounty.

I don't underestimate the intelligence of the Durov brothers, but maybe it's a mistake like you say, does .uk is so important?

I would say .co.uk obviously not as important as .com, but the UK is one of the larger markets for crypto and telegram...fair amount of influence and money. And both that and .blog would attract a lot of hits via search engines once this project is publicly announced, regardless of Telegram's choice of 'official' site addresses.

Owners of such domains could either try to suggest they are part of the real company and sell fake Grams, they could cover the pages with ads of all kinds to get clicks, or at the very least link to all kinds of negative stuff about telegram. Could be a real problem for the company and if the domains were legally purchased i don't see what they can...perhaps trademark the name and try and get it that way? But as it's not been officially announced yet and these sites were registered near start of the year that probably would be too late.

They have deep enough pockets to buy the domains off anyway after this ICO fundraise. And if the owner really is willing to take grams then it won't cost them real money anyway.

I'm very positive about TON and agree with earlier comments in this thread - if any crypto has the chance to truly go mass market then surely has to be this one. And if they time their entry at the end of this bear market then they could clean up. May not offer the multiplying value that bitcoin has had due to a high initial price and high volume of tokens (5bn I think) but as a bitcoin 2.0 in terms of valuation and volume it has to be the best contender.

As I said maybe they don't care? When you want to download TOR you go to the official website,nowhere else.

Also, for what I read, they don't want GRAM to be speculate and should have enough tokens/money to sell/buy to stabilize it. Don't forget Telegram (and his blockchain) will be given to a charity later.