Telegram Applies for .gram Domain to Offer Personal Web Addresses to 1 Billion Users

Telegram has formally applied for the .gram top-level domain as it moves to offer users personal domain names.

Pavel Durov, Telegram’s founder, wrote on X on Aug. 18 that the company had officially submitted the application to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN.

If ICANN approves the application, Telegram’s roughly 1 billion users will be able to use personal domains based on their usernames. A Telegram username such as @durov could become durov.gram, while @monk could become monk.gram.

Users would also be able to create and host interactive websites directly on Telegram through command-based inputs, Durov said.