Telegram applies for .gram domain for personalized user addresses

Telegram has formally applied for the .gram top-level domain, and if the bid is approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, the platform’s roughly 1 billion users will be able to obtain personalized second-level domains, founder Pavel Durov said on his personal channel. Durov said Telegram usernames such as @durov and @monk could become domains including durov.gram and monk.gram. He added users are also expected to be able to create and host interactive websites directly on Telegram through command inputs.