Public t.me links are sometimes indexed, and an indexed link outlives the channel it points at: the result keeps returning for a stage name after the channel has been removed. Submitting those URLs for delisting is a separate request from the copyright notice and has its own outcome.
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Removal route for t.me
Resolved live · no account · nothing uploaded
A notice for t.me goes to a curated route openDMCA already holds.
2 · RDAP abuse contact— silent.rdap.org returns no RDAP service for the .me registry. Probed 2026-09-04.
3 · Fallback address— not needed.Not needed — an earlier rung resolved.
4 · Network and search— runs next.Cloudflare detection over DNS-over-HTTPS, then Google and Bing delisting of every indexed t.me URL.
What happens to what you type: nothing. The domain is matched against openDMCA's routing table in your browser. No request is made to t.me, no page is fetched, and the text is not stored or sent anywhere.
Find which t.me links actually return. Search your stage name and record the t.me URLs that appear. Private channels produce no public link and no index entry, so the list is usually shorter than the number of channels involved.
Include preview pages, not only channel roots. A t.me address can point at a channel or at a single message, and both can be indexed separately. Filing on the channel root leaves indexed message links returning.
Pair each URL with the original work. A copyright delisting request needs the location of your original for each infringing URL. An approximate original is the most common reason a request is refused without a stated reason.
File the second index as well. Submit the same t.me list to Bing, which feeds several other engines. Filing with one engine leaves the links findable through the others.
Re-check by searching, not by reading a receipt. Search the t.me URLs again days later. A processed request and a URL that has left the index are different states, and only the second changes what anyone sees.
Why an indexed t.me link outlives the channel
A search index holds an entry until it is removed or re-crawled. A t.me channel that disappears leaves its entry behind, so the link keeps appearing for a stage name and keeps carrying the description that made it match.
openDMCA files delisting per URL and verifies rather than assuming, with an hourly re-check recording whether a submitted URL has genuinely left the index. Waiting for a natural re-crawl instead is the difference between a result gone this week and one gone eventually.
openDMCA gives the first two hops away: you can open build a delisting request and run it on a URL of your own, with no account and nothing uploaded.
One thing that catches people out on t.me
A delisting request is worth filing on a t.me link even after the channel has already been removed, because the index entry survives the channel and keeps returning for a stage name until it is removed directly or re-crawled. It is the one situation where the delisting request outlives its own target and still does useful work.
Frequently asked questions
The channel is gone but the t.me link still shows in search.
That is the normal lag. The index entry outlives the channel, and a delisting request removes it directly rather than waiting for a re-crawl that may take much longer.
Are private channels indexed?
A private channel has no public t.me address for a crawler to reach, so it produces no index entry. Delisting has nothing to act on there, and the reporting routes are what apply.
Does delisting close the channel?
No. Delisting affects search results only. Closing a channel is the platform's decision, following the copyright notice or the in-app report rather than the search request.
Build a delisting request from your own URL list — free, no account.