.ve WHOIS Down?

Tue Feb 9 17:46:19 UTC 2010

>>> On 2/8/2010 at 7:17 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us> wrote:
> On 02/08/10 17:13, Crist Clark wrote:
>> For want of a better place to ask, I'm wondering if anyone monitoring
>> this list might know what is up with the registro.nic.ve web site.
>> The WHOIS at www.nic.ve refers to that site, and it appears to be down
>> (for me and downforeveryoneorjustme.com too). Doing old fashioned
>> native WHOIS isn't working any better.
> 
> Have you tried the contact listed at 
> http://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/ve.html by any chance?
> 
> 
> Doug

This,

  450 4.1.1 <dmorales at cnti.gob.ve>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table

Did not bode well for success via that channel. Shoulda mentioned
that. And I should drop a courtesy note to the admin contact that
the technical contact isn't working. Thanks for reminding me.