On 2/8/2010 at 7:17 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@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@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.