The dot.gov server has been down all day. It's affecting all whois queries. have brought this to the attention of the domain manager earlier today and was told they were working on it. Did a search on geektools and other systems and you get this as a response. [nic.gov] * System has detected more than 60 whois sessions * * Please try later or... * * Call 1-202-501-6824 and let them know that the * WHOIS service on the NIC.GOV server is failing *