As of 3 PM GMT, all Venezuelan domains (.ve) appear to have gone down. It does appear that the sole nameserver responsible for .com.ve is unresponsive:
nslookup -q=ns com.ve
Server: my.router
Address: 192.168.1.1
ve
primary name server = ns1.nic.ve
responsible mail addr = hostmaster.nic.ve
serial = 2012052809
refresh = 900 (15 mins)
retry = 300 (5 mins)
expire = 1296000 (15 days)
default TTL = 3600 (1 hour)
C:\Users\Administrator>ping ns1.nic.ve
Ping request could not find host ns1.nic.ve.
