.VE Domains down

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

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        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.