.cn whois down? [still]

[alpha]

been trying to lookup an idn.cn for the last 2 days.

and keep getting network errors.

anyone else having any luck?

i tried http://www.now.cn/whois/info.net and http://www.cnnic.cn/en/index/index.htm

[thefabfive]

Works for me.

I use http://www.cnnic.net.cn/en/index/

I was getting validation code errors a couple days ago, but clearing the cache fixed that.

[IDNCowboy]

Works for me.

I use http://www.cnnic.net.cn/en/index/

I was getting validation code errors a couple days ago, but clearing the cache fixed that.

hardly ever works

[alpha]

thanks. it does seem to be "working" now. i use the term "working" loosely - that captcha has a mind of its own.

it's virtually impossible to get it right first time, sometimes its the image befoe the one thats shown, sometimes its the one previous to that.

note to self: find out where that fuzzy logic captcha technology came from, IDNF could do with that

[thefabfive]

The page loads slowly and the captcha image changes at least once. You have to wait until the page loads completely and the captcha stops changing before entering. Frustrating definitely.

[alpha]

The page loads slowly and the captcha image changes at least once. You have to wait until the page loads completely and the captcha stops changing before entering. Frustrating definitely.

yeah I tried that. I was checking a few names and found:

no matter how long you waited (and you can sometimes see the white horizontal bar coming down the screen as its refreshing) - it won't take it

even if you hit the Reload Image (and it does generate a different number) - it still won't take it

as you said, in between first landing on the page and hitting Submit, the code can change 3 times. Sometimes entering the 2nd code you see, even though it changes to another, will sometimes get you through.

In summary, it's a retarded piece of crap

[thefabfive]

Clearing the browser cache helped me. No matter what code I enter I still got an error. No problems after clearing the cache.

[cdehoo]

try:
whois.hichine.com
or
www.ename.cn
or
www.66.cn

no need card

[markits]

the ename whois is down. Dynadot is currently unable to transfer domains from ename since the whois can't be checked. This has been over a week now.