[traditional1]

I can confirm that Lycos (my e-mail) is un-available, and has been for the past 6 hours for sure.

[steveo]

Looks like both use name servers at hotwired.com which are timing out. When I tried to ping hotwired.com I got a 'unable to determine IP address for hotwired.com. Looks like all the ns servers at hotwired are down. Could be a cut fiber cable...