I have already raised this point and emailed you with no reply.
You provide a (nice) API which is very useful for registering domains quickly around drop time. But every single morning at 9.35-9.40 UCT your server goes down for 10 minutes maintenance - right in the middle of the .info drops. Which is annoying to say the least.
That seems like the time our server goes offline for nightly maintenance. Were you running into this issue before March 9? Daylight Savings Time may have shifted the maintenance schedule up an hour in UTC time.