mnic.mu is the web site for the "Mauritian National Identity Card" according to a search engine.
The Whois record for mnic.mu is as follows:
Domain Name: mnic.mu
Domain ID: 867803-CoCCA
WHOIS Server:
Referral URL:
Updated Date: 2014-10-28T09:13:15.074Z
Creation Date: 2013-05-08T11:16:12.867Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2015-05-08T11:16:13.078Z
Sponsoring Registrar: Register.mu
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID:
Domain Status: ok
Name Server: ns2.mnic.mu
Name Server: ns1.mnic.mu
DNSSEC: unsigned
There was a report from Mohammad Nadim about the mnic.mu web site being unavailable. Nitin Mutkawoa noticed that the web server was sending a temporary "service unavailable" status code.
Connected to mnic.mu (5.77.51.86) port 80 (#0)
HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 01:11:58 GMT
Server: Apache
Last-Modified: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:29:28 GMT
The Facebook page of the "Mauritius National Identity Card" could still be accessed.
The mnic.mu web site was not listed as one of the top 500 web sites in Mauritius. It was not possible to assess the impact of the mnic.mu web site no longer being available.