Can't load the page

Been watching Australian Open coverage on espn3.com daily. About an hour ago I tried to load the page and it fails.

The server at search.espn.go.com is taking too long to respond

Ping fails as well:

C:\data>ping search.espn.go.com

Pinging search.espn.gns.go.com [68.71.216.169] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Note: All other web sites I try work fine, just this is dead.