We were having serious server problems during the last hours. Most services are restored, the domain ws.geonames.org is still down. More information will follow later. There is still a lot of work to be done.
I apologize for the inconvenience.
It actually started with some network packet loss on one of the commercial servers, we then had to turn off the free services and use the servers for the commercial services to replace the server affected by the router issue.
We will restore the free services as soon as possible, but as you understand the commercial services have priority.