Rather interestingly at Resource Zone (the official Dmoz forum) they have removed the "site status" section. I thought this was a nice way to communicate with the editors (well they were always helpful to my requests) and was probably closed due to the large amount of status requests they were getting.

"At some point the submission status requests seem to have taken over and almost become the focus."

I think I was a slightly late with this one as it actually closed on the 21st - anyway, here are the official details - Discontinuation of site status checks