Register.com meltdown

It is always bad when a major registrar has a failure of any type, but the continuing problems at Register.com are affecting at least a million websites (and the Register.com site itself):

Register.com suffers DOS attack

Currently Register.com won't load for me at all, nor will several sites that I have registered with them. All of the "secondary" DNS servers in the world won't save you if the provider goes belly up like this (we have 4 DNS servers listed) and really makes me consider hosting our own BIND servers on several hosting services (so the failure of one *provider* isn't going to cause access to fail).