The 12th will be the ultimate test of Akamai DNS, since the virus.

http://www.akamai.com/en/html/services/promo_retail_security.html:

1) 100% Domain Name System (DNS) availability
Utilizing a globally distributed, IP-anycasted DNS implementation, Akamai provides a distributed shield for your DNS layers against attack. Users can easily target DNS to bring down your sites, but Akamai uses advanced methods to ensure 100% availability for your DNS services.

We'll see about that. If nothing else, the flood of packets alone will slow down the last-mile route anyways.