Thanks, Benjamin, Laurie and everyone else for mitigating this, it feels great to know when the community chimes in together for such highly unanticipated scenarios.

On that note, however, respectfully I believe that features which have the potential of hitting the registry so bad should first be beta tested on a private registry and moved on to the high traffic serving CDNs of npm.

And 10% of the daily traffic is from India??? Whoa, every day is a school day.