DDOS - Means Distributed Denial of Service. Many servers from all over are used to send lots of requests to the website in order to overwhelm it and bring it down. If it was just one server, we could easily block it. But this attack is coming from 100's of servers.

Not getting any extortion notices. Just looks like someone would like to the ChipGuide to fail. I wonder who it can be? Maybe someone who has openly said that the CCA should fail? I have some ideas.