Well, I've been searching on the cause for the modchip's site being down and couldn't turn up anything useful. Their site has been down for the past week and is now showing the Apache default page.
Speculation is running high. Was it Nintendo that shut them down? Maybe it was a server failure? Who knows... All I want to know is when they are coming back.
Modchips are legal. They allow you to play import games. Whatever I want to do to my own hardware is my business... not the company that sold it to me.