The ballot has now been extended to midday September 19, 2007 after the web site set up to handle ticket registrations received 89.5 million attempts in a 12-hour period.

Show organizer Harvey Goldsmith states:

\"The web site has been receiving over five million hits per hour since the press announcement 24 hours ago. The service provider is doing their best to keep the site running and has moved it to a server on its own.\"

Since confirmation Wednesday of the one-off Led Zeppelin comeback at London\'s O2 Arena, the online service has had 80,000 requests each minute, at one point causing the system to crash, according to a spokesman.

Just 18,000 tickets, priced at $250, will be distributed to applicants on a lottery basis, capped at two tickets per household.

Led Zeppelin will headline a tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones will be joined by Jason Bonham, the son of their late drummer John Bonham.

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