I have vague memories of how we got tickets in 2004 but I know it was odd.
From America, I think i must have been trying and it kept crashing? All i know is that I left the sale thinking that i did not get tickets. I also did not get a confirmation email. When my credit card bill came, a month later, the charge was there. And I remember calling somewhere in the UK to try and have them confirm that I did indeed have tickets, and they said that I did. Total shock on my end.
Back then, international tickets had to be picked up from an office in Castle Cary. I had never even been to the UK before. I just bought a train ticket to Castle Cary and hoped for the best. I got there, and sure enough there was a ticket waiting for me. But then I hadnt thought about how I would get from Castle Cary to the festival site. So I hitchhiked along with 2 aussies and a lovely man brought us down. He has driving a bus and it was empty, on his way down to the site already and figured he might as well give us a lift. Fond memories of 2004
So Akamai is the name of the company who provide the servers / edge services for queue-it but I think they also now do some stuff for the general See site as well. I might be wrong.
What browser was you using?
Despite not having a certification (as far as Wikipedia says) Kool-Aid still got to number 21 on the top 40. 78 million streams on Spotify. That is still insane numbers by a metal band for a song that isn’t even a year old. As @Andre91 says, they’ll be top of the bill or not there at all. BMTH knows their worth and I can’t see a scenario where they take 2nd.
Your second point is a bit silly given no lineup is out yet + any sales will also be down to fans that aren’t into exclusively metalcore.