I've been having fairly consistent problems accessing bitfinex for a while now, is this true for everyone?
Yes me too. But If you wait the URL is becoming like this "bitfinex.com.com" it's weird.
Access it from a search engine (Google or whatever).
I will mail their support.
I have the same weird error where it changes to "bitfinex.com.com"

However I have bookmarked Bitfinex now and when I try to access the website using
the bookmark it works flawlessly.