It seems that many of the mining sites have a problem with DASH. (Getting it to pay the miners with)
Back a few pages on this site some people were discussing it.
I would love to accumulate some DASH, in fact I did last weekend when I sold some silver, took the $$ bought ether and traded for DASH.
Too bad Starpool is down, wish they would post a update of when they expect to be running full on again