Reply from CarSoup.comOct 26, 2016
We can understand your frustration with Carsoup.com not being available. As you are no doubt aware by now, there were multiple, large-scale cyber-attacks today against Dyn, a major provider of Domain Name Servers (DNS). DNS acts as the Internet’s phone book, allowing people to access individual websites. This attack, widespread across the United States, has rendered sites like CNN, Twitter, Spotify, PayPal and others inaccessible. Unfortunately, CarSoup.com was included in the outage too. To further compound the issue, the issues caused a hardware failure in our firewall. To protect all of our users information, we kept the site down until the firewall could be replaced. Related to the phone number not being on the ad, we allow Private Party advertisers to choose whether or not they want a phone number listed. This feature is at the request of many vehicle sellers who were not comfortable giving out their home or cell phone number. We are happy to hear you found the right vehicle and hope that we can earn your business in the future. Thank you for letting us know about your experience using CarSoup.com.