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A darknet market is a commercial website on the dark web that operates via darknets such as Tor and I2P. [1] [2] They function primarily as black markets, selling or brokering transactions involving drugs, cyber-arms, [3] weapons, counterfeit currency, stolen credit card details, [4] forged documents, unlicensed pharmaceuticals, [5] steroids, [6] and other illicit goods as well as the sale of ...
Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market. [7] It was launched in 2011 by its American founder Ross Ulbricht under the pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts". As part of the dark web, [8] Silk Road operated as a hidden service on the Tor network, allowing users to buy and sell products and services between each other ...
White House Market (WHM) was a darknet market that operated intermittently from August 24, 2019, to October 2, 2021. Launched in August 2019 and exclusively accessible through the Tor network , WHM garnered a significant user base with almost 895,000 registered users, 3,450 vendors, and nearly 47,500 listings, according to its home page.
The dark web has often been confused with the deep web, the parts of the web not indexed (searchable) by search engines. The term dark web first emerged in 2009; however, it is unknown when the actual dark web first emerged. [11] Many internet users only use the surface web, data that can be accessed by a typical web browser. [12]
Hydra (Russian: Гидра) was a Russian language dark web marketplace, founded in 2015, [1] that facilitated trafficking of illegal drugs, financial services including cryptocurrency tumbling for money laundering, exchange services between cryptocurrency and Russian rubles, [2] and the sale of falsified documents and hacking services. [3]
Ross William Ulbricht (/ ˈ ʊ l b r ɪ k t /; born March 27, 1984) [1] is an American criminal who created and operated the darknet market Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013.
The Hub is a discussion forum on Tor hidden services on the dark web focused on darknet market [2] reviews, [3] cryptocurrency and security.. Second in popularity only to reddit's /r/DarkNetMarkets, [4] the site was launched in January 2014 as a more secure, verifiable and discreetly moderated alternative. [5]
archive.today – Is a web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand [2] Demonoid – Torrent [3] Internet Archive – A web archiving site; KickassTorrents (defunct) – A BitTorrent index [4] Sci-Hub – Search engine which bypasses paywalls to provide free access to scientific and academic research papers and articles [5]