Top 10 markets by number of listings (Updated August 26th)

Notes

Market Name Notes
DarkNet Heroes League DHL showing "System Error" when registering, using old DHL statistics instead. (June 26th)
Real Deal Market Service showing a 404 error, using old RDM statistics instead. (June 26th)
Outlaw Market Number of listings only includes drug listings.
Agora Service not included but on last check had 30,000+

Data

Market Name Listings
1 Alphabay 30920
2 Nucleus 16772
3 Abraxas 12147
4 Crypto Market 7800
5 Middle Earth 7701
6 Oxygen Market 5974
7 East India Company 1244
8 DarkNet Heroes League 909+
9 Real Deal Market 698+
10 Outlaw Market 639+

DNM admins/mods: Some data inaccurate? Post and I'll update.

Edit: Table messed up, thanks Obama.


Comments


[10 Points] n_l_i_s_s:

Seems relying on listings is a bad metric size rather than actual number of orders being processed.

Some markets don't hide out of stock listings or vacation listings and others do.

Some allow digital goods and fraud items which can inflate their numbers when others only allow drugs.


[5 Points] CocaineNose:

I actually wanted to register to DHL today and the captcha isn't even showing so I can't :(


[1 Points] KushPuppa:

Is Tochka in the ranking? I only heard about this place today but the idea is very original.


[1 Points] the_dark_throw:

Amazon Dark - 960+


[1 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

If a market has a lot of scammers, it inflates the numbers. They try to flood the page with every possible weight from 0.2gto 224g.

The more selective about who can be a vendor that a marketplace is, the less listings there are. Vendors who are desperate for sales volume go for yer alphabays. They know its not going to end well, but they are in need of another lesson because they didn't learn the last one.

Established vendors take a whole ecosystem with them wherever they go. Like a whale with a shoal of fish, a couple of seagulls, and parasitic fish with specialized mouth parts hitching a lift.

Whenever I'm forced onto another marketplace, you try pick pick one that at least isn't being RUN by sharks. This will be my 5th, and my first few messages will be from some mackeral who hasn't seen me since Silk Road or SheepMarketplace.


[1 Points] Vendor_BBMC:

When a customer first registers on a marketplace and see that first page full of square photos of every drug known to man, they're not as wowed as they used to be. Clicking on a few, they see "84%", "straight off the block", "acetone washed".

All phrases they recognize from guys who scammed them. Scamming 3 times a year seems like the sensible way to make money to many vendors, but darknet trade now is tiny compared to what it will be in the future. Vendors only have a future if they have at least a year of verifiable past, and customers only deposit bitcoin on a marketplace when a few of those square photos are for a vendor who they know isn't about to scam them.