In lieu of recent and earlier exit scams (eg. Evo, et), and the likelihood of the most popular DNM at the time becoming the focus of the FIB's, I mean FBI's cyber crime cronies, I'm proposing the idea of instead of risking your btc with DNM's that seem to be popping up like (poisoned?) mushrooms these days - all vendors need to have their own sites.
This would potentially mean, instead of having fifty ebays where one could purchase their item of choice, with one or two "big fish" that are being hunted by the LE - there could be hundreds, even thousands of individual vendor sites.
These could be all hosted and listed (with links) in alphabetical order under the names of the drugs/items they sell, or by their store name - on many darknet sites.
PGP should be used in all transactions whereby a system could be put in place to ensure nobody disappears with btc.
More importantly, tracking vendors and buyers by LE would become 1000 x more difficult!
Running an HS adds unnecessary risk to the vendor. It will also add a technical barrier to enter the market. I don't need my drug dealer to also be a CSS and database expert.
This is the second thread today with this same suggestion, but I still don't understand why you guys think the website aspect is a requirement here. Direct dealing can be done over Jabber or even email with much less effort. In /r/RCSources they have been doing this for years.
What we should be thinking about is how to make that system safer - e.g. by introducing escrow agents or multisig