There were speculation that behind the DDOS attacks may be LE or some extortionist who is requesting money to stop the attacks. But let's think who is the real winner in this situation. The market links people have bookmarked doesn't work anymore. They have to go everytime to DeepDotWeb website to get a new working link because as they stated "some of market admins are providing us automatically with new ALT urls, in some ways we will not disclose now"
DDW is mainly funded by the affiliate links posted in every corner of their website. Every time someone uses their link to register and make a purchase they get money. And now they will have nearly 100% of the affiliate revenue as the only source of market links. Soon it will become a habit to first visit their site for everyone heading to a darknet market. And then they can even start asking markets for money to be included in their list. Very clever, DDW!
I don't have any proof, this is just speculation. Game theory.
Edit:
I used to spam affiliate links, Agora was my favorite. And believe me, you can earn lots of money if you place your link in the right place. It was 25% of the market fees for Agora if I remember correctly.
Nowadays the main source of darknet market links is DDW and DNM subreddit. The people who control these 2 places also have the "opportunity" to insert some phishing links if they want and have the technical knowledge. Lets estimate this "revenue" from phishing to be the same as affiliate links.
So, it results that someone controlling all the links is able to earn as much as 50% as the market itself without running a market. But markets come and go, but the affiliate and phishing earnings remain constant.
So, according to game theory, someone who's only reason to run a website is to earn money will do the thing above. That's the same reason markets do exit scam. Everyone is just doing business here, there are no more Ross Ulbirchts.
But that's just my 2 cents. Make your own opinion.
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