I have come across extremely startling news and evidence that our friend, Michael is actually the operator of a website called "Silkroad", the largest of its kind - a DNM market (darknetmarket).
To cut the story short. I have compelling evidence to suggest the owner of LowEND.co (also owning GoodHosting.co & IntroNet.net) is actually Defcon, the successor to Silkroad 2, the amazon of drugs.
(THESE DETAILS CAN BE CONFIRMED BY CROSS REFFERENCING THE SILKROAD FORUMS AND TIMESTAMPS BETWEEN WHEN MICHAEL VANISHED, AND WHEN SR WENT OFFINE, THEN WHEN MICHAEL RETURNED.) LowEND first dropped offline on the 29/05/14. At this exact same time & date, our counterpart, Silkroad, was under "ddos" mode and was upgrading infrastructure, Defcon (owner of SR), claimed he was working on it. At this same time, our friend Michael vanished from mobile, skype & all communicable services for approximately 48 hours and appeared again on the grid during 31/05/14 - 01/06/14. The exact same time frame that Silkroad2 came back online from a series of what was described "ddos attacks".
Michael is Defcon (Stexo <-> Dread Pirate Roberts 2) suggesting evidence also leads me to believe that Michael was/is also DPR1 at one point.
http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/28533/lowend-co-goodhosting-co-michael-is-owner-of-silkroad
This is pretty laughable without more to go by