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‘DNM Archives’ directory

Mir­rors of ~89 Tor-Bitcoin dark­net mar­kets & fo­rums 201142015, and re­lated ma­te­r­ial.

Dark Net Mar­kets (DNM) are on­line mar­kets typ­i­cally hosted as Tor hid­den ser­vices pro­vid­ing es­crow ser­vices be­tween buy­ers & sell­ers trans­act­ing in Bit­coin or other cryp­to­coins, usu­ally for drugs or other il­le­gal/reg­u­lated goods; the most fa­mous DNM was Silk Road 1, which pi­o­neered the busi­ness model in 201114ya.

From be­tween 2013–2015, I scraped/mir­rored on a weekly or daily basis all ex­ist­ing English-language DNMs as part of my re­search into their usage, life­times/char­ac­ter­is­tics, & legal risk­i­ness; these scrapes cov­ered ven­dor pages, feed­back, im­ages, etc. In ad­di­tion, I made or ob­tained copies of as many other datasets & doc­u­ments re­lated to the DNMs as I could.

This uniquely com­pre­hen­sive col­lec­tion is now pub­licly re­leased as a 50GB (~1.6TB un­com­pressed) col­lec­tion cov­er­ing 89 DNMs & 37+ re­lated fo­rums, rep­re­sent­ing <4,438 mir­rors, and is avail­able for any re­search.

This page doc­u­ments the down­load, con­tents, in­ter­pre­ta­tion, and tech­ni­cal meth­ods be­hind the scrapes.

See Also

Gwern

“Darknet Market Archives (2013–2015) ”, Gwern 2013

Darknet Market Archives (2013–2015)

“Dnmarchives Directory Listing ”, Gwern 2015

⁠dnmarchives directory listing:

“A Replication and Methodological Critique of the Study ‘Evaluating Drug Trafficking on the Tor Network’ ”, Munksgaard et al 2016

A replication and methodological critique of the study ‘Evaluating drug trafficking on the Tor Network’

Miscellaneous