“It’s safe to say the halcyon days of the DNMs is over,” Eileen Ormsby, author of the book “ The Darkest Web,” wrote in a September blog post.
But even though countless sites have risen and fallen while attempting to fill the void left by the originator over the years, no other market has managed to earn the confidence of customers like DPR’s original vessel. Despite the harsh sentence, his Silk Road spawned a slew of copycats that managed to both expand and change the darknet playbook, resulting in monthly revenues in the tens of millions of dollars. He was eventually sentenced to life in prison over his experimental darknet market (DNM). “Sector by sector the State is being cut out of the equation and power is being returned to the individual.”īut Ulbricht’s utopian prophecy was, of course, cut short. “We’re talking about the potential for a monumental shift in the power structure of the world,” Ulbricht, still in the shadows as DPR, told Forbes, just months before he was ultimately arrested. After all, his site linked nearly 4,000 drug dealers around the world to sell their wares to more than 100,000 buyers, and could you get you anything from falsified documents to heroin - even a rocket launcher. In 2013, Silk Road founder and darknet drug emperor Ross Ulbricht, AKA Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR), seemed convinced that his website was destined to become the catalyst for a revolution.
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