Silk Road

The Silk Road was a dark web website created in 2011. It's main purpose was the distribution of illicit drugs, but also dealt in various other goodshttp://casefilepodcast.com/case-76-silk-road-part-1.
== Overview ==
Silk Road specialized in the selling and distribution of illegal substances, mainly stimulants, narcotics, opioids, etc. The website was first registered by Ross Ulbricht sometime in February 2011https://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/drugs-bought-with-virtual-cash-20110611-1fy0a.html. 
In May 2013, Silk Road was taken down for a short period of time by a DDoS attack, which many believed may have been part of a DEA honeypot stinghttps://techcrunch.com/2013/06/27/the-dea-seized-bitcoins-in-a-silk-road-drug-raid/. However, they only managed to seize 11.02 bitcoins, then worth a total of $814.
=== Products ===
During March 2013, the site had 10,000 products for sale by vendors, 70% of which were drugshttps://web.archive.org/web/20160407165324/http://gawker.com/the-underground-website-where-you-can-buy-any-drug-imag-30818160. However, there were many other products for sale along with the drugs, such as fake drivers licenseshttps://www.wsj.com/articles/silk-road-founder-ross-ulbricht-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-1432929957 There were several items of which distribution was not allowed. Thes items could be anything from child pornography, assassinations, firearms, stolen credit cards, etc.
Illegal materials were not the only things being sold. Several legal items were also for sale, such as art, clothing, erotica, cigars, jewelry, and blogging services.
== Trivia ==
* The pseudonym "Dread Pirate Roberts" comes from the story and film The Princess Bride.
* Silk Road had a sister website named "The Armoury", which sold weapons (mostly firearms), but was shut down to due little traffichttp://gawker.com/5879924/now-you-can-buy-guns-on-the-online-underground-marketplace.
== References ==
Category:Dark web
Category:Commercial websites
Category:Websites registered in 2011
Category:Websites with the .onion domain
Category:Defunct websites