| Russian Anonymous Marketplace | |
| Type: | Forum based darknet market |
| Language: | Russian English |
| Launch Date: | 2012 |
| Current Status: | Terminated |
The Russian Anonymous Marketplace or RAMP was a Russian language forum with users selling a variety of drugs on the Dark Web.
With over 14,000 members, the site used Tor and used some escrow features like Silk Road-like darknet markets, but otherwise many deals took place off-site using off-the-record messaging.[1] It is the longest lived darknet market, running from September 2012 to July 2017, inspired by the success of the Silk Road.[2]
The administrator who went by the handle 'Darkside', claimed the site made around $250,000 a year and avoided law enforcement attention due to its predominant Russian user base and its ban on the sale of goods and services such as hacking.[3]
From July 2017, users were unable to login due to DDOS attacks.[4] On September 19, 2017, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed the site had been terminated in July.[5]