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Silk Road

Silk Road: online black market operated as a Tor hidden service. Documented as a defunct Tor hidden service.

Availability

Unknown

Not checked recently enough to say.

Last observed responding
never
Last checked
never
Status set by
Automated checks

No official clearnet page is on file, so availability is not checked automatically.

Identity confidence

Medium

Independent sources exist, but identity continuity has not been independently confirmed.

  • Supports confidence: Independent sources: 2
  • Supports confidence: No unresolved identity conflicts
  • Supports confidence: Status history is consistent
  • Weakens confidence: Identity cannot be independently confirmed
  • Context: Never observed responding

Availability and identity are assessed separately. A responding endpoint does not show that it is operated by the entity it claims to be. Why this matters

What it is

Silk Road is described by Wikidata as “online black market operated as a Tor hidden service”, classified there as darknet market and notorious market website. Wikipedia's editors list it among defunct Tor hidden services, so this profile is a historical record.

Its recorded inception date is 2011. Wikidata records that it was dissolved or discontinued in 2013. No official clearnet website is recorded, so availability is not checked automatically.

WikiHidden does not publish the address. Obtain it from the entity's own official channel and treat any other listing, including search results, as unconfirmed.

Availability history

Share of automated checks that received a response each day, over the last 90 days. This measures reachability only.

90 days agoNo automated checks in this periodToday

Status history

Every change of status, who made it and on what evidence.

  1. Unknown
    Imported from a public source. Availability has not been checked yet.Set automatically · Evidence: Wikipedia and Wikidata

Timeline

  1. Dissolved or discontinued

    End date recorded in Wikidata.

    Source: Silk Road — Wikidata item Q58027

  2. Founded or launched

    Inception date recorded in Wikidata.

    Source: Silk Road — Wikidata item Q58027

Impersonation and scam reports

Only reports confirmed by a reviewer are listed. A report describes lookalikes of this entity; it is not a statement about the entity itself.

No confirmed reports. That is an absence of reports, not a guarantee that no impersonators exist.

Evidence history

The most recent accepted observations. Each records whether something responded and, separately, whether identity was assessed.

No observations have been recorded for this entity.

Times are UTC.

References

Independent sources this profile relies on.

  1. Silk Road — Wikidata item Q58027Wikidata · Archive · accessed Oct 5, 2026
  2. Silk Road — WikipediaWikipedia · Community · accessed Oct 5, 2026