Russian Anonymous Marketplace

{{Short description|Defunct Russian-language darknet market}}

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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.{{cite news|last1=Greenberg|first1=Andy|title=How a Russian Dark Web Drug Market Outlived the Silk Road (And Silk Road 2)|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/11/oldest-drug-market-is-russian/|accessdate=6 July 2015|date=14 November 2014}} It is the longest lived darknet market, running from September 2012 to July 2017, inspired by the success of the Silk Road.{{cite news|last1=Greenberg|first1=Andy|title=An Interview With Darkside, Russia's Favorite Dark Web Drug Lord|url=https://www.wired.com/2014/12/interview-darkside-russias-favorite-dark-web-drug-lord/|accessdate=6 July 2015|date=4 December 2014}}

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.{{cite news|last1=IHS Jane's Intelligence Review|title=Law enforcement struggles to control darknet|url=http://www.janes.com/article/47455/law-enforcement-struggles-to-control-darknet|accessdate=6 July 2015|date=30 December 2014}}

From July 2017, users were unable to login due to DDOS attacks.{{cite news|last1=Aliens|first1=C|title=Russian Authorities Busted RAMP, the Oldest Darknet Market|url=https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/09/21/russian-authorities-busted-ramp-oldest-darknet-market/|accessdate=21 September 2017|date=21 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922051239/https://www.deepdotweb.com/2017/09/21/russian-authorities-busted-ramp-oldest-darknet-market/|archive-date=22 September 2017|url-status=dead}} On September 19, 2017, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed the site had been terminated in July.{{cite news|url=http://tass.ru/proisshestviya/4572560|title=МВД сообщило о ликвидации крупнейшего интернет-магазина наркотиков|publisher=TASS|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922040310/http://tass.ru/proisshestviya/4572560|date=19 September 2017|archive-date=22 September 2017|access-date=24 November 2019}}