Utopia (marketplace)

{{Short description|Former darknet market}}

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| name = Utopia

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| url = {{Onion defunct|ggvow6fj3sehlm45}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.deepdotweb.com/marketplace-directory/listing/utopia-marketplace/ |title=Utopia Marketplace | Deep Dot Web |access-date=2017-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170708125621/https://www.deepdotweb.com/marketplace-directory/listing/utopia-marketplace/ |archive-date=2017-07-08 |url-status=dead }}

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| type = Darknet market

| registration = Required

| language = English

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Utopia was a darknet market similar to The Silk Road that facilitated sale of illegal items such as narcotics, firearms, stolen bank account information and forged identity documents.{{cite news|last1=Vaas|first1=Lisa|title=Silk Road-alike "Utopia" dark-net market seized by Dutch police|url=https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/02/13/silk-road-alike-utopia-dark-net-market-seized-by-dutch-police/|publisher=Naked Security by Sophos|date=February 13, 2014|access-date=June 19, 2018}} Utopia was based on Black Market Reloaded and has ties to it.{{cite news|last1=DeepDotWeb|title=BMR Based Market: Utopia Market|url=http://www.deepdotweb.com/2013/12/31/new-bmr-based-market-utopia-market/|access-date=31 May 2015|date=31 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418080007/http://www.deepdotweb.com/2013/12/31/new-bmr-based-market-utopia-market/|archive-date=18 April 2015|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.dailydot.com/crime/deep-web-black-markets-utopia/|title=In search of Utopia in the Deep Web|author=Carola Frediani|date=February 7, 2014|website=The Daily Dot|access-date=June 19, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170901154628/https://www.dailydot.com/crime/deep-web-black-markets-utopia/|archive-date=September 1, 2017|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}