The history of this resource begins in 2013 with a forum of the same name. The original DiDW platform was used as a forum to discuss IT security and anonymity.

Detail

At its peak in 2017, the site had 23,000 registered users and nearly 6,000,000 visits per month. But then his profile changed dramatically. Before long, the resource began to be used to sell illegal goods, including weapons and drugs, and an escrow system was used to protect participants of such transactions from fraud. This turned DiDW into a fully fledged forum-based trading platform.

Law enforcement writes that the gunman who committed a mass murder in Munich in 2016 purchased murder tools and ammunition from DiDW. As a result, in 2017 the site was shut down by law enforcement, and its operator was arrested and sentenced to seven years in prison.

clones

• Two new versions of the site appeared on the darknet in 2018, and the new owners have made it clear that they no longer care about masking illegal activities on DiDW.
• One of the versions shut down in 2019 without explanation, but just ten days later, a third version of the marketplace has surfaced online.
• As police now report, after five years of investigations, it was finally possible to identify the supposed director of the third version of DiDW. Arrested on October 25, 2022. His name was not disclosed, but he was reported to be a 22-year-old student.
• The third DiDW clone ceased operations in March 2022, at which time the site had approximately 16,000 registered users, 28,000 posts, and 72 major vendors of banned items.

Law enforcement writes that the suspect now faces criminal charges The crime of operating an illegal trading platform with a prison sentence of up to 10 years.