Historical — went dark 2019
No .onion address on file
Dream darknet market
Dream is a historical catalog entry. Open reporting says Dream Market announced a close in March 2019 and went dark at the end of April. The ending is still unresolved in the public record. It is not an active market and has no live onion address in our files. This is an editorial profile, not a marketplace listing.
Catalog facts
- Reported launch
- Reported 2013
- Public focus
- Historical — went dark 2019
- Catalog status
- Went dark — Closed 2019; ending unresolved in public record
About Dream
Public write-ups date Dream Market to late 2013. After the 2017 AlphaBay and Hansa actions it was widely described as the largest remaining English-language shop. Longevity became the selling point — and later directories treat that assumption as the thing to distrust.
On 26–27 March 2019 administrators posted that the shop would shut on 30 April 2019 and transfer services to a “partner company.” CyberScoop noted the notice landed the same week U.S. and European agencies announced vendor arrests under Operation SaboTor. ABC News reported the same close date and the swirl of rumors: DDoS and extortion, a voluntary exit, or law-enforcement pressure. Authorities did not announce a Silk Road-style seizure banner for Dream itself.
The site went dark at the end of April 2019. Open sources still split three ways: a quiet exit, law-enforcement pressure, or a mix. This catalog records that uncertainty instead of picking a cinematic ending. Status is Went dark so the name stays in the historical list without pretending a court-stamped seizure that was never published.
No Official or Mirror string is stored. A familiar brand after a messy close is a cheap phishing costume — treat any address you find elsewhere as untrusted until you check a signed canary and a second independent source.
Reported history
- 2013
- Public summaries date the shop here, before AlphaBay’s 2014 launch.
- 2017–2018
- After Operation Bayonet, directories describe Dream as the main English-language landing pad.
- 26–27 March 2019
- Administrators announced a 30 April close and a transfer to a partner onion. CyberScoop and ABC News reported the notice alongside Operation SaboTor vendor arrests.
- 30 April 2019
- The shop went dark. No agency seizure banner on the scale of Silk Road 1.0 appeared in the first weeks. The public record still disagrees on the ending type.
Reported public features
- Historical entry only. Tags in our file: Historical.
- Public reporting describes a long-running English-language catalog that outlasted Silk Road and AlphaBay, then closed without a clean courtroom stamp.
- Contemporaneous coverage cites DDoS and extortion claims in the shutdown notice. Those are reported operator claims, not a verified cause.
- A “partner company” onion was named in the close notice. We do not store that string.
What this page does not claim
- This is not an active market. There is no live onion in our files.
- Catalog status is Went dark because open sources still disagree on seizure versus exit. We do not flatten that into a single invented ending.
- Operation SaboTor vendor arrests happened in the same week as the close notice. Agencies did not announce that they had taken over Dream itself.
- Any “Dream is back” page should be treated as a clone until a signed canary and a second independent source agree.
Public sources
How TorBible records Dream
Status, tags, and listing counts come from our catalog file. Editorial notes below the card come from open public reporting and are worded as reported when we have not verified them in-house. Treat every mirror you find elsewhere as untrusted until you check a PGP canary and a second independent source. See phishing detection and OPSEC fundamentals.