After last week's collapse of the illicit Tor marketplace Silk Road, Former Silk Roaders say they are preparing to open new anonymous online drug bazaars. At least five people or organizations are now making efforts to rebuild the Silk Road.

A user calling himself The Godfather, speaking on hidden forums, has called for contributors to help build “Silk Road 2.0”.

The underground "activist" wrote:

Know this when I say: 'This is not the end, this is just the beginning.' We will come out with a newer, sleeker, more secure version of Silk Road that will be 100% untraceable.

Why will this Silk Road be better? From the get-go, we have only made communications with each other through TOR so we all remain completely anonymous, even to each other. LONG LIVE SILK ROAD!!!!!!!!!

According to the administrator of yet another anonymous drugs market, Atlantis, drug dealers have simply moved to other anonymous online services. An alternative market called Sheep now is listing roughly three times as many drugs vendors as before the demise of Silk Road.