AnubisDomains — frequently asked questions

Anubis Market publishes three concurrent v3 hidden-service domains. All three are listed on the AnubisDomains home page and are refreshed against the operator’s most recent PGP-signed Dread announcement. Any of the three works — they share a back-end.

Anubis is the only marketplace tracked here with native Ethereum acceptance. Most operators that appear to take ETH route through a third-party conversion bridge that swaps to BTC or XMR; Anubis generates an Ethereum deposit address on-site and watches the chain directly. That is meaningfully different in privacy and reliability profile.

Anubis layers three counter-measures on the login. Form-field names regenerate on every page load. Visible decoy text inputs sit alongside the real ones — bots that target inputs by name or position fill the decoys. The captcha is six rotated character tiles arranged in a pattern that resists vision-model solvers.

We track the Anubis domain set against the operator’s detached-PGP-signed Dread post. Import the public key once, verify the signature on every subsequent announcement. The domains in a validated post are authentic. We never use Telegram, Reddit or email forwards as a source — phishing clones use those channels systematically.

The operator is most likely mid-rotation or under unusually heavy pressure. Wait, then check the operator’s Dread account for an updated signed post. Anubis routinely returns inside a few hours during DDoS waves; the multi-domain posture is specifically designed to limit visible downtime.

Vendors stake a bond at signup, drawn against if they exit-scam mid-orders. New vendors run in escrow-only mode until they have closed a documented threshold of clean orders; only then does the operator grant finalize-early as a per-vendor permission. The bond and the FE flag are both visible on the vendor profile.

Domains are sometimes added with little advance notice — for example when the operator is topping up the pool ahead of an expected DDoS wave. Domain retirements are usually preceded by a signed Dread post saying "this onion is being deprecated." Either way, the signed post is the source of truth.

Anubis is the multi-coin-capable marketplace on our shortlist (BTC + LTC + ETH + XMR). Nexus is single-coin-leader on Litecoin acceptance, Mars publishes more concurrent endpoints, and so on. Each marketplace has a strength and AnubisDomains lists alternatives so you can comparison-shop when Anubis is unreachable.