This paper investigates the functioning of Online Black-Markets (OBMs), i.e. a digital infrastructure operating in the Dark Net that enables the exchange of illegal goods such as drugs, weapons and fake digital identities. OBMs exist notwithstanding adverse conditions such as police interventions, scams and market breakdowns. Relying on a longitudinal case study, we focus on the dynamics of interactions among actors and marketplace technologies and we identify three mechanisms explaining OBMs operations. In particular, we show that OBMs infrastructure is the result of commoditization, platformization and resilience processes. Our contribution relies on the identification of community-based mechanisms that generate the OBMs infrastructure, extending the current understanding of e-commerce and social commerce.

本文调查了在线黑市 (OBM) 的功能，即在暗网中运行的数字基础设施，可以交换毒品、武器和假数字身份等非法商品。尽管有警察干预、诈骗和市场崩溃等不利条件，OBM 仍然存在。依靠纵向案例研究，我们关注参与者和市场技术之间相互作用的动态，我们确定了三种解释 OBM 操作的机制。特别是，我们表明 OBM 基础设施是商品化、平台化和弹性过程的结果。我们的贡献依赖于识别生成 OBM 基础设施的基于社区的机制，扩展了当前对电子商务和社交商务的理解。