Ahmia is a specialised dark web search engine designed to help users access all corners of the dark web. This paper discusses Ahmia, how it works, its features and benefits, security precautions, and how it compares to other dark web search engines.

After the domain was seized, Z-Library announced on its official blog that the platform thanked users for their support and apologized to book authors. It also stated that the repository would continue to exist, albeit in a more restricted manner on the dark web.

If the upgrade of Darknetlive is the passing of the flame, the legacy of darknet culture, it will be welcomed by the whole world. But if it is for spreading malicious darknet sites, and darknet trading markets, then it will only go to extinction.

DNS records and other information for the blocked domain name indicate that the seizure of the Shadow Library Z-Library domain name was the result of cooperation between the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the U.S. Department of Justice, presumably as a result of criminal proceedings arising from the site's growing piracy problem.