Soooo... when you are setting up an online market place specializing in the international trafficking of drugs, weapons and other illegal goods and services in the dark deep web, why not go the extra mile to house your servers in a location, the USA and its allies can't easily access? Alphabay-Servers were in goddamn Canada and HANSA had its servers in Lithuania - inside the fucking EU. I mean, at least when you have made the first few millions why not consider at least moving them somewhere NOT in the FBI's front yard? Russia, Iran, maybe somewhere in the desert of Syria, what do I know.
But why handle them the most precious part of your infrastructure on a golden plate?
Id hate to be the white dude on the team sent to set shit up in the middle of ISIS territory