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How Digital-Goods Selling Platforms Actually Work
Escrow, autobuy, custom domains, delivery types and platform fees explained, plus how we verify that a platform has stopped working.
Is Sellix Down? What the Shellix Index Data Shows — October 12, 2026
Buyers and sellers frequently inquire about the operational status of digital goods marketplaces. This analysis from the Shellix Editorial Board examines current data from the Shellix Index to provide clarity on the activity across autobuy platforms, including those often associated with the query 'is Sellix down,' as of October 12, 2026.
Read guideAutobuy Platforms Compared: Store and Product Counts in the Shellix Index — September 21, 2026
The Shellix index provides a detailed overview of the autobuy platform landscape as of September 21, 2026, tracking active storefronts and product listings across 16 distinct platforms. This analysis offers insights into market distribution and the scale of digital goods offerings.
Read guideIs Sellix Down? Shellix Index Data for September 2026
Buyers and sellers on autobuy platforms frequently inquire about platform stability and operational status. Shellix's latest index data, updated September 7, 2026, offers a detailed look into the current landscape of these digital marketplaces, tracking thousands of storefronts and products across 16 distinct platforms.
Read guideAutobuy Platforms Compared: Store and Product Counts in the Shellix Index — August 17, 2026
An analysis of the Shellix index reveals the current landscape of autobuy platforms, detailing store and product counts across 16 tracked platforms as of August 17, 2026. This report provides critical data for buyers and sellers navigating the digital goods marketplace.
Read guideAntistock, BillGang and SellPass Went Dark: What the DNS Records Show
Seven domains stopped resolving on 3 August 2026 and now advertise FBI seizure nameservers. The registry records tell a different story — here is what we verified, and what we still cannot say.
Read guideIs Sellix Down? An Analysis of Autobuy Platform Activity via Shellix Index Data — August 3, 2026
Buyers and sellers frequently inquire about the operational status of autobuy platforms. The Shellix index offers a data-driven perspective on the broader digital goods marketplace, tracking thousands of storefronts across multiple platforms as of August 3, 2026.
Read guideAutobuy Platforms Compared: Store and Product Counts in the Shellix Index — July 17, 2026
An analysis of 16 autobuy platforms indexed by Shellix as of July 17, 2026, reveals 3141 active storefronts offering 70518 distinct products. Shoppy, SellPass, and SellApp collectively account for a significant portion of these digital marketplaces, providing a snapshot of the current landscape.
Read guideAutobuy Platforms: Store and Product Counts in the Shellix Index (July 16, 2026)
The Shellix Index, as of July 16, 2026, tracks 16 distinct autobuy platforms, encompassing 3140 storefronts and 70459 unique products. This analysis provides a data-driven overview of the current landscape for buyers and sellers navigating digital goods marketplaces.
Read guideAutobuy Platforms: A Comparative Analysis of Store and Product Counts in the Shellix Index
An examination of the landscape of autobuy platforms, detailing store and product counts from the Shellix index to provide insights for buyers and sellers navigating these digital marketplaces. This analysis covers the prevalence of various platforms and their aggregated offerings.
Read guideIs Sellix Down? What the Shellix Index Data Shows
Shellix analyzes the current operational status of Sellix-type platforms, addressing common concerns about platform stability. Our index tracks active storefronts and product listings, providing data-driven insights into the ecosystem's activity and overall buyer sentiment.
Read guideFrequently asked
Was Antistock actually seized by the FBI?
The evidence we can check says no. The domains advertise FBI nameservers inside their own DNS zone, but the registry still delegates every one of them to the operator's own Cloudflare account, none carry a law-enforcement registry hold, and no seizure banner is served. A real seizure — nulled.to, for example — moves the delegation at the registry.
Can anyone put fbi.seized.gov on their own domain?
Yes. NS records inside a zone are written by whoever controls the DNS account, and nothing stops them naming a nameserver they do not control. It changes what a dig NS prints; it does not transfer anything.
Are my funds recoverable?
Money that settled into your own payment gateway was never held by the platform and is unaffected. Platform-held balances and pending payouts were in the operator's custody and should be treated as unrecoverable unless and until something changes.
Are the stores I saved on Shellix gone?
No. We stopped crawling these platforms and removed outbound links to their dead domains, but every store, listing and review already in our index stays and stays searchable.
Were these platforms all run by the same people?
The registry records show SellPass, Antistock, BillGang, HoodPay and Forebit sharing one Cloudflare nameserver pair, which Cloudflare assigns per account. That is consistent with a single operator, and it is public data anyone can re-check.