I don’t see it as just an underlying or separate internet but also one intertwined with the existing. The dark web for me are websites or vendors offering services or products  either covertly (using TOR) or by misrepresentation (ie plant food for powder highs) which may be illegal in some countries served. 

There are more details around this and other cases available online - ‘Amazon suicide kits’ was one particularly unpleasant headline.

carlosfandango

>the dark-web.

what does that phrase mean to you? to me it suggests needing a TOR browser to access the site. As they don't mention it in the article, I wonder why you used that phrase.

premitive1

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saloon

A Canadian website is considered responsible for supplying chemical substances which may be used to aid suicide. Police in the UK are unlikely to investigate. Very very strange. Shining an uncomfortable spotlight on the dark-web.

https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/crime/962168/canada-poison-seller-linked-to-88-deaths-in-the-uk