Silk Road staff forum posts dated December 1 and October 19, 21, and 22, 2011, read by defense counsel concerning a new URL, backups, servers, and site restoration

Dratel read Silk Road staff posts announcing a new URL in December 2011 and describing an October 2011 rebuild from backup, server configuration, and restoration of the site. The October posts also described using third parties to conceal operators' identities and obtaining a more powerful server.