Billgang and Antistock Seized — What Happened and Where to Sell Now

Billgang and Antistock are down — and the DNS records point to an FBI seizure

In early August 2026, billgang.com and antistock.io stopped resolving within days of each other. Both domains' nameservers now point to ns1.fbi.seized.gov and ns2.fbi.seized.gov — the standard pattern of a US law-enforcement domain seizure, and the same thing that happened to sellix.io in early 2024. Dashboards, APIs, the status page at status.billgang.com, and every hosted storefront are unreachable. This post covers what is known, what it means for displaced sellers, and how to get a store back online today.

What happened

The verifiable facts as of 3 August 2026:

• billgang.com and antistock.io both stopped resolving in early August 2026, in the same week.
• Both domains' nameservers were switched to ns1.fbi.seized.gov / ns2.fbi.seized.gov.
• All dashboards, APIs, and hosted stores are offline. status.billgang.com is itself unreachable.
• No official statement has been published by Billgang, Antistock, or the US Department of Justice at the time of writing.

Community channels are split between "exit scam" and "seizure". The exit-scam theory remains speculation by users; the nameserver change is hard evidence and points to law enforcement. A full breakdown of both theories is in Billgang: exit scam or seizure?

What this means for sellers

• The storefront is gone. Hosted stores on both platforms return nothing. There is no admin panel to log into and no export button left to press.
• Platform-held money is likely unrecoverable. Any balance held by Billgang or Antistock — including pending crypto payouts — now sits on seized infrastructure. When Sellix was seized in 2024, sellers in the same position did not get those funds back.
• Money in the seller's own accounts is safe. Both platforms connected the seller's own Stripe, PayPal, and crypto-wallet accounts. Funds already settled there are untouched.
• Custom domains are portable. A domain the seller owns can be repointed to a new storefront. The traffic and bookmarks survive even though the platform did not.
• Customer and product data is out of reach unless exports were kept or order data is mirrored in the payment gateways.

Action checklist for displaced sellers

• 1. Secure gateway accounts. Change passwords and rotate API keys on Stripe, PayPal, and any crypto processors that were connected to the seized platform. Revoke the platform's API access.
• 2. Collect every export. Old CSV exports, product spreadsheets, serial-key files, gateway transaction histories. Stripe and PayPal dashboards hold customer emails and order records even when the platform data is gone.
• 3. Notify customers. Post on Discord, Telegram, and socials that the store URL is dead, pending orders are affected, and a new address is coming. Silence looks like an exit scam by the seller.
• 4. Get a new storefront live today. Every day offline sends revenue to competitors who moved faster.
• 5. Repoint the custom domain. If the store ran on the seller's own domain, updating DNS to the new platform keeps every old link working.
• 6. Rebuild the catalog. Start with the top 20% of products that generate most of the revenue; backfill the long tail later.

Why this keeps happening

This is the third collapse in this niche in under three years. Sellix was seized in early 2024, displacing thousands of sellers. Sellpass rebranded to Antistock in late 2025, paused updates, and forced its sellers to migrate. Billgang positioned itself as the Sellix successor, claiming roughly 7,500 businesses and 99.98% uptime — and is now unreachable alongside Antistock. Many sellers have now rebuilt the same store two or even three times.

The common thread: closed-ecosystem platforms that hold seller balances, run behind anonymous operators, and tolerate abusive sellers until law enforcement removes the entire platform — compliant sellers included. A claimed 99.98% uptime is irrelevant when the domain itself can vanish overnight. Detailed track records: Billgang, Antistock, Sellpass, Sellix.

Where to sell now

Platforms still operating: Shoppy (long-standing trust issues and recurring reports of stolen payouts), SellAuth (0% fees), Sellhub, Sell.app, plus mainstream options Gumroad (10% fee) and Whop (roughly 3% fee). Full rundowns per platform are in Billgang down: the alternatives and Sellix down: the alternatives.

Where Sellup.io fits

Sellup.io is an independent, EU-based platform under active weekly development. One plan: EUR 14.99/month with everything included and 0% transaction fees — no tiers, no feature gates, no percentage taken from any sale.

• 11 payment gateways — Stripe, PayPal, Coinbase Commerce, Binance Pay, BTCPay and more — always connected to the seller's own accounts, so a platform outage can never trap funds.
• Serial key delivery and file downloads for digital products.
• 8 store templates and custom domain support.
• Affiliate program, flash sales, gift cards, abandoned cart recovery, and customer reviews.
• API + webhooks and team member accounts.

Migrating from Billgang or Antistock

Any Billgang or Antistock CSV export — even an old one — imports directly into Sellup.io; the same applies to Sellix exports. Support-assisted migration is available for partial or messy data. Sellers coming from platforms that are still online (Shoppy, SellAuth, Selly, Autobuy, Sell.app) can use one-click API import instead. The sequence: register, connect a gateway, import products, repoint the domain. A store can be live in minutes.

Start selling on Sellup.io — 0% transaction fees. One plan at EUR 14.99/month, every feature included, and payments land in the seller's own gateway accounts from day one.

Still weighing options? Compare all platforms side by side on fees, features, payout models, and track record.