Ok, it's been 45 minutes, still no active connections to the network, needless to say, no blockchain. Tried also with firewall offetc.
Any ideas?
Do you have a bitcoindark.conf file in your C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Bitcoindark folder?
There was not one. Created a file in notepad, pasted from the OP and saved it as bitcoindark.conf in that folder. No help.