The reason that ANC is not taking off is simple:
There are other far superior coins such as Darkcoin or even Fedoracoin.
ANC used i2p which basically makes your IP address private, but you can still trace transactions to a given address.
Darkcoin addresses this issue with darksend, which splits up the transaction across multiple nodes, so you cant directly link the sender.
1) thanks for your response
2) the since the time of the initial post ANC have risen sharply, then came back down to where it is
and
3) both coins you speak of are cut from the same cloth, from which you can create Gox wardrobes