.tor is a pseudo-top-level domain host suffix implemented by the

OnioNS An onion (''Allium cepa'' L., from Latin ''cepa'' meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus ''Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onio ...

project, which aims to add

DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed naming system for computers, services, and other resources in the Internet or other Internet Protocol (IP) networks. It associates various information with domain names assigned to ...

infrastructure to the

Tor Tor, TOR or ToR may refer to: Places * Tor, Pallars, a village in Spain * Tor, former name of Sloviansk, Ukraine, a city * Mount Tor, Tasmania, Australia, an extinct volcano * Tor Bay, Devon, England * Tor River, Western New Guinea, Indonesia ...

network enabling the selection of meaningful and globally-unique domain name for hidden services, which users can then reference from the Tor Browser. The project aims to address the major usability issue that has been with Tor hidden services since their introduction in 2002. Beta release of the server, client and domain name reservation tool (so called hidden service) software parts and their supporting common library were announced in the Tor developers mailing list in August 2015. According to the description on the projects gitsite "OnioNS is a distributed, privacy-enhanced, metadata-free, and highly usable DNS for Tor hidden services" The system is powered by the Tor network, relies on a distributed database, and provides anonymity to both operators and users.

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.tor Pseudo-top-level domains {{Compu-domain-stub

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