This is a categorized list of notable

onion services Tor, short for The Onion Router, is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication. It directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network, consisting of more than seven thousand relays, to conc ...

(formerly, hidden services) accessible through the

Tor anonymity network Tor, short for The Onion Router, is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication. It directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network, consisting of more than seven thousand relays, to con ...

. Defunct services are marked as well as services with known only with deprecated v2 addresses are marked.

Archive and Index

archive.today archive.today (or archive.is) is a web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand, and has support for JavaScript-heavy sites such as Google Maps and progressive web apps such as Twitter. archive.today records two snaps ...

- Is a web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand * Demonoid - Torrent * Sci-Hub – Search engine which bypasses

paywall A paywall is a method of restricting access to content, with a purchase or a paid subscription, especially news. Beginning in the mid-2010s, newspapers started implementing paywalls on their websites as a way to increase revenue after years of ...

s to provide free access to scientific and academic research papers and articles *

KickassTorrents KickassTorrents (commonly abbreviated KAT) was a website that provided a directory for torrent files and magnet links to facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing using the BitTorrent protocol. It was founded in 2008 and by November 2014, KAT became ...

(defunct) – A BitTorrent index * The Pirate Bay – A BitTorrent index *

Z-Library Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis, from which most of it ...

– Many instances exist

Commerce

Agora The agora (; grc, ἀγορά, romanized: ', meaning "market" in Modern Greek) was a central public space in ancient Greek city-states. It is the best representation of a city-state's response to accommodate the social and political order of t ...

(defunct) *

AlphaBay AlphaBay is a darknet market operating both as an onion service on the Tor network and as an I2P node on I2P. After it was shut down in July 2017 following law enforcement action in the United States, Canada, and Thailand as part of Operation ...

- active again * Atlantis (defunct) *

Black Market Reloaded Black Market Reloaded was a .onion hidden 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, Englan ...

(defunct) *

Dream Market Dream Market was an online darknet market founded in late 2013. Dream Market operated on a hidden service of the Tor network, allowing online users to browse anonymously and securely while avoiding potential monitoring of traffic. The marketplace ...

(defunct) * Evolution (defunct) *

Hansa Hansa may refer to: Places *Hanseatic League, a 13th–17th century alliance of European trading cities *Hansa (shopping centre), in Turku, Finland *Hansa-Park, a German attraction park *480 Hansa, a main-belt asteroid, a minor planet orbiting th ...

(defunct) *

Sheep Marketplace Sheep Marketplace was an anonymous marketplace set up as a Tor hidden service. It launched in March 2013 and was one of the lesser known sites to gain popularity with the well publicized closure of the Silk Road marketplace later that year. It ce ...

(defunct) *

Silk Road The Silk Road () was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Spanning over 6,400 kilometers (4,000 miles), it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and reli ...

(defunct) *

The Farmer's Market The Farmer's Market, formerly Adamflowers, was an online black market for illegal drugs. It was founded by Marc Peter Willems in or before 2006, and moved operations to the dark web in 2010 using the Tor anonymity network. It was closed and se ...

(defunct) *

TheRealDeal TheRealDeal was a darknet website and a part of the cyber-arms industry reported to be selling code and zero-day software exploits. The creators claimed in an interview with DeepDotWeb that the site was founded in direct response to the number ...

(defunct) * Utopia (defunct)

Communications

* OpenPGP

Messaging

* Briar (software) – uses onion services as address when message transport is internet * Cryptocat(defunct) *

Keybase KeyBase is a database and web application for managing and deploying interactive taxonomic keys for plants and animals developed by the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria are botanic gardens across two sites&ndas ...

* Ricochet (software) - uses tor network by default for message sending and receiving *

TorChat TorChat was a peer-to-peer anonymous instant messenger that used Tor onion services as its underlying network. It provided cryptographically secure text messaging and file transfers. The characteristics of Tor's onion services ensure that all tr ...

(defunct)

Email providers

Bitmessage.ch Bitmessage is a decentralized, encrypted, peer-to-peer, trustless communications protocol that can be used by one person to send encrypted messages to another person, or to multiple subscribers. Bitmessage was conceived by software developer Jo ...

(defunct) *

Guerrilla Mail Guerrilla Mail is a free disposable email address service launched in 2006. Visitors are automatically assigned a random email address upon visiting the site. Features Guerrilla Mail randomly generates disposable email addresses. Disposable emai ...

* Proton Mail *

Riseup Riseup is a volunteer-run collective providing secure email, email lists, a VPN service, online chat, and other online services. This organization was launched by activists in Seattle with borrowed equipment and a few users in 1999 or 2000, and q ...

SIGAINT SIGAINT was a Tor hidden service offering secure email services. According to its FAQ page, its web interface used SquirrelMail which does not rely on JavaScript. Passwords couldn't be recovered. Users received two addresses per inbox: one at siga ...

(defunct) *

Tor Mail Tor Mail was a Tor hidden service that went offline in August 2013 after an FBI raid on Freedom Hosting. The service allowed users to send and receive email anonymously to email addresses inside and outside the Tor network. History Tor Mail p ...

(defunct)

Events

Debian Conference DebConf, the Debian developers conference is the yearly conference where developers of the Debian operating system meet to discuss further development of the system. Besides the scheduled workshops and talks, Debian developers take the opportunit ...

DEF CON DEF CON (also written as DEFCON, Defcon or DC) is a hacker convention held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first DEF CON took place in June 1993 and today many attendees at DEF CON include computer security professionals, journalists, lawyer ...

File storage

* ProtonDrive *

Freedom Hosting :''This defunct hosting site is not related to Freedom Hosting Pty Ltd, which is operating in Australia.'' Freedom Hosting is a defunct Tor specialist web hosting service that was established in 2008. At its height in August 2013, it was the la ...

(defunct) – Formerly the largest Tor-specific web host, until the arrest of its owner in August 2013.

Financial

Blockchain.info Blockchain.com (formerly Blockchain.info) is a cryptocurrency financial services company. The company began as the first Bitcoin blockchain explorer in 2011 and later created a cryptocurrency wallet that accounted for 28% of bitcoin transacti ...

(v2)– A popular bitcoin blockchain explorer service * Helix (defunct)

Government

* Central Intelligence Agency * National Police and Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands – An official hidden service about darknet market takedown operations

Hidden services directories, portals, and information

* 1.1.1.1 - DNS by Cloudflare *

The Hidden Wiki The Hidden Wiki was a dark web MediaWiki wiki operating as Tor hidden services that could be anonymously edited after registering on the site. The main page served as a directory of links to other .onion sites. History The first Hidden Wik ...

– ambiguously forked

News, index and document archives

* BBC News *

BuggedPlanet BuggedPlanet.info is a wiki created in 2011 by Andy Müller-Maguhn, former spokesman of the Chaos Computer Club, that tries to list and track down the activities of the surveillance industry in the fields of "Lawful interception", Signals intellige ...

(v2) *

BuzzFeed News ''BuzzFeed News'' is an American news website published by BuzzFeed. It has published a number of high-profile scoops, including the Steele dossier, for which it was heavily criticized, and the FinCEN Files. Since its establishment in 2011, it ...

(v2) * Current Time TV * ''

DeepDotWeb DeepDotWeb was a news site dedicated to events in and surrounding the dark web featuring interviews and reviews about darknet markets, Tor hidden services, privacy, bitcoin, and related news. The website was seized on May 7, 2019, during an inves ...

'' (defunct) *

Deutsche Welle Deutsche Welle (; "German Wave" in English), abbreviated to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite television service con ...

Die Tageszeitung ''Die Tageszeitung'' (, “The Daily Newspaper”), is counted as being one of modern Germany's most important newspapers and amongst the top seven. taz is stylized as ''die tageszeitung'' and commonly referred to as ''taz'', is a cooperative-own ...

– German daily *

Doxbin Doxbin is a defunct onion service. It was a type of pastebin primarily used by people posting personal data (often referred to as ''doxing'') of any person of interest. Due to the illegal nature of much of the information it published (such ...

(defunct) * It's Going Down * ProPublica *

Radio Free Asia Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a United States government-funded private non-profit news service that broadcasts radio programs and publishes online news, information, and commentary for its audiences in Asia. The service, which provides editoriall ...

(v2) *

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a United States government funded organization that broadcasts and reports news, information, and analysis to countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Caucasus, and the Middle East where it says tha ...

* The Guardian * '' The New York Times''

Operating systems

Debian Debian (), also known as Debian GNU/Linux, is a Linux distribution composed of free and open-source software, developed by the community-supported Debian Project, which was established by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. The first version of D ...

(static

Web Web most often refers to: * Spider web, a silken structure created by the animal * World Wide Web or the Web, an Internet-based hypertext system Web, WEB, or the Web may also refer to: Computing * WEB, a literate programming system created by ...

content and package repositories) *

Qubes OS Qubes OS is a security-focused operating system, security-focused desktop Linux distribution that aims to provide computer security, security through isolation. Virtualization is performed by Xen, and user environments can be based on (with off ...

– Security-focused desktop operating system *

Whonix Whonix (, ) is a Kicksecure–based security hardened Linux distribution. Its main goals are to provide strong privacy and anonymity on the Internet. The operating system consists of two virtual machines, a "Workstation" and a Tor "Gateway", r ...

– Debian-based security distribution

Whistleblowing / Drop sites

SecureDrop and

GlobaLeaks GlobaLeaks is an open-source, free software intended to enable secure and anonymous whistleblowing initiatives. History The project started on 15 December 2010 and the first software prototype was announced on 6 September 2011. Relevant figure ...

software is used in most of these whistleblowing sites. These are a secure communications platform for use between journalists and sources. Both software's website is also available as an onion service.Strongbox
. '' The New Yorker''. Retrieved 15 November 2013.Biryukov, Alex; Pustogarov, Ivan; & Weinmann, Ralf-Philipp. (2013). Content and popularity analysis of Tor hidden services . ''ArXiv.org'' (Cornell University Library). Retrieved 15 November 2013. Websites that use secure drop are listed in a directory. *

2600: The Hacker Quarterly ''2600: The Hacker Quarterly'' is an American seasonal publication of technical information and articles, many of which are written and submitted by the readership, on a variety of subjects including hacking, telephone switching systems, Intern ...

* ABC News * Aftenposten * Al Jazeera Media Network * Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Law * CBC News * CNN International * Dagbladet * Financial Times *

Forbidden Stories Forbidden Stories is a non-profit organization with the mission "to continue and publish the work of other journalists facing threats, prison, or murder." To achieve this, it allows journalists to send their work to Forbidden Stories, so other jou ...

* HuffPost * Lawrence Lessig * NRK * Politico * Reuters *

Süddeutsche Zeitung The ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'' (; ), published in Munich, Bavaria, is one of the largest daily newspapers in Germany. The tone of SZ is mainly described as centre-left, liberal, social-liberal, progressive-liberal, and social-democrat. History ...

* TechCrunch * Independent Media Center *

The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...

* The Washington Post *

Toronto Star The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part ...

* TV 2 (Denmark) * Vice Media * Whistleblower Aid * Filtrala – A Spanish whistleblowing initiative operated by

Associated Whistleblowing Press The Associated Whistleblowing Press (AWP) is a not-for-profit information agency based in Brussels, Belgium, dedicated to the defense of human rights by promoting transparency, freedom of information and speech, whistleblowing and investigative jo ...

* Ljost – An Icelandic whistleblowing initiative operated by

– German daily * NawaatLeaks – An Arabic whistleblowing initiative operated by

Nawaat Nawaat (Arabic: نواة) is an independent collective blog co-founded by Tunisians Sami Ben Gharbia, Sufian Guerfali and Riadh Guerfali in 2004, with Malek Khadraoui joining the organization in 2006. The goal of Nawaat's founders was to provide ...

* '' ProPublica'' *'' The Guardian'' * '' The Intercept'' * The Markup *'' New York Times'' *'' The New Yorker'' * WildLeaks – A wildlife-crime whistleblowing initiative operated by

Elephant Action League The Elephant Action League (EAL) is an environmental non-governmental organization founded in 2013 in the United States by Andrea Crosta, Gilda Moratti, and Francesco Rocca. EAL is based in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. WildLeaks project ...

* WikiLeaks

Nonprofit organizations

Courage Foundation The Courage Foundation is an international organisation based in Germany, the UK and the US that supports whistleblowers and journalists by fundraising for their legal defence. Founded on August 9, 2013, as the Journalistic Source Protection Def ...

* Freedom of the Press Foundation *

Front Line Defenders Front Line Defenders, or The International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, is an Irish-based human rights organisation founded in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland in 2001 to protect those who work non-violently to uph ...

La Quadrature du Net La Quadrature du Net ('' Squaring the Net'' in French) is a French advocacy group that promotes digital rights and freedoms for its citizens. It advocates for French and European legislation to respect the founding principles of the Internet, ...

(v2) * Privacy International * Telecomix(v2, defunct) *

The Tor Project The Tor Project, Inc. is a Seattle-based 501(c)(3) research-education nonprofit organization founded by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson and five others. The Tor Project is primarily responsible for maintaining software for ...

Pornography

* Boystown (defunct) * Childs Play (defunct) * Lolita City (defunct) * Playpen (defunct) *

Welcome to Video A welcome is a kind of greeting designed to introduce a person to a new place or situation, and to make them feel at ease. The term can similarly be used to describe the feeling of being accepted on the part of the new person. In some contexts ...

(defunct) * Pornhub

Search engines

Ahmia Ahmia is a clearnet (networking), clearnet web search engine, search engine for Tor (anonymity network), Tor's hidden services created by Juha Nurmi. Overview Developed during the Google Summer of Code#2014, 2014 Google Summer of Code with sup ...

–

Search engine A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a ...

Brave Search Brave Search is a search engine developed by Brave Software, Inc., which is set as the default search engine for Brave web browser users in certain countries. History Brave Search is a search engine developed by Brave Software, Inc. and release ...

* BTDigg(defunct) * DuckDuckGo * Grams (defunct) *

MetaGer MetaGer is a metasearch engine focused on protecting users' privacy. Based in Germany, and hosted as a cooperation between the German NGO 'SUMA-EV - Association for Free Access to Knowledge' and the University of Hannover, the system is built on ...

* Searx - Individual instances use onion address

Social media and forums

8chan 8kun, previously called 8chan, Infinitechan or Infinitychan (stylized as ∞chan), is an imageboard website composed of user-created message boards. An owner moderates each board, with minimal interaction from site administration. The site ha ...

– An imageboard *

Dark0de dark0de, also known as Darkode, is a cybercrime forum and black marketplace described by Europol as "the most prolific English-speaking cybercriminal forum to date". This site which was launched in 2007, serves as a venue for the sale and trade ...

(defunct) * Dread *

Facebook onion address The Facebook onion address located at facebookwkhpilnemxj7asaniu7vnjjbiltxjqhye3mhbshg7kx5tfyd.onionhttps://www.facebook.com/onion-service (formerly facebookcorewwwi.onion) is a site that allows access to Facebook through the Tor protocol, usi ...

– Facebook Facebook (2014, October 31)
Facebook Protect the Graph blog
. Retrieved 31 October 2014 *

HackBB HackBB was a Tor hidden service Internet forum specializing in buying stolen credit cards, skimming ATMs, and hacking computers, servers and accounts. The site was often a destination for hacked and stolen data dumps. At some point the site was ...

(defunct) * Reddit *

Russian Anonymous Marketplace The Russian Anonymous Marketplace or RAMP was a Russian language forum with users selling a variety of drugs on the Dark Web. With over 14,000 members, the site uses Tor and uses some escrow features like Silk Road-like darknet markets, but ...

(defunct) * The Daily Stormer – American

neo-Nazi Neo-Nazism comprises the post–World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazism, Nazi ideology. Neo-Nazis employ their ideology to promote hatred and Supremacism#Racial, racial supremacy (ofte ...

commentary- and message board *

The Hub The Hub may refer to: Places * The Hub, Bronx, an area of the South Bronx, New York, known for its convergence of subway and bus lines * The Hub (Edinburgh), former church in Edinburgh that is now home to the Edinburgh International Festival * T ...

(defunct) * Tor Carding Forum (defunct) * Twitter The Verge (2022, March 8)
Twitter is launching a Tor service for more secure and private tweeting
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Software

Brave Brave most commonly refers to: *Brave, an adjective for one who possesses courage *Braves (Native Americans), a EuroAmerican stereotype for Native American warriors Brave(s) or The Brave(s) may also refer to: Film and television * ''Brave'' (199 ...

* Guardian Project * Mailpile(v2)

References

Note

* To access onion links the .onion may be replaced with "tor2web.io". However it's strongly recommended to use official Tor Browser or Onion Browser to browse these links.

External links

* *
Real-World Onion Sites
on GitHub {{Tor project Tor onion services

Tor hidden services Tor, short for The Onion Router, is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication. It directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network, consisting of more than seven thousand relays, to con ...

Tor (anonymity network), hidden services Tor (anonymity network), hidden services *

Archive and Index

Commerce

Communications

Messaging

Email providers

Events

File storage

Financial

Government

Hidden services directories, portals, and information

News, index and document archives

Operating systems

Whistleblowing / Drop sites

Nonprofit organizations

Pornography

Search engines

Social media and forums

Software

See also

References

Note

External links