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This is a categorized list of notable onion services (formerly, hidden services) accessible through the Tor anonymity network. Defunct services are marked as well as services with known only with deprecated v2 addresses are marked.

Archive and Index

* archive.today - Is a web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand
* Demonoid - Torrent

* Sci-Hub – Search engine which bypasses paywalls to provide free access to scientific and academic research papers and articles
* KickassTorrents (defunct) – A BitTorrent index
* The Pirate Bay – A BitTorrent index
* Z-Library – Many instances exist

Commerce

* Agora (defunct)
* AlphaBay - active again
* Atlantis (defunct)
* Black Market Reloaded (defunct)
* Dream Market (defunct)
* Evolution (defunct)
* Hansa (defunct)
* Sheep Marketplace (defunct)
* Silk Road (defunct)
* The Farmer's Market (defunct)
* TheRealDeal (defunct)
* Utopia (defunct)

Communications

* OpenPGP

Messaging

* Briar (software) – uses onion services as address when message transport is internet
* Cryptocat(defunct)
* Keybase
* Ricochet (software) - uses tor network by default for message sending and receiving
* TorChat (defunct)

Email providers

* Bitmessage.ch (defunct)
* Guerrilla Mail
* Proton Mail
* Riseup
* SIGAINT (defunct)
* Tor Mail (defunct)

Events

* Debian Conference
* DEF CON

File storage

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

Financial

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

Government

* Central Intelligence Agency
* Law enforcement in the Netherlands, 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 – ambiguously forked

News, index and document archives

* BBC News
* BuggedPlanet(v2)
* BuzzFeed News(v2)
* Current Time TV
* ''DeepDotWeb'' (defunct)
* Deutsche Welle
* Die Tageszeitung – German daily
* Doxbin (defunct)
* It's Going Down
* ProPublica
* Radio Free Asia(v2)
* Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
* The Guardian
* ''The New York Times''

Operating systems

*Debian (static WWW, Web content and package repositories)
* Qubes OS – Security-focused desktop operating system
* Whonix – Debian-based security distribution

Whistleblowing / Drop sites

SecureDrop and GlobaLeaks 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). arxiv:1308.6768, 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
* ABC News (Australia), ABC News
* Aftenposten
* Al Jazeera Media Network
* Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Law
* CBC News
* CNN International
* Dagbladet
* Financial Times
* Forbidden Stories
* HuffPost
* Lawrence Lessig
* NRK
* Politico
* Reuters
* Süddeutsche Zeitung
* TechCrunch
* Indymedia, Independent Media Center
* The Globe and Mail
* The Washington Post
* Toronto Star
* TV 2 (Denmark)
* Vice Media
* Whistleblower Aid
* Associated Whistleblowing Press#Filtrala, Filtrala – A Spanish whistleblowing initiative operated by Associated Whistleblowing Press
* Associated Whistleblowing Press#Ljost, Ljost – An Icelandic whistleblowing initiative operated by Associated Whistleblowing Press
* Die Tageszeitung – German daily
* Nawaat#Nawaatleaks, NawaatLeaks – An Arabic whistleblowing initiative operated by Nawaat
* ''ProPublica''
*''The Guardian''
* ''The Intercept''
* The Markup
*''The New York Times, New York Times''
*''The New Yorker''
* Elephant Action League#WildLeaks Project, WildLeaks – A wildlife-crime whistleblowing initiative operated by Elephant Action League
* WikiLeaks

Nonprofit organizations

* Courage Foundation
* Forbidden Stories
* Freedom of the Press Foundation
* Front Line Defenders
* La Quadrature du Net(v2)
* Privacy International
* Telecomix(v2, defunct)
* The Tor Project

Pornography

* Boystown (website), Boystown (defunct)
* Childs Play (website), Childs Play (defunct)
* Lolita City (defunct)
* Playpen (website), Playpen (defunct)
* Welcome to Video case, Welcome to Video (defunct)
* Pornhub

Search engines

* Ahmia – Search engine
* Brave Search
* BTDigg(defunct)
* DuckDuckGo#Tor access, DuckDuckGo
* Grams (search), Grams (defunct)
* MetaGer#Features, MetaGer
* Searx - Individual instances use onion address

Social media and forums

* 8chan – An imageboard
* Dark0de (defunct)
* Dread (forum), Dread
* Facebook onion address – FacebookFacebook (2014, October 31)
Facebook Protect the Graph blog
. Retrieved 31 October 2014
* HackBB (defunct)
* Reddit
* Russian Anonymous Marketplace (defunct)
* The Daily Stormer – American Neo-Nazism, neo-Nazi commentary- and Internet forum, message board
* The Hub (forum), The Hub(defunct)
* Tor Carding Forum (defunct)
* TwitterThe Verge (2022, March 8)
Twitter is launching a Tor service for more secure and private tweeting
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Software

* Brave (web browser), Brave
* Guardian Project (software), Guardian Project
* Mailpile(v2)

See also

* Darknet
* Tor2web – clearnet (networking), Clearnet-to-hidden-service software

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.

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