List of Tor onion services
Appearance
This is a categorized list of notable onion services (formerly, hidden services)[1] accessible through the Tor anonymity network. Defunct services and those accessed by deprecated V2 addresses are marked.
Archive, Index and Torrent
[edit]- archive.today – Is a web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand [2]
- Demonoid – Torrent[3]
- Internet Archive – A web archiving site
- KickassTorrents (defunct) – A BitTorrent index[4]
- Sci-Hub – Search engine which bypasses paywalls to provide free access to scientific and academic research papers and articles[5]
- The Pirate Bay – A BitTorrent index[6][7]
- Z-Library – Many instances exist[8]
Commerce
[edit]- Agora (defunct)
- AlphaBay (defunct)
- Atlantis (defunct)
- Black Market Reloaded (defunct)
- Dream Market (defunct)
- Evolution (defunct)
- Hansa (defunct)
- Hydra market (defunct)
- Sheep Marketplace (defunct)
- Silk Road (defunct)
- The Farmer's Market (defunct)
- TheRealDeal (defunct)
- Utopia (defunct)
- White House Market (defunct)
Communications
[edit]Messaging
[edit]- Briar (software) – uses onion services as address when message medium is internet[10]
- Cryptocat[11] (defunct)
- Keybase[12]
- Ricochet (software) – uses Tor network by default for message sending and receiving[13]
- TorChat (defunct)
Email providers
[edit]- Bitmessage.ch (defunct)
- Guerrilla Mail[14]
- Mailbox.org[15]
- Proton Mail[16]
- Riseup[17]
- SIGAINT (defunct)
- Tor Mail (defunct)
IRC
[edit]Events
[edit]File storage
[edit]- ProtonDrive
- Freedom Hosting (defunct) – Formerly the largest Tor-specific web host, until the arrest of its owner in August 2013.[21][22]
Financial
[edit]- Blockchain.info (V2)– A popular bitcoin blockchain explorer service[23]
- Helix (defunct)
Government
[edit]- Central Intelligence Agency[24]
- National Police and Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands – An official hidden service about darknet market takedown operations[25]
- The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation[26]
Hidden services directories, portals, and information
[edit]- 1.1.1.1[27] – DNS by Cloudflare
- Mullvad – VPN provider based in Sweden
- Njalla[28] – Domain register, hosting and VPN provider
- The Hidden Wiki – ambiguously forked
- ToSDR[29] (defunct) – website tracking other website's legal documents
News and document archives
[edit]- BBC News[30]
- Bellingcat
- BuggedPlanet (V2)[31]
- BuzzFeed News (V2)[32]
- Current Time TV[33]
- DeepDotWeb (defunct)
- Deutsche Welle[34]
- Die Tageszeitung[35] – German daily
- Doxbin (defunct)
- It's Going Down[36]
- ProPublica[37]
- Radio Free Asia (V2)[38]
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty[39]
- The Guardian[40]
- The Intercept[41]
- The New York Times[42]
- Voice of America
Operating systems
[edit]- Debian (static Web content[43] and package repositories)[19][44]
- DivestOS – Security and privacy-focused LineageOS fork.[45]
- Qubes OS – Security-focused desktop operating system[46]
- Whonix – Debian-based security distribution[47][48]
Whistleblowing / Drop sites
[edit]SecureDrop and GlobaLeaks software is used in most of these whistleblowing sites. These are secure communications platform for use between journalists and sources. Both software's websites are also available as an onion service.[49][50] Websites that use secure drop are listed in a directory.[51]
- 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
- ABC News
- Aftenposten
- Al Jazeera Media Network[52][53]
- Bloomberg News[54] and Bloomberg Law
- CBC News
- CNN International[55]
- Dagbladet
- Distributed Denial of Secrets
- Financial Times
- Forbidden Stories
- HuffPost[56]
- Lawrence Lessig
- NawaatLeaks (v2)[57] – An Arabic whistleblowing initiative operated by Nawaat
- NRK
- Politico
- Reuters
- Süddeutsche Zeitung
- TechCrunch
- Independent Media Center
- The Globe and Mail
- The Washington Post
- Toronto Star
- TV 2 (Denmark)
- Vice Media
- Whistleblower Aid
- Filtrala – A Spanish whistleblowing initiative operated by Associated Whistleblowing Press
- Ljost – An Icelandic whistleblowing initiative operated by Associated Whistleblowing Press
- Die Tageszeitung[35] – German daily
- ProPublica
- The Guardian[58]
- The Intercept[58][59]
- The Markup[60]
- New York Times[61]
- The New Yorker[58]
- WildLeaks – A wildlife-crime whistleblowing initiative operated by Elephant Action League
- WikiLeaks[58] (defunct)
Nonprofit organizations
[edit]- Amnesty International[62]
- Courage Foundation (defunct)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation[63]
- FragDenStaat[64]
- Freedom of the Press Foundation
- Front Line Defenders
- La Quadrature du Net (V2)[65][66]
- Privacy International[67]
- Telecomix (v2, defunct)[68]
- The Tor Project[69]
Pornography
[edit]- Boystown (defunct)
- Childs Play (defunct)
- Lolita City (defunct)
- Playpen (defunct)
- Welcome to Video (defunct)
- Pornhub[70][71] (defunct)
Search engines
[edit]- Ahmia – Search engine
- Brave Search[72]
- BTDigg (defunct)[73]
- DuckDuckGo
- Grams (defunct)
- MetaGer[74]
- Searx[75] – Individual instances use onion address
Social media and forums
[edit]- 8chan – An imageboard
- Dark0de (defunct)
- Dread[76]
- Facebook onion address – Facebook[77]
- HackBB (defunct)
- Kiwifarms
- Reddit[78]
- Russian Anonymous Marketplace (defunct)
- The Hub (defunct)[79]
- Tor Carding Forum (defunct)
- Twitter[80][81] (defunct)[82][83]
Software
[edit]See also
[edit]References
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- ^ "Archive". www.archive.ph/. Retrieved 2022-11-11.
- ^ "Demonoid". www.demonoid.is. Archived from the original on 2022-09-12. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ^ Ernesto (7 June 2016). "KickassTorrents Enters The Dark Web, Adds Official Tor Address". Archived from the original on 1 July 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- ^ Van der Sar, Ernesto (21 November 2015). "Sci-Hub, BookFi and LibGen Resurface After Being Shut Down". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
- ^ Ernesto (7 January 2016). "The Pirate Bay Switches on New .MS Domain". Archived from the original on 11 June 2016. Retrieved 5 July 2016.
- ^ "Download music, movies, games, software! The Pirate Bay – The galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site". thepiratebay.org. Archived from the original on 2020-08-27. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
- ^ "Z-Library. The world's largest ebook library". z-lib.org. Archived from the original on 2021-04-01. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
- ^ "keys.openpgp.org". keys.openpgp.org. Archived from the original on 2022-09-09. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
- ^ "Briar User Manual |". briarproject.org. Archived from the original on 2022-09-22. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
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- ^ "About TorGuerrillaMail". grr.la. Archived from the original on 2022-09-12. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ^ "The Tor exit node of mailbox.org | Knowledge Base". kb.mailbox.org. Archived from the original on 2024-06-15. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ "Encrypted Email Over Tor Setup – Proton Mail Support". Archived from the original on 2017-08-28. Retrieved 2017-01-19.
- ^ "Riseup's Tor Hidden Services". Riseup. Riseup Networks. Archived from the original on 16 October 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
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- ^ Gallagher, Sean (4 August 2013). "Alleged Tor hidden service operator busted for child porn distribution". Archived from the original on 17 May 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2015.
- ^ "Tor Users Can Now Connect to Blockchain.info's .onion Address Securely with SSL". CCN.com. 2014-12-03. Archived from the original on 2022-06-25. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
- ^ "CIA's Latest Layer: An Onion Site". Central Intelligence Agency. Archived from the original on May 8, 2019. Retrieved May 11, 2019.
- ^ "Dutch National Prosecution Service and police launch Hidden Service in global Darknet enforcement operation – Deep Dot Web". deepdotweb.com. Archived from the original on 2017-08-31. Retrieved 2017-08-30.
- ^ Catalin, Cimpanu (2021-04-21). "Russian intelligence agency SVR sets up dark web whistleblowing platform". The Record. Archived from the original on 2024-01-26. Retrieved 2024-01-26.
- ^ "Introducing DNS Resolver for Tor". Cloudflare. 5 June 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-10-02. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ "Njalla — Worlds most notorious privacy provider for domains, VPS' and VPNs". njal.la. Archived from the original on 2024-07-18. Retrieved 2024-04-22.
- ^ "Provide onion service". ToS;DR Community. 2021-04-30. Archived from the original on 2024-07-18. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
- ^ "BBC News launches 'dark web' mirror". BBC. 2019-10-23. Archived from the original on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
- ^ "Buggedplanet.info:About - Buggedplanet.info". buggedplanet.info. Archived from the original on 2022-12-24. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
- ^ The Tor Project [@torproject] (13 August 2018). "Tasty. @BuzzFeedNews now has an onion address thanks to @sricola! Download Tor Browser and give it a visit: https://t.co/G2rQPQVZ2s #onionizetheweb #security #privacy #darkweb https://t.co/RDEXsSz13m" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 8 November 2021. Retrieved 1 December 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty [@RFERL] (6 March 2022). "5/🧵 @SvobodaRadio: https://t.co/F4iKg6eHTt @CurrentTimeTv: https://t.co/5e9ROEFHUI @krymrealii: https://t.co/QAjHs1AsMC" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 15 March 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ "Deutsche Welle websites accessible via Tor-Protocol". Deutsche Welle. 2019-11-20. Archived from the original on 2020-07-16. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
- ^ a b "Anonymer & verschlüsselter Kontakt: Briefkasten für sensible Daten". Die Tageszeitung: taz (in German). 2019-04-15. ISSN 0931-9085. Archived from the original on 2022-09-08. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
- ^ "It's Going Down About". It's Going Down. 2018-06-19. Archived from the original on 2018-06-19. Retrieved 2022-04-29.
- ^ Tigas, Mike. "A More Secure and Anonymous ProPublica Using Tor Hidden Services". ProPublica. Archived from the original on 2022-09-01. Retrieved 2022-09-06.
- ^ "Radio Free Asia hosts secure mirror websites for Asian, Chinese audiences". USAGM. 2020-04-17. Archived from the original on 2020-07-13. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
- ^ Multiple sources:
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty [@RFERL] (6 March 2022). "4/🧵 Download the Tor browser to access dark web versions of our websites in English and Russian. RFE/RL English site on the dark web: https://t.co/Lis77tOKci" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 15 March 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022 – via Twitter.
- Staff Writer. (5 March 2022). "How To Bypass Blocking" Archived 2023-08-28 at the Wayback Machine. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
- ^ "Guardian launches Tor onion service". The Guardian. 2022-05-30. Archived from the original on 2022-10-07. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
- ^ Lee, Micah (2021-04-28). "Browse The Intercept Anonymously and Securely Using Our New Tor Onion Service". The Intercept. Archived from the original on 2023-12-08. Retrieved 2024-04-22.
- ^ Sandvik, Runa (2018-04-26). "The New York Times is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service". Medium. Archived from the original on 2017-10-28. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
- ^ The Debian Project [@debian] (30 July 2016). "DSA announces Debian static websites are now available as Onion services. The list of services may be found on https://t.co/Hyqk3Ps12p" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ Richard Hartmann (25 August 2015). "Tor-enabled Debian mirror". richardhartmann.de. Archived from the original on 16 April 2016.
- ^ "Home – DivestOS Mobile". www.divestos.org. Archived from the original on 2023-06-22. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
- ^ "Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system". Archived from the original on 2021-08-25. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
- ^ "Verification Assets §Whonix Sites". whonix.org. Archived from the original on 12 June 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
- ^ "Datenschutz §Technical Information". whonix.org. Archived from the original on 12 June 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
- ^ Strongbox Archived 2017-04-13 at the Wayback Machine. The New Yorker. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
- ^ Biryukov, Alex; Pustogarov, Ivan; & Weinmann, Ralf-Philipp. (2013). Content and popularity analysis of Tor hidden services Biryukov, Alex; Pustogarov, Ivan; Thill, Fabrice; Weinmann, Ralf-Philipp (2013). "Content and popularity analysis of Tor hidden services". arXiv:1308.6768 [cs.CR].. ArXiv.org (Cornell University Library). Retrieved 15 November 2013.
- ^ "Directory". SecureDrop. Archived from the original on 2022-09-01. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ^ "Tips". Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ^ "Contact Us". Al Jazeera Media Network. Archived from the original on 2019-07-02. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ^ "Submit a Tip to Bloomberg". Bloomberg News. Archived from the original on 2022-09-03. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ^ "Send a tip to CNN". CNN. Archived from the original on 2022-09-18. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ^ "How To Share Information With HuffPost". img.huffingtonpost.com. Archived from the original on 2022-09-12. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ^ المقالات, كل (2014-03-27). "نواة تطلق موقعا خاصا و آمنا لتسريب الوثائق السرية". Nawaat. Archived from the original on 2024-07-18. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
- ^ a b c d "A Guide to the Dark Web's Lighter Side". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on 2020-11-08. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
- ^ "The Intercept Welcomes Whistleblowers". The Intercept. Archived from the original on 2021-02-04. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
- ^ "Have a Tip? – The Markup". themarkup.org. Archived from the original on 2022-09-09. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
- ^ "Tips". The New York Times. 2016-12-14. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
- ^ isabela (5 December 2023). "Amnesty International now available as .onion". Tor blog. Archived from the original on 8 December 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
- ^ Hancock, Alexis (2023-04-26). "EFF Now Has Tor Onions". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Archived from the original on 2024-07-18. Retrieved 2024-04-22.
- ^ "FragDenStaat – Portal für Informationsfreiheit". FragDenStaat (in German). 2024-05-08. Archived from the original on 2024-06-14. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ The Tor Project [@torproject] (20 January 2016). "Our friends La Quadrature Du Net (@laquadrature/@UnGarage) now provide a #Tor onion service! https://t.co/KCw48HcCQv https://t.co/WLSrjIuzmr" (Tweet) (in French). Archived from the original on 3 July 2020. Retrieved 18 March 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ Un Garage [@UnGarage] (1 June 2017). "Reminder, LQDN sites are available on Tor: Searx: https://t.co/RcGg2n1PjL Etherpad: https://t.co/qAcZaPqhuh Website: https://t.co/yhcpSFeboX" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 12 February 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ "Privacy International". privacyinternational.org. Archived from the original on 2022-09-09. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
- ^ "Main page". Archived from the original on 2011-09-25. Retrieved 2016-04-01.
- ^ "onion.torproject.org". onion.torproject.org. Archived from the original on 2022-07-06. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
- ^ Pornhub [@Pornhub] (23 January 2020). "Today we are announcing that we have made a mirror of Pornhub available on Tor!! https://t.co/JcOXENBAS1 https://t.co/hWJlXppFuU" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ Kan, Michael (January 23, 2020). "Pornhub Is Now Available as a Tor Site to Protect Users' Privacy". PCMag UK. Archived from the original on February 24, 2020. Retrieved February 24, 2020.
- ^ a b "Brave.com now has its own Tor Onion Service, providing more users with secure access to Brave". Brave Browser. 2020-10-05. Archived from the original on 2020-10-06. Retrieved 2022-06-24.
- ^ "BTDigg DHT Search Engine: Free Search Engine for Free Torrent Content". Archived from the original on 2013-06-02. Retrieved 2013-06-24.
- ^ "tor hidden service – MetaGer". metager.org. Archived from the original on 2022-08-29. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ "Searx instances". searx.space. Archived from the original on 2022-09-06. Retrieved 2022-09-09.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Facebook (2014, October 31). Facebook Protect the Graph blog Archived 2015-09-14 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 31 October 2014
- ^ "Reddit Onion Service Launch". Reddit. 25 October 2022. Archived from the original on 25 October 2022. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
- ^ "The Biggest Online Drug Market Just Vanished, Taking $12 Million With It". Gizmodo. 2015-03-18. Archived from the original on 2022-09-11. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ Muffett, Alec [@AlecMuffett] (8 March 2022). "This is possibly the most important and long-awaited tweet that I've ever composed. On behalf of @Twitter, I am delighted to announce their new @TorProject onion service, at: https://t.co/Un8u0AEXeE https://t.co/AgEV4ZZt3k" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 17 March 2022. Retrieved 18 March 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ The Verge (2022, March 8). Twitter is launching a Tor service for more secure and private tweeting Archived 2022-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
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Note
[edit]- 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
[edit]Guide to Tor hidden services and elements of the Tor network at Wikibooks
Media related to Tor hidden services at Wikimedia Commons
- Real-World Onion Sites on GitHub