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
- 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
- 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
Messaging
- 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
- Bitmessage.ch (defunct)
- Guerrilla Mail[14]
- Mailbox.org[15]
- Proton Mail[16]
- Riseup[17]
- SIGAINT (defunct)
- Tor Mail (defunct)
IRC
Events
File storage
- ProtonDrive
- Freedom Hosting (defunct) – Formerly the largest Tor-specific web host, until the arrest of its owner in August 2013.[21][22]
Financial
- Blockchain.info (V2)– A popular bitcoin blockchain explorer service[23]
- Helix (defunct)
Government
- 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
- 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
- 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
Whistleblowing / Drop sites
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
Pornography
- Boystown (defunct)
- Childs Play (defunct)
- Lolita City (defunct)
- Playpen (defunct)
- Welcome to Video (defunct)
- Pornhub[70][71] (defunct)
Search engines
- 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
Software
See also
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
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
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