List of Tor hidden services

This is an alphabetized list of notable .onion hidden services accessible through the Tor anonymity network. Most are considered dark web services. Defunct services are marked.

Web based Hidden Services in January 2015^[1]

Category	Percentage
Gambling	0.4
Guns	1.4
Chat	2.2
New (Not yet indexed)	2.2
Abuse	2.2
Books	2.5
Directory	2.5
Blog	2.75
Porn	2.75
Hosting	3.5
Hacking	4.25
Search	4.25
Anonymity	4.5
Forum	4.75
Counterfeit	5.2
Whistleblower	5.2
Wiki	5.2
Mail	5.7
Bitcoin	6.2
Fraud	9
Market	9
Drugs	15.4

Web based Hidden Services in February 2016^[2][3]

Category	Percentage
Violence	0.3
Arms	0.8
Social	1.2
Hacking	1.8
Illegitimate pornography	2.3
Nexus	2.3
Extremism	2.7
Unknown	3.0
Other illicit	3.8
Finance	6.3
Drugs	8.1
Other	19.6
None	47.7

Hidden services by category

Commerce

• Assassination market
• Agora (on hiatus)
• Atlantis (defunct)
• AlphaBay Market
• Babylon, an Italian language darknet market, shut down in August 2015^[4]
• Black Market Reloaded (defunct)
• C'thulhu - An assassination group that advertises a variety of services, including rape, "underage rape," maiming, bombing, crippling, and murder apparently run by former French foreign legionnaires^[5][6]
• Evolution (defunct)
• Hitman network, a site that claims to offer murder for hire^[7]
• The Farmer's Market (defunct)
• Sheep Marketplace (defunct)
• Silk Road (defunct)
• TheRealDeal
• Utopia (defunct)

Communications

• Bitmessage.ch
• Cryptocat^[8]
• Lelantos, a private and secure email host^[9][10]
• Mailpile^[11]
• Riseup
• Tor Mail (defunct)
• TorChat
• SKS OpenPGP Public Key Server^[12]

Culture

• Deep Web Radio - Worldwide music radio station.^[13]

File storage

• Free Haven - A distributed anonymous file storage system that places focus on persistent availability of data. The MIT students' work on the project led to collaboration with DARPA to develop Tor.^[14][15][16]
• Freedom Hosting (defunct) - Formerly the largest Tor-specific web host, until the arrest of its owner in August 2013.^[17][18]

Financial

• BitBlender, a popular cryptocurrency tumbler. It was hacked in October 2014, but stayed open with the admin promising to pay back lost bitcoins by dropping their commission.^[19][20]
• Bitcoin Fog
• Blockchain.info
• Fund the Islamic Struggle without leaving a trace - site claiming to solicit Bitcoin donations for Islamic terrorism since 2013.^[21] A fake version was once seized by the FBI during Operation Onymous.^[22]
• Helix

Hidden services directories, portals, and information

• All You're Wiki - a wiki similar to The Hidden Wiki additionally featuring static content^[23][24]
• The Hidden Wiki
• Tor Links - a static index of .onion links still around from the earlier days of Tor^[25][26]

News, whistleblowing and archives of document archives

• BuggedPlanet
• DeepDotWeb
• Doxbin (defunct)
• Filtrala, a Spanish whistleblowing initiative operated by Associated Whistleblowing Press
• GlobaLeaks
• Independent Media Center
• The Intercept
• Ljost, an Icelandic whistleblowing initiative operated by Associated Whistleblowing Press
• NawaatLeaks, an Arabic whistleblowing initiative operated by Nawaat
• ProPublica
• Wikileaks

Nonprofit organizations

• Courage Foundation
• Debian (package repositories)^[27]
• Freedom of the Press Foundation
• La Quadrature du Net^[28]
• Qubes OS^[29]
• Telecomix^[30]
• Whonix^[31][32]

Pornography

• Cruel Onion Wiki - a hidden service wiki featuring sexualised torture and killing of animals.^[33]
• Lolita City (defunct)
• Pink Meth - a hidden service featuring revenge porn, driven to Tor from the clearnet by legal action,^[34] the site was shut down in Operation Onymous,^[35] only for an archive to later return.^[36] In October 2015 it was reported that someone may be trying to make the archive interactive once more.^[37]

Search engines

• Ahmia, hidden service search
• BTDigg^[38]
• DuckDuckGo
• Grams
• Onion Link, a clearnet based search engine which features its own Tor2web implementation to allow direct site access via the .onion link domain.^[39][40]
• Sci-Hub, search engine which bypasses paywalls to provide free access to scientific and academic research papers and articles^[41]
• The Pirate Bay^[42]
• TORCH, a hidden search search engine which scans lists of .onion addresses to build its indexes^[43]
• TorSearch, the first hidden service search engine launched in October 2013 based on spidering a Hidden Wiki^[44][45]

Social media and forums

• 8chan
• Chinese dark web - one of the very few Mandarin Internet forums. Launched in October 2014 the forum encourages free discussion and trade with Bitcoin similar to the Russian Anonymous Marketplace.^[46] The site does not have much illegal activity but has featured discussions about creating improvised explosive devices.^[47]
• Darkode
• Facebook^[48]
• HackBB (defunct)
• Hell, a notorious hacking and scamming forum. It shut down for 2 weeks in July 2015 following May's Adult FriendFinder hack.^[49][50] It returned some time in early 2016.^[51]
• The Hub
• TorBook - social network^[52]
• Tor Carding Forum (defunct)
• Russian Anonymous Marketplace

Other

• Yale University, Computer Architecture and Security Laboratory

See also

• Tor software
• .onion
• SecureDrop, a secure communications platform for use between journalists and sources. The first implementation was The New Yorker's Strongbox website.^[53][54][55]
• Tor2web, clearnet to hidden service software

• Dark Web

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External links

• Guide to Tor hidden services and elements of the Tor network at Wikibooks