This is a categorized list of notable onion services (formerly, hidden services) accessible through the Tor anonymity network. Defunct services and those accessed by deprecated V2 addresses are marked.
Archive, Index and Torrent archive.todayA web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand DemonoidTorrent Internet ArchiveA web archiving site
KickassTorrents (defunct)A BitTorrent index Sci-Hub (V2)Search engine which bypasses paywalls to provide free access to scientific and academic research papers and articles. The Pirate BayA BitTorrent index Z-LibraryMany instances exist.
Commerce
Agora (defunct) AlphaBay (defunct) Archetyp (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
OpenPGP
Messaging
Briar (software)uses onion services as address when message medium 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 (V2) Mailbox.org Proton Mail Riseup SIGAINT (defunct) Tor Mail (defunct)
IRC
Libera Chat
Educational
HackThisSite
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 National Police and Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands (V2)An official hidden service about darknet market takedown operations The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian FederationThe address is only for whistleblowing via Securedrop.
Hidden services directories, hosting, portals, and information
1.1.1.1DNS by Cloudflare MullvadVPN provider based in Sweden CryptostormVPN provider based in Iceland AirVPNVPN provider based in Italy NjallaDomain register, hosting and VPN provider Certbot The Hidden Wikiambiguously forked ToSDR (defunct)website tracking the terms of service of other websites
News and document archives
BBC News Bellingcat BuggedPlanet (V2) BuzzFeed News (V2) Current Time TV DeepDotWeb (defunct) Deutsche Welle Die TageszeitungGerman daily, only SecureDrop address Doxbin (defunct) I'lam Foundation (defunct) It's Going Down ProPublica Radio Free Asia (V2) Radio Free Europe/Radio LibertyMultiple sources:
Staff Writer. (5 March 2022). "How To Bypass Blocking" . Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Retrieved 28 August 2023. Shahada News Agency The Guardian The Intercept The New York Times (defunct) Voice of America
Operating systems
Debian (static Web content and package repositories) DivestOSSecurity and privacy-focused LineageOS fork Qubes OSSecurity-focused desktop operating system
WhonixDebian-based security distribution
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.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 ABC News Aftenposten Al Jazeera Media Network Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Law CBC News CNN International Dagbladet Distributed Denial of Secrets Financial Times Forbidden Stories HuffPost Lawrence Lessig NawaatLeaks (V2)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 FiltralaA Spanish whistleblowing initiative operated by Associated Whistleblowing Press LjostAn Icelandic whistleblowing initiative operated by Associated Whistleblowing Press Die TageszeitungGerman daily ProPublica The Guardian The Intercept The Markup New York Times The New Yorker WildLeaksA wildlife-crime whistleblowing initiative operated by Elephant Action League WikiLeaks (defunct)
Nonprofit organizations
Amnesty International Courage Foundation (defunct) Electronic Frontier Foundation FragDenStaat Freedom of the Press Foundation Front Line Defenders La Quadrature du Net (V2) Privacy International Telecomix (V2, defunct) The Tor Project
Pornography
Boystown (defunct) Childs Play (defunct) Lolita City (defunct) Playpen (defunct) Welcome to Video (defunct) Kidflix (defunct) Pornhub
Search engines
Ahmia Brave Search BTDigg (defunct) DuckDuckGo Grams (defunct) Kagi MetaGer Searx (defunct)Individual instances use onion address SearXNG Startpage.comStartpage's Tor onion service | Startpage Support
Services BusKill
Social media and forums
8chanAn imageboard Dark0de (defunct) Dread Facebook onion addressFacebookFacebook (2014, October 31). Facebook Protect the Graph blog . Retrieved 31 October 2014 HackBB (defunct) Kiwifarms Reddit Russian Anonymous Marketplace (defunct) The Hub (defunct) Tor Carding Forum (defunct) TwitterThe Verge (2022, March 8). Twitter is launching a Tor service for more secure and private tweeting (defunct)
Software
Brave F-Droid Guardian Project Mailpile (V2) OnionShare
See also
Darknet Tor2web 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.
External links