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.today – A web archiving site, founded in 2012, that saves snapshots on demand Demonoid – Torrent Internet Archive – A 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 Bay – A BitTorrent index Z-Library – Many 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 Federation – The address is only for whistleblowing via Securedrop.
Hidden services directories, hosting, portals, and information 1.1.1.1 – DNS by Cloudflare Mullvad – VPN provider based in Sweden Cryptostorm – VPN provider based in Iceland AirVPN – VPN provider based in Italy Njalla – Domain register, hosting and VPN provider Certbot The Hidden Wiki – ambiguously 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 Tageszeitung – German daily, only SecureDrop address Doxbin (defunct) I'lam Foundation (defunct) It's Going Down ProPublica Radio Free Asia (V2) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Shahada News Agency The Guardian The Intercept The New York Times (defunct) Voice of America
Operating systems Debian (static Web content and package repositories) DivestOS – Security and privacy-focused LineageOS fork 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 secure communications platform for use between journalists and sources. Both software's websites are also available as an onion service. 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 Filtrala – A Spanish whistleblowing initiative operated by Associated Whistleblowing Press Ljost – An Icelandic whistleblowing initiative operated by Associated Whistleblowing Press Die Tageszeitung – German daily ProPublica The Guardian The Intercept The Markup New York Times The New Yorker WildLeaks – A 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.com
Services BusKill
Social media and forums 8chan – An imageboard Dark0de (defunct) Dread Facebook onion address – Facebook HackBB (defunct) Kiwifarms Reddit Russian Anonymous Marketplace (defunct) The Hub (defunct) Tor Carding Forum (defunct) Twitter (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 Guide to Tor hidden services and elements of the Tor network at Wikibooks Media related to Tor hidden services at Wikimedia Commons
