AlphaBay.Market: onion links that actually work (we check)
plain index of .onion services and whatever state they were in the last time our checker poked them through the tor network. every address is re-checked automatically every 30 minutes - a green badge means it answered recently, not that it will answer for you in ten seconds. working links float to the top.
unofficial hobby page. no submissions accepted, nothing sponsored, nothing tracked. if a service on this list looks shady to you - trust your gut, we're just reporting what's up.
The legendary 2010s market, seized in operation bayonet (2017) and relaunched by an original admin - escrow, vendor reputation and monero support.
darknet market with a strict no-weapons policy - the admins ban arms, ammunition and especially hazardous drugs, open registration.
general darknet market - 'everything forbidden except weapons' - drugs, digital goods and more, crypto payment.
online marketplace focused on prohibited digital goods - cracked software, data, accounts - over tor.
darknet market that leans heavily on drugs - javascript recommended off in the tor browser when visiting.
Permanent snapshots of web pages.
The reference implementation of bitcoin - official onion of bitcoincore.org for documentation and release downloads.
Blockchain explorer and search.
Blockstream's open-source bitcoin explorer - look up transactions without linking your ip to your addresses.
Yes, the actual CIA has a tor site. world's weirdest flex.
Privacy email provider publishing two official onions on its own tor page - newer, cleaner, operator-verified.
Anonymous mail host with webmail, imap, pop and its own xmpp chat server - served over dedicated onions.
Long-running anonymous email host in the cock.li tradition - webmail over its own onion.
Metadata-resistant peer-to-peer messaging built directly on onion services - the project site runs as one too.
Collective-run privacy suite: encrypted webmail, searxng search, privatebin, pads, uploads and translation - each with its own onion.
The darknet's main discussion forum - Reddit-style boards for market reputation, opsec and news, home of the market obituary threads.
Hacking and security forum with a gated veteran tier - one of the known names of the underground security scene.
Younger hacking and carding board - tools, tutorials and leaked-data talk; the fast-rising name of the recent directory sweeps.
Long-running onion imageboard - free-speech successor culture of 8chan-era boards, no clearnet account needed.
Veteran russian-language cybercrime forum, running since 2005 - exploits, initial access and malware talk; one of the underground's oldest boards.
International news mirror for censored regions. Two official onions: the news mirror and the full bbc.com site incl. russian and ukrainian.
Open-source investigations outlet - gru exposures, chemical weapons attribution - with an official onion for its readers and researchers.
Darknet news site - market takedowns, arrests and network chatter, on its own onion.
Darknet news and link hub - takedown coverage and current addresses in one place.
German international broadcaster - official onion mirror for censored regions, with onion-location redirect on dw.com.
Riseup-run code hosting and collective infrastructure.
Activist-run VPN since 2010 - site and client area both advertised over onion, bitcoin accepted.
The privacy browser with built-in tor windows - brave.com fully mirrored as an official onion.
Token-based VPN service, tor-friendly.
Upstream of tails, whonix and kicksecure - debian mirrors its web estate, security tracker included, as official onions.
The oldest public search engine for onion services - with abuse filtering and a clone warning of its own.
The only major independent-index search engine with an official onion - searches the whole web, not just hidden services.
The privacy search engine, official tor mirror.
German non-profit meta-search engine - anonymous results mixed from many indexes, onion linked right on the homepage.
The open-source metasearch that proxies google and bing without tracking - volunteer instances with their own onion addresses.