How to Search Active .Onion Dark Web Sites

 

The Tor network is a series of interconnected nodes that allows anonymous internet use. Tor stands for "The Onion Router," while sites hosted on the service carry the ".onion" top-level domain suffix. Onion sites are inaccessible from your regular browser. They're part of the invisible part of the internet known as the deep web. Or, more precisely, the Tor darknet.

But if you cannot access onion sites using your regular browser, how do you find onion sites? Read on to find out how to search for onion sites on the Tor network—and how to stay safe while doing so.



How Do You Access an Onion Site? You can only access a .onion site through Tor. To access the Tor network, you need the Tor browser. The Tor browser is a modified Mozilla Firefox browser with numerous integrated scripts and add-ons to protect your privacy while browsing onion sites.

The Tor browser is preconfigured to connect to the network, and the developers strongly advise not messing around with the browser settings unless you know what you are doing.

Adding to that, the "know what you're doing" is different from a regular browser in that altering the Tor browser settings can expose your private browsing data to external sources.

Head to the Tor Project site and download the Tor browser (one of many dark web browsers). Browse to the download location, find the Tor Browser folder and select Start Tor Browser. The browser immediately checks for updates. If there is an update, apply it.

How to Find Active Onion Sites

The Tor darknet has similar indexing, though you won't find those sites through Google. At least, not directly.

No, you need a special Tor search engine instead. Alternatively, numerous sites curate lists of onion sites, such as The Hidden Wiki, which you can check out below. There are also onion address search engines such as Ahmia, which allow you to search the Tor network for onion addresses from your regular browser.

The Hidden Wiki

The Hidden Wiki is a general jumping-off point for new darknet visitors. Older mirror versions of The Hidden Wiki exist but feature several outdated sites as well as broken links.

The Hidden Wiki contains links for cryptocurrency wallet services, secure messaging services, domain hosting services, darknet marketplaces, the darknet versions of popular social networks, various chans (like 4chan, but on Tor), and much more. It also has a long list of non-English language sites too.

It's often listed as one of the best darkweb sites to visit, but you really should take the links on there with a pinch of salt. Many of the onion sites listed there are fake, scams, or otherwise.

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