CIA.gov
OfficialThe agency's official portal, reachable over Tor since 2019.
ciadotgov4sj…stad.onionOpenInstitutions & platforms
Institutional services, public utilities and major platforms with an .onion version.
It surprises people that government agencies and large consumer platforms run onion services at all. They do, and each case is a different story: the CIA's tip line, Facebook's v3 mirror launched so it could be reached from blocked networks without routing around the company's security, Cloudflare's DNS resolver announced over Tor to remove the DNS-based correlation attack. None of these are niche; all of them are official.
4 listings · Last reviewed April 20, 2026
Tor Metrics
OfficialReal-time statistics on the health and usage of the Tor network.
hctxrvjzfpvm…ftid.onionOpenOfficial Tor mirror of Facebook, migrated to v3 in 2021.
facebookwkhp…tfyd.onionOpenCloudflare 1.1.1.1
OfficialCloudflare's public DNS resolver announced over Tor via an onion service.
dns4torpnlfs…gqad.onionOpenLearn more
- Fundamentals
What is the dark web?
A plain-English explainer on what the dark web actually is, how it differs from the deep web and the dark net, and what lives inside.
- History
Who created the dark web?
From a US Naval Research Lab paper in the mid-1990s to millions of daily users: a short history of the dark web.
- Legality
Is the dark web illegal?
Using Tor is legal almost everywhere. What you do on the dark web is what actually matters. A sober, honest breakdown.
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Search engines
Search engines and community-driven directories that index the Tor network. Start with Deepr.
5 listingsNews & journalism
International newsrooms with an .onion mirror for readers in censored regions.
8 listingsPrivacy & email
Encrypted email, private communications and digital-rights orgs.
4 listingsTools & anonymity
Free software projects focused on anonymity and digital sovereignty.
5 listingsWhistleblowing
Secure channels for investigative journalism and reporting wrongdoing.
6 listingsArchive & knowledge
Archives and software-project mirrors reachable over Tor.
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