real-world-onion-sites/01-preamble.md

Real-World Onion Sites

This is a list of substantial, commercial-or-social-good mainstream websites which provide onion services.

• no sites with an "onion-only" presence
• no sites for tech with less than (arbitrary) 10,000 users
• no nudity, exploitation, drugs, copyright infringement or sketchy-content sites
• the editor reserves all rights to annotate or drop any or all entries as deemed fit
• updated: see the change history for specifics
• licensed: cc-by-sa
• author/editor: alec muffett

Notes

• If both v2 and v3 addresses are provided for a service, the v3 address will be preferred / cited
• The master list of Onion SSL EV Certificates may be viewed at https://crt.sh/?q=%25.onion
• This file (README.md) is auto-generated; do not submit changes nor pull-requests for it
  • Please submit an Issue for consideration / change requests

RWOS Status Detector

• ✅ site up
• ✳️ site up, and redirected to another page
• 🚫 site up, but could not access the page
• 🛑 site up, but reported a system error
• 🆘 site returned no data, or is down, or curl experienced a transient network error
• 🆕 site is newly added, no data yet

Codes & Exit Statuses

Mouse-over the icons for details of HTTP codes, curl exit statuses, and the number of attempts made on each site.

• codes are from HTTP and are documented elsewhere; RWOS-internal ones include:
  • 901, 902, 903 - malformed HTTP response
  • 904 - HTTP status code parse error
  • 910 - connection timeout
• exits are from Curl and are documented elsewhere; common ones include:
  • 7 - "curl couldn't connect"
  • 52 - "curl got nothing", received no data from upstream