New Sites to Explore in Deep Web

New Sites To Explore

Reddit user NekroTor is on a quest to reboot many of the Freedom Hosting sites that were taken down. On February 16th of this year, on his onion-routed blog, Nekrotown, he wrote, "2 days ago the BlackMarket Reloaded forum got seized. On the same day, the long-awaited Utopia Market was seized, which just goes to show that all the markets fucking suck these days except for Agora and TMP, and that you should just wait until BlackMarket Reloaded opens up again... eventually ...5 years later, no BMR."
NekroTor is correct in writing that most of the content right now on the Dark Web is not that great. On top of the fact that there used to be a wealth of sites for illegal black market interactions, there also used to be radio, books, blogs, political conversations, and even an Encyclopedia Dramatica that was a satirical culture-based wiki and is now laden with porn and pop-ups.
NekroTor created a new version of Hidden Wiki that has some functional links to audio and video streaming as well as some up-to-date forums for socializing and buying and selling. There are still a few image boards left, but the popular Onii-chan has the words "Well be back later" typed over spinning dildos.

Redditors Who Are Reaching Out For Deep Web Direction

After watching House of Cards, user TrelianScar turned to Reddit for guidance on how to navigate the Dark Web. TrelianScar is not alone. The Deep Web is making appearances in the media, in dinner conversations, and of course on Internet forums. One user jokingly writes to TrelianScar saying, "Wait till we send you an iPad. Then talk to the Dutch oil painting. Then await instructions," referencing HOC's unrealistic depiction of Deep Web interactions.
On a more serious note though, user Serbia_Strong writes, "What are you looking for first of all? Drugs? Guns? Assassins? Credit cards or counterfeit cash? I'd start your journey at the Hidden Wiki and then narrow in on your interests. I pretty much save every site I come across (you can't exactly just google them). Start at The Hidden Wiki and if you need any links just ask. Enjoy your descent into madness :)"
Another user, Dexter-Del-Rey explained a similar conundrum last week—he too is new to the Deep Web and wants some functional starter links. Redditor Ampernand writes back saying, "On the topic of torchan... here's a good piece on how it fell authored by the previous host. Currently torchan is hosted by someone that allows cp, gore etc, censors critics and doesn't give a flying fuck about the community. Effectively torchan has become exactly what it was trying to not be. Also, nntpchan is better." Ampernand links to NNTP-chan, which is a new forum replacing the image board Onii-chan.
New channels are popping up daily in the Deep Web. Currently, marketplace alternatives to Silk Road, Agora, and Pandora are the most frequented. Nonetheless, both TrelianScar and Dexter-Del-Rey were each respectively warned in their threads that the Dark Web is chock-full of scammers and is quite unlike its Hollywood depiction.
Interestingly, the Deep Web has lost much of its stigma over the past year and mainstream web services are experimenting with the platform even if they're not embracing it. In late October 2014, Facebook enabled Tor browser users to visit them anonymously, saying in a press release that "It’s important to us at Facebook to provide methods for people to use our site securely."

An Up-To-Date Layman's Guide To Accessing The Deep Web

If you binge-watched the second season of House of Cards, along with a reported 15% of Netflix's 44 million subscribers, you may be newly interested in the Deep Web. Slate has done a good job of describing what the Deep Web is and isn't, but they don't tell you how to get there.

How To Access The Deep Web

First: the hot sheets. Subreddit forums for DeepWeb, onions, and Tor are the way to go in terms of gathering a backgrounder for entry points into DarkNet. Unsurprisingly though, much of the information currently on the surface Internet about the actual underbelly of the web is outdated. Ever since Silk Road's takedown last year, the Under-web has been changing.
To get into the Deep Web these days, you first have to download the Tor add-on for Firefox. By downloading the Tor Browser Bundle from the Tor Project you are securing your anonymity to browse, which is the main draw for using Tor. Once you have downloaded the browser bundle, Tor builds a circuit of encrypted connections through a randomized relay. In layman's terms that means that your online activity is covered as Tor randomly pings your IP address from one place to the other, making whatever you do less traceable.

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Multiple Redditors urge reading the Tor Project's warning page, where they discourage torrent file sharing and downloading while using Tor. The idea is to follow protocol maintaining your anonymity while browsing, chatting, or navigating. This obviously includes giving away your personal information like email addresses, phone numbers, names, time zones, or home addresses in any context.

The newest iteration of the Tor browser, Tor 4.0, was released in October 2014. It contains a variety of product tweaks designed primarily to enable use behind China's massive Internet firewall.
Other precautions include placing duct tape on your webcam, enabling your computer's firewall, and turning off cookies and JavaScript. Again, here is where you want to be completely free of an identity, so treading cautiously is key. The NSA and other government outlets peruse the Dark Web and onion sites frequently using cross-reference tools, malware, and remote administration tools to de-anonymize users engaging in illegal activity.
While the Deep Web houses the retail of weapons, drugs, and illicit erotica, there are also useful tools for journalists, researchers, or thrill seekers. It's also worth noting that mere access through Tor is not illegal but can arouse suspicion with the law. Illegal transactions usually begin on the Deep Web but those transactions quite often head elsewhere for retail, private dialoguing, or in-person meetups; that's how most people get caught by law enforcement officials.
For mobile users, several browsers exist which purport to—more or less—allow Tor to be used on an Android or iOS device. These browsers include OrWeb, Anonymous Browser Connect Tor, the mobile Firefox add-on, Onion Browser, and Red Onion. However, it is important to note that security concerns have been raised for all of these browsers and that anonymous browsing cannot be 100% guaranteed for any of these.

Where To Go Once You're On The Inside

After reading up on the material, downloading Tor, and logging out of every other application, you can finally open Tor's Browser Bundle to begin secure navigation. Network navigation is slow once you are inside because of the running relay, so expect pages to load at a snail's pace.
The most common suggestion on Reddit is to start at the "Hidden Wiki." The Hidden Wiki has a similar interface as Wikipedia and lists by category different sites to access depending on your interest. Categories include: Introduction Points, News/History, Commercial Services, Forums/Boards/Chans, and H/P/A/W/V/C (Hack, Phreak, Anarchy, Warez, Virus, Crack) just to name a few. Under each of these headings are multiple sites with an onion address and a brief description of what you will find there.
Many of the listed sites on the Hidden Wiki though have been taken down. Deep Web Tor, Tor Jump, Tor Answers, and Tor.info were all busts. When the feds took down Silk Road, many other sites also fell victim and/or are currently down for maintenance. Still, gun, drug, and child porn marketplaces operate even though they are on much smaller scales and with a fraction of the reach than that of Silk Road or Atlantis, another drug-peddling site.
Some pages are less nefarious, but arouse your curiosity nonetheless. StaTors.Net is the Twitter for Tor users and Hell Online is the antisocial network with 369 members and 15 different groups. Torchan resembles Reddit, though you need to enter the username and password torchan2 for access, and is still up and running. But recent activity except in Request and Random rooms has all but stopped.

In the Random room a user asked for a new link to Silk Road and the responses were limited. Another user posting an image of a child fully clothed featuring bare feet pleading for a site featuring underage bare feet. An Anonymous user responded: "Someone please give this guy a link, this poor guy has been looking/asking for over a month now."
One popular chat service is OnionChat, an anonymous Tor-based real-time chat room quasi-affiliated with the Onions subreddit. The project's code is available on GitHub as well.
The DeepWeb Link Directory in the site OnionDir had some promising hyperlinks and some not-so-promising ones like the now defunct Deep Web Radio and a blog claiming to be a Deep Web blog but was actually just stories dedicated to spanking.

The New Yorker Strongbox is a secure transmission for writers and editors where I was given the code name: riddle yeah abreacts murgeoning. Through a given codename you can submit a message and/or file to the New Yorker's editorial staff. Mike Tigas, a news application developer for ProPublica, has a functioning blog in the Deep Web but has not posted anything new for some time, which was true for many other blogs as well

PayPal Announces First Partnerships in Bitcoin Space

PayPal has announced partnerships with three major payment processors in the bitcoin space – BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin.
Though the online e-commerce pioneer stopped short of integrating bitcoin into its digital wallet or payment processing services directly, the move marks PayPal's first formal offering to the bitcoin community.
In a blog post penned by senior director of corporate strategy Scott Ellison, PayPal revealed that online merchants will now be able to accept bitcoin via all three companies through its PayPal Payments Hub, its product that enables customers to accept credit cards, mobile carrier payments and other payment methods through a single integration.
Ellison lauded BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin for their commitment to ensuring consumer protections on their platforms, while suggesting that the offering will appeal to a number of its key customer groups, writing:

"We believe digital goods merchants will be excited to work with these industry-leading companies to sell ringtones, games and music and get paid with bitcoin."

Notably, the announcement follows the decision of PayPal subsidiary Braintree to partner with Coinbase earlier this month.
PayPal is available in 193 markets and 26 currencies. With 143 million active registered accounts and $6.6bn in revenue at the end of 2013, the e-commerce giant brings the potential for new users and new business to the bitcoin economy.

Embracing innovation

Ellison went on to suggest that PayPal is committed to embracing innovation, and that this has lead to its early support of bitcoin. Further, he suggested the company will be monitoring its first formal bitcoin trial to assess how it moves forward with the payment method, writing:

"We’re proceeding gradually, supporting bitcoin in some ways today and holding off on other ways until we see how things develop."

PayPal cited its commitment to allowing businesses freedom of choice and promoting safer buying experiences as key reasons for its decision.
BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin will pay a referral fee to PayPal for new business they gain through the platform, meaning their existing pricing structures will be unaffected by the move.

How To Buy Bitcoins With Your Credit Card Part Two

CoinMama

CoinMama offers its services worldwide including the US. Instantly buy bitcoin using credit/debit card. Users can also use cash to purchase via Western Union and MoneyGram. With over 2 years of reputation, CoinMama is known for its fast straight forward services.

CoinMX

CoinMX - Accepts worldwide users (mainly from the US). you can use your credit card to fund your CoinMX account and buy BTC or LTC currencies. Requires verification of identity by sending a video holding a government issued ID (e.g. passport) to the site.

Cryptonit

Cryptonit.net allows you to make deposits in USD and EUR using Paypal. After you deposit USD/EUR you can trade it to BTC. In order to deposit via Paypal you must pass verification procedure: you will have to provide a set of documents and pass a video interview. Cryptonit has Paypal deposits enabled since October 2013. Daily deposit limits via paypal are 300 USD/EUR. It is important that you deposit Cryptonit account using your Paypal balance but not a credit card.

Indacoin

Indacoin.com Indacoin is a global platform that lets people from all over the world buy bitcoins with a credit or debit card. We have clients from the US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Russia, Ukraine, Spain, Italy, Poland, Turkey, Australia, Japan and many others. Live chat is also available for our customers.The verification is extremely simple: you need to enter a code from the bank statement and a code from the sms. It won't take more than 15-20 minutes.

MeetPays

MeetPays is a Spanish Startup that provides secure and comfortable tools to buy bitcoins instantly anywhere, anytime.

Trucoin.com

Trucoin - allows users to buy Bitcoin with credit and debit cards. Trucoin is the first properly licensed money service business to offer this service and serves U.S. customers in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, American Samoa, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Wake Island, West Virginia, and Wyoming, with more states and worldwide locations coming soon.

Virwox

The Virtual World Exchange also known as VirWox allows you to buy SLL (Second life Lindens) with all major credit cards which you can then exchange to Bitcoins on VirWox itself. The process is done through the use of Paypal, so every credit card which Paypal accepts is eligible to be used in this process.

Avoiding Scams

Before using any service it is a good idea to look for reviews and feedback from previous customers. This can be done by simply googling the name of the website or company. The bitcointalk forums are also a good place to find discussions and reviews about services. As far as we know, these are the only two services that can reliably be used to buy bitcoins with your credit card.

How To Buy Bitcoins With Your Credit Card

Intro

While it is risky for sellers to offer this option, some services now will allow you to buy bitcoins with your credit card. However, that does not mean it is entirely risk free, if you are from Asia or Africa your funds may be frozen by credit card payment processors for further inspection due to the large amounts of fraud that come from those continents.
Note: If you only want to take advantage of Bitcoin's price volatility You can trade CFDs on Bitcoin via a credit card on sites like AvaTrade or Plus500. When trading online your capital may be at risk. Trading CFDs is suitable for more experienced traders.

247exchange

247exchange.com allows to buy Bitcoin with credit and debit cards. Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, Visa Electron supported. All kinds of cards, including the prepaid ones, accepted. Different currencies - USD, EUR, GBP - offered. Secure service having a license for financial activity and PCI compliance certification. Requires user verification (to avoid fraudulent transactions). Currently the service doesn't work with users from USA and Canada (it requires to have the additional licenses which the company plans to get in 2015-16).

BitcoinGiftCard.org

"Bitcoin Gift Card" allows customers from around the world to purchase Bitcoin gift cards & pay by credit card through PayPal. Gift cards are shipped to a physical address provided by the customer, so it can take 2 or 3 days to get your Bitcoins in the US & Canada or up to 1 week outside of North America.

Bitcoin Insanity

Bitcoin Insanity offers multiple payment methods, making purchasing bitcoins a breeze. They accept all major credit cards, PayPal, bank wires, and cashiers checks. Payment is done either through Paypal's terminal or Mijireh Checkout.

BitSource.org

BitSource.org - BitSource - BitSource now accepts all major credit cards (Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express) and ACH account funding options. Be sure to read the FAQ before depositing.

Bittylicious

Bittylicious allows users in Europe (E.E.A.) to buy bitcoins using a credit or debit card, as long as the card is 3D Secure enabled. Users need to validate ID before purchasing.

Brawker

Brawker is a platform where bitcoin owners can order anything they want on the Internet and have it paid by someone else in fiat money who will then take the bitcoins in exchange. Bitcoin owners can order anything they want on the Internet and get a 6% cash back on their purchase. People interested in buying bitcoins can do so by fulfilling someone else's order with their credit card or Paypal account and obtain the equivalent amount in bitcoins.

CC2BTC

CC2BTC.NET allows users from anywhere in the world to buy Bitcoin vouchers with Credit Card. Voucher issued instantly, but the "unlock" code is mailed by priority mail. Payments will transact over Stripe

CEX.IO

CEX.IO Bitcoin Exchange allows users to buy Bitcoins for USD or EUR with payment card (credit/debit card, prepaid card, etc.) or wire transfer and withdraw earnings at one place. Deposits in USD and EUR available. On October, 2014 CEX.IO enabled EUR deposits via SEPA and claimed to benefit its users with lower fees.

CleverCoin.com

CleverCoin Bitcoin Exchange based in The Netherlands that allows user to buy, sell and store bitcoins for EUR. Payment options are iDEAL, SEPA and credit cards (VISA and MasterCard).

Buy Bitcoins With Paypal & Credit Cards!

Paypal and Bitcoin Streamline the Online Purchasing Process

Paypal is one of the most trusted and popular services for online transactions these days. Paypal is everywhere now, as many merchants and traders have adopted it with open arms.
Bitcoin is another method of conducting online transactions, which has carved out its own place in the market. Bitcoin is a decentralized, digital currency, with a fixed supply, that reduces the need for using physical or hard money.
On one hand, Paypal makes online, fiat transactions fast and easy. On the other hand, Bitcoin is both a currency and payment system that operates independently of the fiat monetary system, thereby making online purchases more like an equivalent of cash purchases in the real world—whereas Paypal is merely an intermediary between the Internet and a Physical bank.
The speed, security, and convenience of Bitcoin has of course created an ever-increasing demand for the digital currency. As a result, online Bitcoin exchanges—a popular avenue for buying and selling bitcoins—have popped up in droves.
However, one may ask the question: can I buy bitcoins using Paypal, so I do not have to directly link my bank account to a Bitcoin exchange? Yes, here’s how:
Successfully Buying Bitcoins With Paypal

Many people who have used Bitcoin and Paypal say that using Paypal to buy Bitcoin is a very difficult process. If we take a glance at the previous track record of buying Bitcoin via Paypal, we will see that people have indeed faced many inconveniences with Paypal. These difficulties arise due to recurring situations where a person uses Paypal to buy Bitcoin, and then initiates a chargeback, in which the person claims to never have received the bitcoins, and demands a refund from the Bitcoin seller. It is said that Paypal often favors fraudulent merchants, so most Bitcoin traders expect this system to be dangerous with a high chance of having their money stolen, and may opt to refrain from purchasing bitcoins through Paypal.
It is possible to successfully use paypal to buy bitcoins, though, and sell them for a higher prices through online marketplaces, such as LocalBitcoins and eBay. There are two methods that will allow one to buy bitcoins with Paypal: Virwox or credit cards. Virwox charges a commission fee for using its services, but it is, by far, easier to buy bitcoins through Paypal with Virox than by using a credit card. Therefore, we will show you how to use Virwox to successfully buy bitcoins through Paypal.
How to Buy Bitcoins With Paypal by Using Virwox

We have Created a tutorial to explain the Virwox method—here is a general overview of the steps you will have to take to use this process:
– Visit the website Virwox.com
– Register for an account on that website.
– Then, add funds to your Virwox account via Paypal
– Buy Linden$ (SLL) with USD/EUR
– Buy bitcoins with your linden$ (SLL)
– At least send your Bitcoin to your wallet.

Hidden Wiki Tor Deep Web Link List

Download Tor Browser Bundle from torproject.org to browse .onion web sites found on torhiddenwiki.com your homepage for accessing the deep web / Darknet urls. Updated 1-2015

Introduction Points

• TORLINKS Directory for .onion sites, moderated.
• TorSearch Search engine for Tor Hidden Services.
• DuckDuckGo – A Hidden Service that searches the clearnet.
• TORCH – Tor Search Engine. Claims to index around 1.1 Million pages.
• TorFind – The .onion Search Engine.
• Grams – Search Darknet Markets and more.
• Onion Hound – A search engine for hidden .onion sites on the Tor network. – DOWN 2014-07-13

Financial Services

Currencies, banks, money markets, clearing houses, exchangers.

• EasyCoin – Bitcoin Wallet with free Bitcoin Mixer.
• WeBuyBitcoins – Sell your Bitcoins for Cash (USD), ACH, WU/MG, LR, PayPal and more.
• EUR & USD Counterfeits 100, 50 and 20 bills. secure vendor.
• PayPal Accounts for sale with socks5 proxy.
• CardOnline Online credit cards for sale
• OnionWallet – Anonymous Bitcoin Wallet and Bitcoin Laundry.
• Cheap Euros – 20€ Counterfeit bills. Unbeatable prices!!
• PayPal Express – Hacked PayPal accounts. Clearnet Escrow Accepted

Commercial Services

• Kamagra for Bitcoin – Same as Viagra but cheaper!
• Mobile Store – Factory unlocked iphones and other smartphones.
• UK Guns and Ammo – Selling Guns and Ammo from the UK for Bitcoins.
• Rent-A-Hacker – Hacking, DDOS, Social Engeneering, Espionage, Ruining people.
• Onion Identity Services – Selling Passports and ID-Cards for Bitcoins.
• HQER – High quality euro bills replicas / counterfeits.
• Double your Bitcoins – Service that doubles your bitcoins. No risk. Clean coins.
• Bitcoin Doubler – Bitcoin Malleability Exploit! We use it to double Your funds.
• Social Hack – Social Media password retrieval. Escrow (clearnet) accepted!
• iPhone Tor – Your one-stop-shop for all iPhones. Clearnet Escrow Accepted. Down | 2014-07-25
• Hidden BetCoin – Proven fair bitcoin game, bet and win, double your coins! Proven fair trusted game. Down | 2014-07-29
• Executive Outcomes – The largest website selling weapons in TOR network.
• Onix Electronics iPhone 5s Superstore. SALE! Escrow accepted. Down | 2014-07-25
• USA/EU Fake Documents store – The best place for buy UK,US,EU,JP,AU passports online. FREE express delivery.
• Hackintosh – Apple Products discount from regular prices.The old “Apple’s TOR” from 2K10 is back with more products
• USD Counterfeits – High quality USD counterfeits.
• EuroGuns – Your #1 european arms dealer.
• UK Passports – Original UK Passports. Down | 2014-07-25
• TorWeb The largest hosting company on TOR. Offering webhosting and VPS packages
• USfakeIDs – High quality USA Fake Drivers Licenses.
• United States Citizenship Become a True US Citizen – Selling Citizenship.
• RealCard The most trusted CC vendor on TOR
• Old Man Fixer’s Fixing Services The internet’s one-stop-shop for all things illicit and devious
• USA Citizenship – Become a citizen of the USA, real USA passport.
• Hitman Network – Group of contract killers from the US/Canada and EU.
• cnet.com hacked – full source + database download
• Apples4Bitcoin – Cheap Apple products for Bitcoin.
• ccPal – CCs, CVV2s, Ebay, Paypals and more.
• EuroGuns – Your #1 european arms dealer.
• Deep Fruit – Apple products for a fraction of the price.
• Chloroform – Discretion is vital.
• Working Bitcoin Exploit Buy the exploit to a working bitcoin exploit + shellcode
• Global Guns – Buy Guns with Bitcoins Worldwide delivery.
• Tor web developer – Anonymous web developer for hire.
• Buy Twitter Followers – Twitter followers being sold for Bitcoins.
• Golden Nugget – Transform your bitcoins in Gold bars. The best stolen gold supplier on deepweb.
• PayPal to Bitcoins We sell PayPal accounts and send Bitcoins directly to You.
• TorGameDepot – Playstation 4, Xbox One, Wii U Consoles & Bundles.
• Help Guy – Work in your interests, business partner, friend or whatever else.
• The Discount Store – Electronics at big discounts, check out our latest stock.
• New Identity – Fake documents service online. 3-5 days express delivery worldwide.
• Unfriendlysolution Contract Killer, Assassination service with no limits.
• Clone CC Crew – No.1 Trusted onion site for Cloned Credit Card. $2000/$5000 balance available.
• Samsungstore Samsung tablets, smartphones, notebooks.Escrow accepted.
• TelAvivService – Professional anonymous global goods partners.
• Tor Technology – We’re Back! All Items at 25-30+% discounted price. All products in stock! Limited pieces available.
• /IBusiness | Offshore, Offline Managed Investment Account
• Passport Central – Deep web seller for worldwide passport, ID’s and driver’s licenses. Express shipping.

Drugs

• Agora – Marketplace with escrow. Drugs, guns and more…
• Lion Pharma — Lion Pharma store! EU vendor for Steroids! English support in our Forum!
• NLGrowers – Coffee Shop grade Cannabis from the netherlands.
• Peoples Drug Store – The Darkweb’s Best Online Drug Supplier!
• Smokeables – Finest Organic Cannabis shipped from the USA.
• EuCanna – ‘First Class Cannabis Healthcare’ – Medical Grade Cannabis Buds, Rick Simpson Oil, Ointments and Creams.
• EU DRUGSTORE – Best EU Store Ever.
• CannabisUK – UK Wholesale Cannabis Supplier.
• DeDope – German Weed and Hash shop. (Bitcoin)
• BitPharma – EU vendor for cocaine, speed, mdma, psychedelics and subscriptions.
• Brainmagic – Best psychedelics on the darknet.
• Green Dragon UK – Cannabis tincture, prompt delivery, low prices.
• TOM Tor Onion Market – Advanced secure bitcoin market for drugs.
• OnionShop – New anonymous and secure marketplace selling drugs, weapons…
• Topina – Marketplace with bitcoin multi-sig escrow. Drugs, weapons,credit card and more.

Hosting / Web / File / Image

• TorWeb The largest hosting company on TOR. Offering webhosting and VPS packages
• Tor Host – Hidden Service Hosting with SSH login. Down | 2014-07-29
• Web Hosting — Web Hosting – PHP5, MySQL, SFTP Access, .onion Domain. 24 hours free hosting.
• TorShops – Get your own .onion store with full bitcoin integration.
• bittit, clearnet – Host and sell your original pictures for Bitcoins.
• Liberty’s Hackers Service and Hosting Provider in onionland – php5/mysql support – request considered on a case by case. Down | 2014-06-20
• Liberty’s Hackers – new address for the liberty’s hackers hidden service, same conditions that above. Down | 2014-06-20
• CYRUSERV – Hosting service with an emphasis on security, open for business again.
• Onionweb filehosting – Filehosting service. 100MB upload limit, no illegal files allowed.
• TorVPS Shells — Free torified shell accounts, can be used for .onion hosting, IRC, etc.
• img.bi — open source image hosting with AES-256 in-browser encryption. Down | 2014-06-20
• Password Recovery – Need access to a account fast? We can get access to anything! No questions asked.
• Onion Service – Looking presence in the onion word? – Web Design and hosting for your deep projects

Blogs / Essays / Wikis

• AYPSELA newson/ OnionSphere] – Personal site by nachash for sharing tor tips and other silliness.
• [http://newsiiwanaduqpre. — A private minecraft server blog. Down | 2014-06-20
• Beneath VT – Information on the steam tunnels at Virginia Tech.
• KavkazCenter — A Middle East news provider, multiple languages.
• OnionNews — Biggest deep web news website, daily updates. Down | 2014-06-20
• Green Star Station — Very small personal page with links to Tor, Duck Duck Go, and The Hidden Wiki. Quoting: Given the nature of the site, you may not reach it. Remember to take advantage when you find it online! Down | 2014-06-20
• Jiskopedia – A multilingual wikipedia for Tor and I2P networks.

Forums / Boards / Chans

• Wall Street – Paypal accounts, credit cards, we have everything!!
• The Hub – The Hub Forum.
• All You’re – “All You’re” Portal.
• Evolution Forums Evolution Community Forums. Redirect link http://evolution.to
• Torbook – The Tor Social Network, get in Contact with other
• TORFORUM – Multilingual forum. Down | 2014-07-29
• Tor.info – Forums on all topics.
• CODE:GREEN Hacktivist Forum – Ethical hacktivism for a better world Down | 2014-07-29
• Onionforum 3.0 New Onionforum replacement since 1.0 and 2.0 are down now. Down | 2014-07-29
• Tor Banking Forum Tor’s only banking dedicated forum and marketplace. Down | 2014-07-29
• TCF – Tor Carding Forums + Market.
• Agora Forum Agora Marketplace official forum.
• Pandora Forum Pandora Marketplace official forum.
• Underground Market Board 3.0 Project contribution and marketplace.
• Torchan – /b/, /i/, programming, revolution, tons of other boards.
• The Intel Exchange – Know or need to know something? Ask and share at this underground intelligence gathering network. (New Board. Much Better) (2013-08-11 UTC Appears that admins have ditched?)
• Torduckin0 #1st – Citadel BBS with chat and IM to support Torduckin. Down | 2014-07-29
• Torduckin0 #2nd – Citadel BBS with chat and IM to support Torduckin. Down | 2014-07-29
• Torduckin0 #3rd – Citadel BBS with chat and IM to support Torduckin. Down | 2014-07-29
• Torduckin0 #4th – Citadel BBS with chat and IM to support Torduckin. Down | 2014-07-29
• Anonymous BBS, gopher interface, telnet interface – Another variation of the talks style of board.
• HackBB – Forums for hacking, carding, cracking, programming, anti-forensics, and other tech topics. Also a marketplace with escrow.
• DOXBIN – DOX go here. A pastebin for personally identifiable information. All information is allowed.
• Hack The Planet – Archive of Hack The Planet’s past work.
• Exposed: The Secret Files – Tor mirror of exposed.su/exposed.re.
• Thunder’s Place – Thunder’s Place Penis Enlargement and Male Sexual Health Forum.
• Deep Web Radio – Up for several months now. Quite a variety of music 24/7.
• Hell Online – The anti-social network lel. Down | 2014-07-29
• Dark Nexus – Deep chat Down | 2014-07-29
• Galaxy Social Network – Very active Deep chat Down | 2014-07-29
• TriPh0rce’s Parlor This TriPh0rce’s personal page (former admin of TriChan). Several interesting links up. Down | 2014-07-29
• nekrotown Nekro’s personal page (former admin of TorChan) with links.
• The Secret Story Archive — (TORified Version 2.0. of yiff/clop/etc user-contrib short stories)

Email / Messaging

See also: The compendium of clearnet Email providers.

• Torbook Torbook – The Tor Social Network, get in Contact with others
• MailTor – Free @mailtor.net account (webmail, smtp, pop3 and imap access).
• Mail2Tor – New Tor Mail Server to clear web.
• URSSMail – Anonymous free email service, current substitute for TorMail. (Hosted on 3 servers around globe.) Down | 2014-06-20
• TorBox – TOR only secure and private email service.
• AnonMail – Anonymous premium email service like lavabit. (Not free).
• Onion Mail – SMTP/IMAP/POP3. ***@onionmail.in address. Registration is paid from 17\02.[10$].
• SIGAINT – Free @sigaint.org email accounts, Squirrelmail web mail. It does not require javascript.

Political Advocacy

• Assassination Market – Anonymous, safe, secure, crowdfunded assassinations.
• CODE:GREEN – Ethical hacktivism for a better world
• BuggedPlanet.Info – Information on Telecommunication Interception Companies & Installations
• paraZite #1st, clearnet 301 redirector – Illicit activities advocacy and censored information archive.
• paraZite #2nd, clearnet 301 redirector – Illicit activities advocacy and censored information archive.
• FREEFOR – USA-based FREEdom FORces developing a turnkey distributed Temporary Autonomous Zone. FAQ
• Fund the Islamic Struggle Anonymously – Fund the Islamic Struggle Anonymous via Bitcoin.

Whistleblowing

WikiLeaks

• Wikileaks New link

Other

• Indymedia Keyserver Secure PGP Keyserver in Onionland
• Zyprexa Kills, mirror – The Zyprexa Memos. Internal documents that Eli Lilly tried to expose.
• Cat out of the Bag [Tor | Internet] – Neven Lovrics’ disclosure.
• Mysterious – … can you visit?
• Illuminati – New World Order
• Strategic Intelligence Network – The Strategic Intelligence Network goal is to provide intelligences, ressources and tools to be prepared and to respond to crisis situations anywhere you are in the world.
• The Anarchism Library Mirror – Mirror content from September 2012.

H/P/A/W/V/C

Hack, Phreak, Anarchy (internet), Warez, Virus, Crack.

• Anonymous Services, For all of your blackhat needs.
• Creative Hack – Not open, in German, wrong section. Everyone has duty to share yet you lock up forum tighter than nuns virginity? Are you fucking stupid? lol Down | 2014-06-20
• HackBB – Forums for hacking, carding, cracking, programming, anti-forensics, and other tech topics. Includes a marketplace with escrow. Down | 2014-06-20
• TCF – Tor Carding Forums + Market.
• Requiem – Software for removing iTunes DRM Down | 2014-06-20
• keys open doors – Mirror of geohot’s PS3 hacking tools (censored on the clearnet by a Sony lawsuit) Down | 2014-06-20
• CardersPlanet – First carding service from russian community. Credit cards, bank accounts, DDoS service. Down | 2014-06-20

Audio – Music / Streams

• Deepweb Radio — RadioService operating over TOR
• lol 20th Century Western Music Recordings and Scores – high quality music notations and lossless recording that people can get. these are distributed on oneswarm -
• Lossless Audio Files – Mostly WavPack, some FLAC, Ape, ogg, etc. Has index generating links. Down | 2014-07-29

Video – Movies / TV

Books

• The Tor Library – 47 GB. pdf, chm, djvu. Design by Russebertene
• Example rendezvous points page – Thomas Paine’s Common Sense and The Federalist papers
• Traum library mirror – 60GB of Russian and English books. A mirror of the latest Traum ISO. Covers, search and downloads in FB2, HTML and plain TXT
• ParaZite – Collection of forbidden files and howto’s (pdf, txt, etc.).
• Imperial Library of Trantor – A library that offers over 50,000 free ebooks.
• Jotunbane’s Reading Club “All your ebooks are belong to us!”

Erotica

Noncommercial (E)

• Pink Meth – Tor mirror of pinkmeth.com.
• (Y)APE – Down – Yet Another Porn Exchange.
• Darkscandals Site with Real Rape, Blackmail and Forced videos! (Pack 3 is out now – August)
• Fly On The Wall – Real Hacked Pics, Videos & Webcam Recordings from Girl’s Computers

Commercial (E)

• bittit NSFW, clearnet – Buy or sell original NSFW pictures for Bitcoins.
• Lisa Hidden Cam – Watch 18 year old, Lisa on a hidden cam.
• The Voyeur Underground – Voyeur photos as well as wife/gf pics.
• Meet my Sisters – Two gorgeous girls at your service

Under Age

• Hard Candy
• Jailbait

Animal Related

• The Secret Story Archive #1st – Big cat zoophile stories, artwork, links and forum.
• The Secret Story Archive #2nd – Mirror of #1st.

Other

• TelAvivService – Professional anonymous global goods partners.
• VOR-COM Archive – Archive of the VOR-COM. Contains vore!

Uncategorized

Services that defy categorization, or that have not yet been sorted.

• noreason – Info and pdf files on weapons, locks, survival, poisons, protesters, how to kill. Hidden Wiki, TorDir, Steal this wiki, Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau mirrors. Guro, dofantasy / Fansadox Collection.

Non-English

Belarussian / Белорусский

• Bazarix – Белорусский скрытый свободный рынок BAZARiX Down | 2014-07-30

Finnish / Suomi

• Thorlauta – Thorlauta
• Sipulikanava – Sipulikanava
• Silkkitie – Silkkitie

French / Français

• L’Abysse – Les portes de l’Abysse sont prêtes à s’ouvrir. L’Abysse sur le clearweb
• French Deep Web – an administered and moderate French board Down | 2014-07-30
• Liberty’s Hackers – No CP, No racism – because Knowledge has value only if it is shared by all – hosting in progress.. Down | 2014-07-30
• Liberty’s Hackers Board – Liberty’s Hackers Board Down | 2014-07-30
• Le Tesseract – Centre de formation ésotérique. (Lien réparé)
• FDP – Forum Débats/Ventes. Down | 2014-07-30
• The Pirate Market – Marketplace on French language. – DOWN 2014-09-26

German / Deutsch

• Lion Pharma — Support forums for Steroids and the Lion Pharma store! — Deutsches Forum zum Thema Steroide und Bodybuilding!
• Deutschland im Deep Web – German darknet community with forum and chat
• Das ist DEUTSCHLAND hier! 2.0 Das ist DEUTSCHLAND hier! Nachfolger.
• konkret – Eine monatlich erscheinende Zeitschrift für Politik und Kultur (vertritt weit links angesiedelte Positionen). Archiv
• The Pirate Market – Marketplace on German language. – DOWN 2014-09-26

Greek / ελληνικά

Italian / Italiano

• Babylon – Babylon, forum per la comunità italiana
• Cipolla – Comunita’ italiana
• Italian Darknet Community – Italian Darknet Community

Japanese / 日本語

• OnionChannel – Onion Channel, a system similar to 2channel.

Korean / 한국어

• Korean Hidden Wiki – 한국어 히든 위키 페이지
• 지스코피디아 – 한국어 등을 지원하는 다국어 위키백과입니다. Jiskopedia is a multilingual wikipedia.
• 하이 코리아 – 커뮤니티 사이트이며 비트코인으로 마약 거래도 할 수 있습니다. HiGH KOREA is a Korean SNS and drug trading site.

Polish / Polski

• Teczkohen – imageboard
• Polska Ukryta Wiki – polski odpowiednik THW, linki do stron w sieci TOR, oraz artykuły i poradniki.
• Zdzich Forum Sukcesor i następca ToRepublic. Znajdziecie tutaj poradniki odnośnie konstruowania bomb, zabójstw bez zostawiania dowodów, produkcji i dystrybucji narkotyków i broni chemicznej, kupicie broń, narkotyki, konta na słupa, kradzione i haczone konta Allegro i bazy polskich serwisów (w tym bazy danych Netii, Google i UPC).

Portuguese / Português

• DarkTuga – Fórum português.

Russian / Русский

• Runion – Runion
• MALINA – RU Торговая площадка и форум.
• Зеркало библиотеки Траума – 60GB русских и английских книг. Обложки, поиск и возможность скачивать в форматах FB2, HTML и TXT
• Флибуста – Библиотека.
• RUForum – Русскоязычный форум по продаже оружия, наркотиков, средств безопасности, а также решения политических проблем. И того, что не найти в обычных интернетах. С недавнего времени регистрация платная – 10$.
• Amberoad – Торговая площадка в виде форума.
• R2D2 – Форум.
• Храбрый Зайчик – Анонимный электронный кошелёк для системы денежных переводов bitcoin. Перемешивает BTC разных пользователей, что делает невозможным отслеживание денежных переводов. Низкая комиссия! Есть генератор ключей для мультиподписи. Работает без JavaScript. Русский, английский и испанский языки интерфейса. Есть партнёрская программа (вы получите 40% комиссии привлечённых вами пользователей). tinyurl.com/BraveBunny
• Веб Хостинг в сети TOR – Apache, PHP5, MySQL, SFTP Access, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.onion Domain, Bitcoin server
• Russian Road – Торговая площадка для русскоязычных пользователей

Spanish / Español

• Agora – Mejor mercado para la compra y la venta de drogas y armas.
• CebollaChan – CebollaChan, el tor-chan en Castellano.
• FreeFire – Nuevo board sin censura, sin reglas, sin ban. – DOWN 2014-08-06
• BraveConejito – EWallet.

Swedish / Svenska

• KognitionsKyrkan, clearnet – Spiritual stuff.
• Moral.Nu, clearnet – Vad r moral?

Turkish

• Turkish Deep Web – Turkish forum.

Hidden Services – Other Protocols

Volunteers last verified that all services in this section were up, or marked as DOWN, on: 2011-06-08
For configuration and service/uptime testing, all services in this section MUST list the active port in their address. Exception: HTTP on 80, HTTPS on 443.
For help with configuration, see the TorifyHOWTO and End-to-end connectivity issues.

P2P FileSharing

Running P2P protocols within Tor requires OnionCat. Therefore, see the OnionCat section for those P2P services.
IMPORTANT: It is possible to use Tor for P2P. However, if you do, the right thing must also be done by giving back the bandwidth used. Otherwise, if this is not done, Tor will be crushed taking everyone along with it.

• Sea Kitten Palace – Torrent site and tracker for extreme content (real gore, animal torture, shockumentaries/mondo cinema, and Disney movies)
• The Pirate Bay – The Pirate Bay.

Chat centric services

Some people and their usual server hangouts may be found in the Contact Directory.

IRC

Below is a list of DEAD irc servers from Anonet: AnoNet – Each server is on its own network and connects to a chat cloud irc1.srn.ano, clearnet elef7kcrczguvamt.onion:15783 – Direct access to the AnoNet chat cloud. Use an IRC server to connect. irc3.srn.ano irc2.srn.ano, clearnet – Still connects to the old AnoNet chat cloud; that will soon change. irc4.srn.ano irc.cananon.ano Web Chat Version join #Anonet

• OFTC IRC – OFTC – IRC server

running on: (various).oftc.net, ports:: plaintext: 6667 ssl: 6697

• Federation: OnionNet – IRC network comprised of:
  • Circle IRC – Circle IRC server.
  • FTW IRC – FTW IRC server.
  • Nissehult IRC – Nissehult IRC server.
  • Renko IRC – Renko IRC Server.
• OpenSource, info – Drug chat
• Dark Tunnel Irc2p gateway – Gateway to the Irc2p IRC network on I2P.

running on: unknown, ports:: plaintext: 6668, ssl: none

• Chi’s Tunnel to Irc2p – New Gateway to the Irc2p IRC network (old one was down)
• WANNABE: Federation OnionNet :
• New Ngircd – Yep this is a new ircd in OnionLands looking for peering in OnionNet
• freenode IRC – freenode IRC server

running on: (various).freenode.net, ports:: plaintext: 6667 ssl: 6697/7070

• NeoturbineNET IRC – NeoturbineNET IRC server

running on: kropotkin.computersforpeace.net, ports:: plaintext: none ssl: 6697

• FREEFOR – FREEdom FORces – see “Political Advocacy”

running on: unknown, ports:: plaintext: 6667 ssl: 9999

• hackint – hackint is a communication network for the hacker community.

running on: lechuck.darmstadt.ccc.de, ports:: plaintext: none ssl: 6697

• Agora Anonymous – Agorist IRC server
• HeavyCrypto – HeavyCrypto IRC

running on: unknown, ports:: ssl: 6697

• Anonimowy IRC – Anonimowy IRC (Polish anonymous IRC server)

running on: unknown, ports:: plaintext: 6667, ssl: 6697

• prooops.eu IRC – prooops.eu IRC (Clearnet http://irc.prooops.eu/)

running on: unknown, ports:: plaintext: 6667, ssl: 6697

• Team Mondial IRC – Port: 6667 SSL: 6697 == New onion anonymous webmail service (URSSMail) / Escrow Expertz
• KeratNet – Kerat – Ports 6667, ssl:6697

SILC

• fxb4654tpptq255w.onion:706 – SILCroad, public server. [discuss/support]
• kissonmbczqxgebw.onion:10000 – KISS.onion – Keep It Simple and Safe – ditch the web browser, use SILC to communicate securely (using Pidgin with OTR)

XMPP (formerly Jabber)

• xmpp:tortureregex47xf.onion:5222 – Public XMPP with MUC (multi user chat) enabled. No Child Porn and racism here, any breach will result in a ban. Maintained by Creative Hack
• xmpp:okj7xc6j2szr2y75.onion:5222 – xmpp:jabber.ccc.de:5222 as a hidden service
• xmpp:3vnjj7h6c6vw2yh5.onion:5222 – instant messager for Liberty’s Hackers – chat room for Liberty’s Hackers and french users – chat room for international sharing – No CP and no Racism please.
• xmpp:cyjabr4pfzupo7pg.onion:5222 – CYRUSERV Community Jabber, a public server ran by CYRUSERV.

TorChat Addresses

Humans are listed in the above contact directory. Bots are listed below.

• 7oj5u53estwg2pvu.onion:11009 – TorChat InfoServ #2nd, by ACS.
• gfxvz7ff3bzrtmu4.onion:11009 – TorChat InfoServ #1st, by ACS.

SFTP – SSH File Transfer Protocol

These SFTP clients work with Tor: WinScp, FileZilla. Set proxy to SOCKS5, host 127.0.0.1, port 9150 (Windows,Mac) or 9050 (Linux). Encrypt your sensitive files using GnuPG before uploading them to any server.

• kissonmbczqxgebw.onion:10001 – KISS.onion – SFTP file exchange service (username “sftp.anon”, password “anon”)

About Deep Web

Deep Web (also called the Deepnet,Invisible Web, or Hidden Web) is the portion of World Wide Web content that is not indexed by standard search engines.
Mike Bergman, founder of BrightPlanet and credited with coining the phrase, said that searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean: a great deal may be caught in the net, but there is a wealth of information that is deep and therefore missed. Most of the Web's information is buried far down on sites, and standard search engines do not find it. Traditional search engines cannot see or retrieve content in the deep Web. The portion of the Web that is indexed by standard search engines is known as the Surface Web. As of 2001, the deep Web was several orders of magnitude larger than the surface Web.
The deep web should not be confused with the dark Internet, computers that can no longer be reached via the Internet. The Darknet distributed file sharing network, can be classified as part of the Deep Web.
Although much of the Deep Web is innocuous, some prosecutors and government agencies, among others, are concerned that the Deep Web is a haven for serious criminality.

Size

Bright Planet, a web-services company, describes the size of the Deep Web in this way:

It is impossible to measure or put estimates onto the size of the deep web because the majority of the information is hidden or locked inside databases. Early estimates suggested that the deep web is 400 to 550 times larger than the surface web. However, since more information and sites are always being added, it can be assumed that the deep web is growing exponentially at a rate that cannot be quantified. Estimates based on extrapolations from a study done at University of California, Berkeley in 2001 speculate that the deep web consists of about 7.5 petabytes. More accurate estimates are available for the number of resources in the deep Web: research of He et al. detected around 300,000 deep web sites in the entire Web in 2004, and, according to Shestakov, around 14,000 deep web sites existed in the Russian part of the Web in 2006.

Naming

Bergman, in a seminal paper on the deep Web published in The Journal of Electronic Publishing, mentioned that Jill Ellsworth used the term invisible Web in 1994 to refer to websites that were not registered with any search engine. Bergman cited a January 1996 article by Frank Garcia:

It would be a site that's possibly reasonably designed, but they didn't bother to register it with any of the search engines. So, no one can find them! You're hidden. I call that the invisible Web.

Another early use of the term Invisible Web was by Bruce Mount and Matthew B. Koll of Personal Library Software, in a description of the @1 deep Web tool found in a December 1996 press release.
The first use of the specific term Deep Web, now generally accepted, occurred in the aforementioned 2001 Bergman study.

Methods

Methods which prevent web pages from being indexed by traditional search engines may be categorized as one or more of the following:

• Dynamic content: dynamic pages which are returned in response to a submitted query or accessed only through a form, especially if open-domain input elements (such as text fields) are used; such fields are hard to navigate without domain knowledge.
• Unlinked content: pages which are not linked to by other pages, which may prevent Web crawling programs from accessing the content. This content is referred to as pages without backlinks (also known as inlinks). Also, search engines do not always detect all backlinks from searched web pages.
• Private Web: sites that require registration and login (password-protected resources).
• Contextual Web: pages with content varying for different access contexts (e.g., ranges of client IP addresses or previous navigation sequence).
• Limited access content: sites that limit access to their pages in a technical way (e.g., using the Robots Exclusion Standard or CAPTCHAs, or no-store directive which prohibit search engines from browsing them and creating cached copies.)
• Scripted content: pages that are only accessible through links produced by JavaScript as well as content dynamically downloaded from Web servers via Flash or Ajax solutions.
• Non-HTML/text content: textual content encoded in multimedia (image or video) files or specific file formats not handled by search engines.
• Software: Certain content is intentionally hidden from the regular internet, accessible only with special software, such as Tor. Tor allows users to access websites using the .onion host suffix anonymously, hiding their IP address. Other such software includes I2P and darknet software.

Indexing the Deep Web

While it is not always possible to directly discover a specific web server's content so that it may be indexed, a site potentially can be accessed indirectly (due to computer vulnerabilities).
To discover content on the Web, search engines use web crawlers that follow hyperlinks through known protocol virtual port numbers. This technique is ideal for discovering content on the surface Web but is often ineffective at finding Deep Web content. For example, these crawlers do not attempt to find dynamic pages that are the result of database queries due to the indeterminate number of queries that are possible. It has been noted that this can be (partially) overcome by providing links to query results, but this could unintentionally inflate the popularity for a member of the deep Web.
DeepPeep, Intute, Deep Web Technologies, Scirus, and Ahmia.fi are a few search engines that have accessed the Deep Web. Intute ran out of funding and is now a temporary static archive as of July, 2011. Scirus retired near the end of January, 2013.
Researchers have been exploring how the Deep Web can be crawled in an automatic fashion, including content that can be accessed only by special software such as Tor. In 2001, Sriram Raghavan and Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford Computer Science Department, Stanford University) presented an architectural model for a hidden-Web crawler that used key terms provided by users or collected from the query interfaces to query a Web form and crawl the Deep Web content. Alexandros Ntoulas, Petros Zerfos, and Junghoo Cho of UCLA created a hidden-Web crawler that automatically generated meaningful queries to issue against search forms. Several form query languages (e.g., DEQUEL) have been proposed that, besides issuing a query, also allow extraction of structured data from result pages. Another effort is DeepPeep, a project of the University of Utah sponsored by the National Science Foundation, which gathered hidden-Web sources (Web forms) in different domains based on novel focused crawler techniques.
Commercial search engines have begun exploring alternative methods to crawl the deep Web. The Sitemap Protocol (first developed, and introduced by Google in 2005) and mod oai are mechanisms that allow search engines and other interested parties to discover deep Web resources on particular Web servers. Both mechanisms allow Web servers to advertise the URLs that are accessible on them, thereby allowing automatic discovery of resources that are not directly linked to the surface Web. Google's deep Web surfacing system pre-computes submissions for each HTML form and adds the resulting HTML pages into the Google search engine index. The surfaced results account for a thousand queries per second to deep Web content. In this system, the pre-computation of submissions is done using three algorithms:

1. selecting input values for text search inputs that accept keywords,
2. identifying inputs which accept only values of a specific type (e.g., date), and
3. selecting a small number of input combinations that generate URLs suitable for inclusion into the Web search index.

In 2008, to facilitate users of Tor hidden services in their access and search of a hidden .onion suffix, Aaron Swartz designed Tor2web—a proxy application able to provide access by means of common web browsers. Using this application, Deep Web links appear as a random string of letters followed by the .onion TLD. For example, http://xmh57jrzrnw6insl followed by .onion, links to TORCH, the Tor search engine web page.

Classifying resources

Most of the work of classifying search results has been in categorizing the surface Web by topic. For classification of deep Web resources, Ipeirotis et al. presented an algorithm that classifies a deep Web site into the category that generates the largest number of hits for some carefully selected, topically-focused queries. Deep Web directories under development include OAIster at the University of Michigan, Intute at the University of Manchester, Infomine at the University of California at Riverside, and DirectSearch (by Gary Price). This classification poses a challenge while searching the deep Web whereby two levels of categorization are required. The first level is to categorize sites into vertical topics (e.g., health, travel, automobiles) and sub-topics according to the nature of the content underlying their databases.
The more difficult challenge is to categorize and map the information extracted from multiple deep Web sources according to end-user needs. Deep Web search reports cannot display URLs like traditional search reports. End users expect their search tools to not only find what they are looking for, but to be intuitive and user-friendly. In order to be meaningful, the search reports have to offer some depth to the nature of content that underlie the sources or else the end-user will be lost in the sea of URLs that do not indicate what content lies beneath them. The format in which search results are to be presented varies widely by the particular topic of the search and the type of content being exposed. The challenge is to find and map similar data elements from multiple disparate sources so that search results may be exposed in a unified format on the search report irrespective of their source.

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Deep Web Marketplaces

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been frequenting the deep web marketplaces most famously used for buying drugs online with Bitcoin.
I wanted to see if there was anything we could learn about how these illicit marketplaces work that could be applied to improve the legal marketplaces we invest in at USV.
As part of my research, I purchased an item on Evolution (no, not drugs – a pair of furry boots) in an effort to understand the dynamics of these marketplaces, from trust and safety to flow of funds. This is what I learned in the process.
Privacy

• Deep web marketplaces can only be accessed using Tor, a decentralized computer network that anonymizes traffic such that it’s harder to trace an individual user through their IP address. If you’d like to learn more about Tor and how it works, this is a good introduction.
  

• Most if not all marketplaces force you to sign up before browsing the listings. The sign up process involves picking a username and password, and an account PIN number. You’re also expected to remember a mnemonic private key for your account, which is not stored on the marketplace’s servers.
  

• Most sellers (particularly drug dealers) require all communications to be encrypted with PGP. Most marketplaces have a PGP key field at the profile setup level.
  

• Some marketplaces automatically delete all order information from their servers 30 days after an order has been “finalized” by the user.
  

• No e-mails are used, only Bitmessage (decentralized) or the marketplace’s messaging system (encrypted and periodically deleted).
  

Products

• Lots of drugs. The drugs category is 10x larger than all others. You’ll find anything from Valium to cocaine and LSD.
  

• You’ll also find digital content, stolen credit card and user/password lists, hacking services (mostly DDoS), counterfeit goods (fashion, jewelry, etc.), lab equipment, electronics (I was tempted to buy a pocket-sized EMP pulse generator), high-end spy gear, forged documents (driver’s licenses, passports), counterfeit currency, weapons and more.
  

Brand and Reputation

• Brand and reputation means everything to sellers. Buyers guide themselves via eBay-style reviews of the sellers.
  
• This is particularly important in an environment where there is no real identity shared between any of the participants. By contrast, I may not know who an eBay seller is but I take comfort in knowing that eBay does.
  

• Most sellers have 95%+ positive ratings. Some sellers have been involved in over 10,000 transactions.
  

• Many sellers have a presence across multiple deep web marketplaces, and oftentimes point to their profiles on different platforms as a way to further establish credibility.
  

• The community moderates sellers beyond the eBay-style reviews. A lot of marketplaces have separate community forums where users review sellers and products.
  

• A quick way for new sellers to establish credibility is to get reviewed by these community members.
  

• These forums often have established members, to whom sellers frequently send review samples.
  

• Sellers oftentimes link to these reviews as social proof, which are often rich in detail about the quality of the product (with pictures!), the seller, the packaging (good/bad stealth), speed, etc.
  

Flow of funds

• You are given a bitcoin public key on to which you must deposit funds before making a purchase.
  

• You’d buy bitcoin at an exchange, and use a mixing/tumbling service to anonymize them for a small fee. The need for these services in illegal transactions is interesting, since Bitcoin is frequently antagonized for its anonymity.
  

• You are expected to trust the marketplace with holding your funds. Some users keep a balance on their account, while others only make a deposit when they intend to make a purchase.
  

• Funds show up in your account once the transaction has been confirmed in the blockchain multiple times.
  

• Once funds are in your account, checkout is familiar and straightforward.
  

Escrow

• Escrow is provided by the marketplace operator and it is paramount to their business model.
  

• Sometimes you’ll find two service tiers: standard escrow (admins are the judges) or multisig escrow.
  

• To finance this service (and make a profit), marketplaces charge a small fee.
  

• Some sellers are very well established and have stellar reputations. This affords them the privilege of skipping escrow.
  

• Oftentimes, sellers will give you a discount (up to 20%) if you skip escrow or finalize early for the benefit of getting paid upfront.
  

• You have some number of days (15-30) to finalize the order (at which point the funds are transferred to the seller) or dispute it, at which point the staff gets involved.
  

Shipping

• This was not really relevant for my purposes, so I’m not entirely sure how shipping works for drugs. But I did some reading and wanted to share the most creative (emphasis on creative) method for anonymously receiving a package:
  

• One user put down the address of his local post office as a shipping address instead of his home. As a recipient, instead of his name he submitted “Holder of Federal Reserve Note number #NNNNN”, #NNNNN being the serial number of a dollar bill in his possession. Apparently he went to the post office holding the bill, correctly identifying himself as the holder of that federal reserve note, and was given the package (which I can only assume contained drugs).
  

Network effects

• There are no data network effects in the platform. In fact, deep web marketplace operators want to hold on to as little data as possible, as the opposite increases their exposure to prosecution.
  

• The network effects are in the seller’s reputation across many different forums, marketplaces, and websites (including “clear” web services like Reddit).
  

• Brand and product drive defensibility. Because the popular sellers are present in all major marketplaces, users mostly make decisions based on product. When new users ask for recommendations, they are oftentimes sent to a particular marketplace because of its ease of use.
  

Lessons learned

• A seller’s brand and reputation are extremely important in a system where the intermediary (the marketplace) does not guarantee trust and safety.
  

• This is largely decentralized in deep web marketplaces, as vendors make sure their brand is spread across multiple websites and forums.
  

• Marketplaces come and go (or get seized by the FBI) but sellers need maintain their reputation.
  

• Marketplaces can extract value where they incur costs. Because Bitcoin transactions are a commodity, high take rates and complex fee structures are unsustainable business models. This leads marketplaces to become very thin layers between supply and demand, which commands much smaller transaction fees – as low as 2% – to finance the small set of crucial services (enforcing contracts).
  

• The network regulates itself with relatively little involvement from its administrator (if networks are like governments, this is similar to a very small libertarian one).
  

• Peer to peer commerce, with no intermediary, can work: it depends on the reputation of the supplier and the size of the discount.
  

There’s a lot to learn from these platforms as we continue to think about how the Blockchain and other new technologies might impact traditional business models. For example, marketplaces with cost structures that command high take rates are vulnerable to Bitcoin-driven business models with very low or non-existent transaction fees. It could be that what drives adoption of unbundled services is competition by lowering costs.
I’m also wondering how applications could build network effects while defaulting to decentralized open data through the Blockchain Application Stack. While deep web marketplaces don’t fit this model, periodically purging the database has similar implications to giving up control of your user’s information by using decentralized data stores. Perhaps the answer is to have the best product and user experience.
This brings about a very interesting set of questions for both entrepreneurs and investors.
How do you monetize a decentralized network? Is it SAAS on top of the network?
How can you build build network effects while relinquishing control of the data? Do you compete on product and user experience? Is that defensible?
We have some ideas, but no definitive answers.

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