$DARKWEB
Live dark web sites
525,8835.6% upon the day before
onion services on Nov 10Down 18% from 641,309 on Oct 26 2021
Quiet. 525,883 onion services on Nov 10, up 5.6% on the day before.
From Oct 12 to Nov 10.
How it is counted
Normal498,679 to 634,018
Highest720,124Oct 16
Unusual days41
- Counts
- Onion services (version 3) seen on the Tor network each day, as the Tor Project estimates it from the share of the network that reports. A site is counted once whether it is a market, a forum or a mirror.
- Why it is here
- Nobody keeps a list of the dark web. The Tor network counts it anyway, and the count swings by a hundred thousand in a week.
- Cadence
- Daily, two or three days late. Newest complete day Nov 10. Read Nov 12, 22:40 UTC.
- Baseline
- The prior 30 days, 14 needed.
Quote this number
525,883 onion services were live on the Tor network on Nov 10 2026, according to Tor Project estimates kept by Tickerz.
Asked often
- How many dark web sites are there?
- 525,883 onion services were seen on the Tor network on Nov 10 2026, as the Tor Project estimates it from the share of the network that reports.
- Where does the $DARKWEB number come from?
- Tickerz reads it from Tor Project, Tor Metrics, unique .onion addresses (version 3 only). Daily, two or three days late. Each number is kept as it was first published, with a timestamped proof, and any later revision is shown beside it.
- Can I download the $DARKWEB data?
- Yes, free and with no key: the full history as JSON at https://tickerz.com/api/indices/darkweb and every period as CSV at https://tickerz.com/api/indices/darkweb/history.csv.
Resolution
- Index
- $DARKWEB Live dark web sites. Rulebook v0.2, 2026-10-04.
- Prints
- Daily, two or three days late. The newest complete day is on the record after the daily proof at 12:40 UTC.
- As first published
2026-11-10 is not timestamped yet. The daily proof at 12:40 UTC adds it.
The number as first published is final for settlement. A revision by the source is shown beside it and never replaces it.
- Fallback
- Tor posts a day when enough of the network has reported; until then the day stays open. A day it never posts is void.
- Precision
- Whole onion services, Tor's daily estimate as published.
- Cost to move
- Cheap for a few thousand. Standing up onion services costs little, and a botnet can add many.
- Grade
- display. An estimate the Tor Project scales up from the share of the network that reports, not a count. Shown, not settled on.
- For a rulebook
- Settle on the number Tickerz first recorded for $DARKWEB for the UTC day named in the contract, published at tickerz.com/x/darkweb and in GET /api/indices/darkweb, timestamped daily in Bitcoin with OpenTimestamps.
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<iframe src="https://tickerz.com/embed/darkweb" title="$DARKWEB on Tickerz" width="480" height="200" style="border:0;max-width:100%" loading="lazy" allow="clipboard-write"></iframe>Proof and data
- Proof
- Every reading is timestamped in Bitcoin once a day, so nobody can change it later. The newest proof covers Nov 12, in Bitcoin block 975,557.Proof fileLive feedHow it works
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