dark.fail

what is dark.fail?

dark.fail is a curated directory of .onion addresses for well-known services - news outlets, crypto exchanges, privacy tools and more. what makes it useful is the discipline behind it: every listing ships with a pgp signature from the operator, so visitors can verify that the list they downloaded was published by dark.fail and not swapped somewhere along the way.

phishing via lookalike onion addresses is one of the biggest risks in the tor ecosystem - scammers register vanity onions that mimic famous services down to a single changed letter. directories like this exist precisely to fight that: instead of getting an address from a random forum post, you get it from a maintained list you can checksum and sign-check yourself.

many of the addresses tracked on this very site were originally verified through dark.fail. as always, treat any directory as one data point: compare against the provider's own clearnet announcement where one exists, and use our onion validator tool to confirm a v3 address is at least mathematically well-formed before you open it.

before you trust any of this

• .onion addresses are long on purpose. one wrong letter = someone else's server.
• if a service matters to you, cross-check its address against its own clearnet site or PGP-signed announcements.
• a green badge here means "reachable", never "trustworthy". we report reachability only.

free tools for exactly this