Darknet market records: onion addresses, mirrors and honest status

This is the Deep Web Wire index of every marketplace project we track. Each record holds the onion addresses the project publishes and whether our last check could reach them. Pick a market for the full set of copyable strings; the table below is the quick scan.

Seven projects sit on this index today, not because seven is a target number but because seven is how many candidate marketplaces have so far cleared the same reachability check applied to every entry on Deep Web Wire. A project does not appear here on the strength of name recognition or trading volume alone — a claimed address has to actually resolve, and resolve to something consistent with the project it claims to be, before it earns a row in the table below. That standard is why this list will always be shorter than a scraped aggregator's, and why a market's absence from this page is a gap in what we have verified rather than a judgment about the project itself.

Deep Web Wire treats this darknet market index as the hub of the whole site: every onion address record, every status update, and every guide on verifying a link before you use it eventually points back to one of the seven rows below. If you only bookmark one page on Deep Web Wire, make it this one.

What a record is, and what it is not

A Deep Web Wire record is a claim about addresses, not a recommendation of a business. We say which onion strings we currently tie to a project and whether we could reach them. We do not vouch for escrow, vendor honesty, or whether a market will still exist next month. Those are risks the reader carries; our narrow job is to make sure the address you copy is the one the project actually publishes.

Deep Web Wire tracks projects only when we can place their addresses against our own reference set. That is why the list is short. A market missing from this page is not condemned — it simply is not one we can currently verify, and printing an address we cannot place would defeat the point of the site.

How to read the quick-scan table above

The table at the top of this page is deliberately compressed — four columns, one row per project — so a reader who already knows what they are looking for can scan it in seconds. Reading it well takes a little more care than glancing at the status column, though.

Addresses on file is a count, not a quality signal

A market showing five entries in the Addresses on file column is not automatically better verified than one showing one. The count reflects how many mirrors a project has chosen to publish and how many of those we have been able to place against our reference set — a single, well-guarded link and five load-sharing mirrors both start from the same reachability check.

Status describes the last check, not this second

Checking and Unknown are both honesty labels, not live indicators. A row reading Checking was reachable as of the date on its full record page; a row reading Unknown means we lack a fresh measurement, which is different from — and less alarming than — a market actually being down. Neither word updates in real time as you look at the page.

Category will diversify as this index grows

Every project on this page is currently tagged Marketplace because marketplaces are what Deep Web Wire has built out first. As the site adds forum and service categories, this same table format will carry them, sorted the same honest way — by what we can verify, not by traffic or payment.

Why we link to a full record instead of putting every address here

It would be technically possible for Deep Web Wire to paste every mirror for all seven projects directly into this index page and skip the click-through. We deliberately do not, for a reason that matters more than convenience: a page trying to be both an index and a full address book for seven different projects becomes hard to scan and easy to mis-copy from. Splitting the two — a compact index here, a focused record per project — keeps the copy control next to the specific address it belongs to, rather than in a long undifferentiated list where a misread row is a real risk.

Address count versus security: a common misreading

The single most common misreading of this darknet market index is treating the "addresses on file" column as a security score. It is worth spelling out plainly why that reading is wrong, since it shapes how a reader should actually use every record below.

Where to go next from this index

This markets index is the hub of Deep Web Wire's reference set, and depending on what you actually need, a different page on the site may serve you faster than clicking through all seven records one at a time.

If you just need one working address right now

Go straight to the individual project's record — Torzon, Mars, We The North, Nexus, Vortex, Omega or DrugHub — rather than this index. Each record page carries the copy control, the full mirror set and the how-to-access notes this compact table intentionally leaves out.

If you want every project's primary address in one table

The working links table lays out all seven records in a single scrollable page, which is faster than this card grid if you already know what you are comparing and just want the raw strings side by side.

If verification itself is the question, not any specific market

Read verifying an address before you deposit or spotting a fake mirror before you go further. Those guides explain the reasoning behind the status words used across this whole index, which makes every record on this page easier to read correctly afterward.

If you want to know how confident to be in any of this

Start with how Deep Web Wire verifies links and the warrant canary. Together they explain the honesty standard every record on this index is held to, and the signed, dated proof that this reference has not been quietly compromised or coerced.

How an onion address actually resolves, for Deep Web Wire readers new to this

Every row on this index depends on a piece of infrastructure worth understanding rather than taking for granted: how a 56-character .onion string turns into an actual connection. Readers already comfortable with Tor can skip this section; it exists for the readers who are not.

Frequently asked questions

How many darknet markets do you track?

Seven at the moment: Torzon, Mars, We The North, Nexus, Vortex, Omega and DrugHub. We add a project only when we can tie its onion addresses to our own reference set.

Why do some markets have five addresses and others one?

That is the project's own choice. Some spread across several mirrors to survive load and takedowns; others run a single well-guarded onion. Neither pattern is proof of safety.

Is a market with 'unknown' status offline?

No. Unknown means our most recent reachability check is too old to report as fact. It is an honesty flag, not a down signal.

Why do the seven records above use different phrasing — "mirror record," "market profile," "reachability record"?

The underlying data is the same shape for every project: addresses, category and status. The wording varies simply because seven identical labels in a row read as filler; the record itself, not the label on the card, is what carries the actual information.

Can a market appear on this index without a working link right now?

Yes. A Checking or Unknown status describes what our last pass found, not a live feed. A market can sit in this index with a status that is temporarily stale between automated sweeps, which is why every record also shows the date it was last confirmed.