
Well, there are a couple of places you consider to start: Finding the Onions onion which you can’t visit using your regular browser? You can’t just always search for them because the dark web is not really well indexed by search engines. Visiting the website using a Tor browser.īut how can you find the URL’s that end on.

For example you can still visit our own OSINTCurious blog, even though this URL doesn’t end with ‘.onion’. You can still visit the normal pages you can visit with your regular browser. Well, the Tor Browser isn’t so different from your regular internet browser. ĭo keep in mind that using the Tor Browser might won’t give you a fast connection, since Tor has to route your traffic through a number of nodes, which might not all have the fastest connection.

A good example of this is the the DuckDuckGo search engine’s Tor hidden service at. Many of these hidden services are similar to web sites on the surface web except that their host names end in “.onion”. If you see this page, your Tor Browser is ready for a URL to visit! You can visit URLs from the surface web (like ) or use Hidden Services in Tor. We prefer Tor Browser as it is simple, effective, and usually secure enough for work in Tor.īelow is an image of what the Tor Browser looks like once it has connected to Tor.

There are other ways to gain access to Tor like using Tails which is an operating system that you can run from a Virtual Machine or from a USB drive. To gain access to Tor, we suggest using the simple, Firefox-like Tor Browser which can be downloaded for free from. In this blog we’ll focus on the usage of Tor (The Onion Router, click here for the Wikipedia page for further explanation). So Some of you might only know this term from the ‘internet iceberg’ image as that black shady part of the iceberg with terms like ‘Tor’ and ‘I2P’.
