Indexed Tor directory
TorBible is an indexed Tor directory: a market catalog and maintained onion-link directory on one side; guides, glossary entries, and citable research on the other. It is editorially maintained, has no ads, and works without JavaScript. TorBible does not sell goods, hold escrow, or operate any listed service.
What the index holds
We do not publish a founding myth or an “edition IV” number. Counts below are generated from the same files the site builds. This is the October 2026 catalog.
Those 12 Active names are nine drug-market profiles, Torzon through Omega, plus three credit-cards listings, along with the 8 historical rows. 10 of 12 Active names have an Official onion on file; the rest keep an empty Official slot. Historical names have no onion row. We do not invent missing strings. On the market catalog, a shop onion appears only when it is already on file, with tags for 2FA, PGP, escrow, and coins.
The service directory holds 47 clearnet and onion entries across 7 categories: 16 in the service directory plus 7 in the forum directory (23 stored .onion strings in total — mail, press, and forums; not a scraped shop list).
Beside the catalog sit 27 security and privacy guides (Tor Browser setup, OPSEC, phishing, security levels, verified onion links, PGP, Tails, Tor on mobile, escrow language, and coin visibility), 11 Learn articles (Hidden Wiki, onion routing, bridges, legality of Tor, and related explainers), 10 research and history articles (takedown timeline, Tor history, Dream, Empire, White House Market, Silk Road), 65 terms (definitions, including mixer as a concept — not a how-to), and 3 tool profiles.
TorBible has no published onion mirror or PGP key, and the footer no longer promises one. We do not mint a fake address to look finished.
Catalog beside the explainers
Why the index exists
TorBible exists so people can read a staff-written index of Tor instead of a vandalized wiki. Search engines do not crawl most .onion services. Directories remain how readers find mail, press tips, and — separately — a market catalog. That is the Hidden Wiki pattern. We keep the pattern and drop the graffiti.
Catalog records
The market catalog, onion service directory, and forum directory are maintained records. We do not call the catalog an encyclopedia, and we do not scrape another directory’s shop-onion table into ours.
Explainer layer
The explainer layer contains Tor explainers, security and privacy guides, terms, tool profiles, and research. The two layers are first-class and are not the same thing.
Other directories
Other independent directories exist in the same niche. We may cite their clearnet pages as public sources. We do not import their mirrors, their editor bios, or their operational how-tos.
Shutdowns and network dates
The explainer layer sits on public, checkable facts — not on a private onion feed. Onion routing was described at the US Naval Research Lab in the 1990s; the Tor prototype was public in 2002; the Tor Project incorporated as a US 501(c)(3) in 2006. Network measurements are published at Tor Metrics. That history is in our Tor network history and What is Tor? pages. Those two clearnet sites are the notices for the network history above: the Tor Project site (Browser downloads and project history) and Tor Metrics (public network measurements).
A Hidden Wiki is a curated index of .onion sites. Conventional crawlers skip most hidden services, so directories remain how people find mail, search, and press tips. The original community wiki was editable by anyone and filled with phishing clones. Our explainer: What is the Hidden Wiki.
Public shutdowns are part of the same record. Silk Road was seized in 2013, AlphaBay in 2017, Hydra in 2022, Incognito in 2024. On 16 June 2025, Eurojust and Reuters reported an international action against Archetyp Market (infrastructure taken offline; administrator arrested in Spain). Our takedown timeline and the Archetyp profile cite those notices. The catalog card for Archetyp is now listed as Seized — a historical row, matching those press releases.
Abacus is listed as an exit scam after it went dark in July 2025 with no seizure banner of the Archetyp type. Incognito is listed as seized. The historical rows in this edition are Silk Road, AlphaBay, Dream, Empire, Hydra, Incognito, Archetyp, and Abacus.
When a card may show an onion
Every listing and explainer is supposed to survive the checks below. We run a weekly crawl of market mirrors.
Own files first
Markets, forums, and services come from our JSON, not from scraping another catalog. A market card prints an .onion only when that string is already in our catalog file. Service and forum onions in the directory are strings already stored.
A named clearnet notice
Takedowns, dates, and scale claims need a named clearnet notice (agency, wire service, or a directory we already cite). We label directory gossip as reported.
A missing address stays missing
We do not invent shop onions. A missing market address stays missing. Empty Official slots stay empty. Readers who use a third-party address should check a PGP canary and a second independent source.
No deal instructions
No buyer’s bible, no mixer rankings, no no-KYC “how to buy XMR,” no shop-mirror dumps.
Dated reviews
Encyclopedia articles carry publication and review dates. Corrections change the text; they do not silently backdate it.
Phishing stays a subject
Phishing is treated as a subject — see phishing detection — not as a reason to paste a competing wiki’s table.
Status tags are editorial
Status tags (Active, Exit scam, Seized) are editorial. They are not a warranty of uptime.
House rules for the desk
No tracker on the page
No tracking, no analytics cookies, no accounts, and the pages stay readable without JavaScript.
Listings stay on the desk
No user-submitted listings and no scraped competitor catalogs.
Nothing for sale in the margin
No commercial advertising and no affiliate deals on illegal offers.
An empty Official slot stays empty
If we have no market onion on file, the Official slot stays empty. We do not invent the string.
No market on the masthead
No affiliation with markets, vendors, or law enforcement.
Clearnet reporting on the record
Market profiles and research pages link clearnet reporting. Encyclopedia articles name primary material where we have it.
Staff byline and the limits
TorBible Editorial
Feature articles are signed TorBible Editorial — the same desk named on Learn, Guides, and Research. That is a staff byline, not a public editor-in-chief profile. The legal notice still has no publishable personal or company imprint; we do not invent a named journalist to fill the gap.
The desk’s working rules are short: accuracy over speed, verification over assumption, and encyclopedia over a deal walkthrough. Corrections go into the affected page with a review date. Details: editorial policy.
Not a shop
TorBible is not a marketplace, escrow, mixer, or wallet. We do not process transactions, host hidden services, or sell access. We are not a clone of another directory’s copy or onion list. We are not a law-enforcement notice board. Read the Hidden Wiki directory explainer, market escrow systems, or the market takedown timeline.
No public inbox
TorBible does not publish a public contact. There is no public social handle and no twitter:site tag — we do not invent one. Source rules and how we correct pages live in the editorial policy. A personal or company imprint is still unpublished; see Legal. Privacy notes: Privacy.