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.onion

special use top-level domain for Tor hidden services
Thing pseudo_top_level_domain Q848715

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
pseudo-top-level domain, top-level domain[2]
Inception
2004[4]
Official website
www.torproject.org[5]
Website
www.torproject.org
Described by source
RFC 7686: The ".onion" Special-Use Domain Name[6]
Named after
onion[3]
🏷️ Also known as
en .onion en .onion URL de .onion-Adresse de .onion-URL he onion.
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Freebase ID
/m/09s4x6
ICANNWiki page ID
.onion
MacPorts port
tor
Quora topic ID
onion

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
top-level domain, pseudo-top-level domain
Named after 1
onion
← Top-level Internet domain 1
Tor
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Summary

.onion is a pseudo-top-level domain[1].

Why It Matters

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References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . iana.org. iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). .onion. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/onion-q848715
MLA “.onion.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 5 Nov. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/onion-q848715.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_onion-q848715_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{.onion}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/onion-q848715}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-05}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): .onion — https://4ort.xyz/entity/onion-q848715 (retrieved 2026-11-05)

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