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.onion

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.onion

Summary

.onion is a pseudo-top-level domain[1]. .onion draws 682 Wikipedia views per month (pseudo_top_level_domain category, ranking #1 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • .onion's instance of is recorded as pseudo-top-level domain[3].
  • .onion's instance of is recorded as top-level domain[4].
  • onion is named after .onion[5].
  • .onion's logo image is recorded as Tor-logo-2011-flat.svg[6].
  • +2004-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of .onion[7].
  • .onion's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09s4x6[8].
  • .onion's official website is recorded as https://www.torproject.org/[9].
  • .onion's described by source is recorded as RFC 7686: The ".onion" Special-Use Domain Name[10].
  • .onion's Quora topic ID is recorded as onion[11].
  • .onion's ICANNWiki page ID is recorded as .onion[12].
  • .onion's MacPorts port is recorded as tor[13].

Why It Matters

.onion draws 682 Wikipedia views per month (pseudo_top_level_domain category, ranking #1 of 6).[2] .onion has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] .onion is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iana.org. iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). .onion. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/onion-q848715
MLA “.onion.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 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: 2026-05-03}}
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 2026-05-03)

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