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About Onionland Review and how it stays independent
Onionland Review is a reporting project about darknet markets. We review them, compare them, and track when their onion addresses change. That is the whole remit. We do not run a market, host one, or move money for anyone, and we are not a directory or a live status board, though we link to both when a story needs them.
Where the money does not come from
There are no banner ads on this site. There are no affiliate links, so we earn nothing when a reader visits a market. No market can pay to be reviewed, to be reviewed sooner, or to be graded higher. When one of them earns a Caution or an Avoid, that is what we print, even for markets that would rather we did not. Independence is the only thing a review like this has to sell, and the moment it is for sale it is worthless.
How we handle onion addresses
Every darknet-market onion address that appears anywhere on Onionland Review — in a review, a comparison, a news item — is printed as full, copyable text, never abbreviated with an ellipsis or a shortened preview. This is not a stylistic choice. A truncated address cannot be compared character by character against a signed directory, which is the actual check that separates a genuine market address from a phishing clone, and Onionland Review will not publish anything that quietly makes that check harder to do.
What "confirmed" means on this site
Next to every address we print sits a date: the day we last confirmed the address was reachable over Tor. That date is not a live status feed and does not mean the address is working right now — it means it worked on that day, under our process. Between our checks, an address can go dark, rotate, or come back, and the date is the honest boundary of what we are actually claiming. We do not use words like "Online" precisely because that word implies a real-time guarantee our process does not provide.
Why we do not host our own mirror directory
Onionland Review is a reviewing and reporting project, not a directory service, and we deliberately keep those two jobs separate. A directory that also reviews the markets it lists has an incentive to keep its own listings looking healthy; a reviewer who also runs the definitive mirror list has an incentive to make its own list look more complete than it is. We link out to dedicated directory projects for the canonical address record and keep our own address mentions scoped to what a specific review or news item needs to make its point.
What to do if an address we printed stops working
Treat a stale address on this site as expected drift, not as evidence something is wrong with the market. Onion addresses for actively maintained darknet markets rotate for operational-security reasons that have nothing to do with the market's health. Re-check the market's own current mirror record before assuming a market referenced here has gone dark — and if you find one of our own printed addresses is stale, that is useful feedback, since a correction we have not yet made is exactly the kind of gap independence is supposed to surface, not hide.