The two onion addresses published here
Two strings, reproduced exactly as supplied, printed at the top of every page on this site. This page explains what that does and does not amount to.
The addresses are at the top of this page, as they are at the top of every other page here. They are not repeated below, because printing the same string twice on one page invites the reader to compare the two copies and conclude something from the fact that they match, which would be a conclusion about this page rather than about anything else.
How they are presented
Both strings appear in the same typeface at the same size, in a fixed order that carries no meaning. Neither one is called primary, official, main, backup or recommended. There is no first and second, no numbering and no note explaining which to try. Every one of those would be a claim, and a claim needs something behind it that this site does not have.
The four things this does not mean
- It does not mean either address is reachable
- This site never opens them. It cannot report on something it has not done, and it will not simulate the result.
- It does not mean they lead to the same place
- That would require opening both and comparing what came back, which is the same activity as above.
- It does not mean they are safe
- Reaching a service says nothing about what the service does, and this site makes no claim about the operator of any address.
- It does not mean this list is complete
- Two strings were supplied and two are published. Whether others exist is not something this page has any way of knowing.
Why there is no status indicator
A coloured dot next to an address is a claim about the last few seconds, presented as a claim about now. Even when it is honestly produced it is stale by the time the page is read, and it teaches the reader to substitute a green light for their own judgement. So there is no dot here, no percentage, no response time, no history graph and no date of last contact. The absence is deliberate and it is permanent.
The consequence for you is that the shape check on the string shape card and the source question on the repeatable route card are the two checks actually available, and neither of them tells you what is on the other end. That is a smaller amount of certainty than a status page appears to offer, and it is the amount that genuinely exists.
What to do with a string once you hold it
Hold it as characters rather than as a click, which is the first condition in stage C. Keep it somewhere that outlives the browser, which is the storage condition and which reaches all the way forward to the last card on the map. And form a view about the difference between another address run by the same operator and an address that merely resembles one, which is what the mirror card is about.
Copying
The copy buttons put the string on your clipboard without opening anything and without contacting anything. Nothing on this site makes a network request of any kind: no fonts from elsewhere, no scripts from elsewhere, no images from elsewhere, no analytics and no tracking. The page you are reading is the whole transaction.