I'm getting around 6500 per day give or take a few and about 70-100 new per day (most of which are short lived or mirrors of others or new addresses for previous services).
------------------ FINGERPRINT: 97CD 1B42 2333 54EF 75C2 731C C71C BC5C 57D3 A771 On Aug 24, 2016, at 7:50 PM, Sarah Jamie Lewis <[email protected]> wrote: >> Recent talk in onionland seems to be indicating somewhere >> nearing 10,000 onions online, from spidering and whatnot. >> Are there folks here involved in such projects that can contribute > further graphs, lists, categorization, and commentary? > > I run the OnionScan project and have been looking at this stuff for the > last year or so[1]. From my latest data I see about ~7000 onions online > during any given crawl date - and these 7000 come from about ~8000 > different onion hostnames (some onions are really inconsistently up). When > I say online I mean is actively serving one of HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP, > Bitcoin, IRC and a few other protocols. > > Overall we scan ~12000 known onion hosts found by crawling both onion > sites and the clear web. This grew rapidly over the first few scans but > generally only grows by a handful of onions per scan now - this means > ~5000 of the onion hosts we have found have never been online or are > defunct. > > This analysis obviously doesn't capture onions that have never been > publicly listed or private authenticated onions. It also doesn't account > for onion-dependent software like Ricochet which may not be online > consistently enough for us to pick up. Finally if someone is hosting > software on a non-standard port we won't currently detect it. > > Lately I've been looking into supplementing the crawl data with other > sources e.g. clearnet listings (like /r/onions) or via general common > crawl data - although early tests show this is about as effective as the > current crawl mechanism for finding new onions. > > [1] https://mascherari.press/onionscan-report-june-2016/ > > > > > > -- > tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
