WHAT IS DARKNET? Search engines like GOOGLE and BING generally returns millions of pages even for the simplest of keywords typed. This part of internet is the visible part. But there exists, within the countless websites, an Internet that is beyond the scope of normal search engines and general browsing, this is called Darknet, Deepnet, Invisible Web or Hidden Internet. The websites on Darknet are anonymous i.e you cannot tell who is the owner of the website when visiting them. Websites on the Darknet are accessed through the TOR(The Onion Router) Network. The basic concept behind TOR Network is to include so many nodes that it is virtually impossible to trace where the data is going or where is it coming from. Darknet webpages have the domain name .onion which is different from normal domain names which is the reason that these webpages cannot be accessed through normal web browsers. These domain names are created by Onion when you host your anonymous websites using the
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