The Dark Web is a public network to which users give special attention gravity to protection and anonymity. Because of this, most ordinary everyday users have never accessed it, and at worst don't even know it exists.
In a recent survey conducted by Intelliagg and Darksum, the two companies built a map with their Tor-based websites Dark Web.
Using automated scripts, the two companies scanned, scanned and crawled an index with all the Tor websites they found in front of them. The result revealed that there are only 29.532 .onion websites, a figure that is smaller than previous estimates and almost insignificant compared to the billions of simple Internet sites.
Researchers observed that many online Tor sites that were online then disappeared forever, and so their appreciation for 30.000 websites may be actually smaller, as many of these websites are bound to not return again.
According to survey numbers, 54% of these 30K .onion sites disappeared during this survey. The possible explanation is that the temporary domains were temporarily set up for the needs of the Dark Web criminal organizations.
As far as the language is concerned, most of the Tor sites were written in English (76%), with the second German (4%) and third (3,7%).
Categorizing the websites, most are used for file sharing, with leaking second data, third the financial fraud, and fourth the media informations. But this categorization is not entirely sure to be representative of the actual contents of Dark Web sites.
Finally, the research finds that 68% of Dark Web content deals with illegal content and 32% is moving into legal frames.
