Dark Web is a public network in which its users pay particular attention to protection and anonymity. Because of this, most simple daily users have never accessed it, and in the worst case they do not even know its existence.
In recent research which was 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 number that is less than previous millionpriceand almost insignificant compared to the billions of web pages on the ordinary Internet.
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 the second being data leakage, third the financial fraud, and fourth the media. 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.
