• World Wide Web content that exists on darknets, that is, overlay networks that use the Internet but require specific software, configurations, or authorization to access. Through the Dark Web, private computer networks can communicate and conduct business anonymously without divulging identifying information, such as a user’s location. The Dark Web forms a small part of the Deep Web, the part of the Web not indexed by web search engines. The darknets which constitute the Dark Web include small, friend-to-friend peer-to-peer networks, as well as large, popular networks such as Tor, Freenet, I2P, and Riffle operated by public organizations and individuals. Users of the Dark Web refer to the regular Web as “Clearnet,” due to its unencrypted nature. The Tor Dark Web or “Onionland” uses the traffic anonymization technique of onion routing under the network’s top-level domain suffix .onion. ← Wikipedia

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