#০১-What is Darkweb

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#০১-The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on

darknets ; overlay networks which use the Internet but

require specific software, configurations or authorization to

access. [1][2] The dark web forms a small part of the deep

web, the part of the Web not indexed by search engines ,

although sometimes the term "deep web" is mistakenly

used to refer specifically to the dark web. [3][4][5][6][7]

The darknets which constitute the dark web include small,

friend-to-friend peer-to-peer networks, as well as large,

popular networks like Tor , Freenet , and I2P , operated by

public organizations and individuals. Users of the dark web

refer to the regular web as Clearnet due to its unencrypted

nature. [8] The Tor dark web may be referred to as

onionland , [9] a reference to the network's top level domain

suffix .onion and the traffic anonymization technique of

onion routing .For surfing in the dark web you required

special browser like TOR, the regular browser cannot index

out a result.

Terminology

The dark web has often been confused with the deep web,

which refer to the parts of the web not indexed (searchable)

by search engines. This confusion dates back to at least

2009. [10] Since then, especially in reporting on Silk Road,