
To put in context, there are about 200 million surface Web domains. onion sites amount to less than 0.005 percent of surface web domains. Research from threat intelligence company Recorded Future found the number of live, accessible. The term is often conflated with the marketplaces on the Deep Web, which refers to parts of the Web not indexed by search engines, often because they are behind paywalls or some other type of login mechanism. However, the phrase Dark Web has been overused to refer to any underground marketplace or criminal forum. The Dark Web is shrouded in mystery, helped by the fact that it requires special tools-software and configurations-to access. The reality is a bit more prosaic: it isn’t all that large, after all.


Robot and movies have fueled the perception that the Dark Web is a massive network of criminal sites engaged in all manner of illegal activities.
