[tor-talk] large increase in .onion domains

[Scfith Rise up]

Here is the exact link: https://metrics.torproject.org/hidserv-dir-onions-seen.html 

it jumped from 40000 to 60000 in the past day or two. 

Since the metrics are based on the number of relays acting as hidden services with the assumption that at least 1% are reporting in, the numbers are correlated directly with the number of relays running as well. 

> On Feb 18, 2016, at 5:29 AM, Griffin Boyce <griffin at cryptolab.net> wrote:
> 
> People also set up lots of onionsites for testing and other reasons. At one
> point, Andrew Lewman (Tor's past ED) scripted something to create 5000 onion
> addresses to see how long it would take to generate. While working on Stormy, I
> generated a few hundred onionsites just during the testing process.
> 
> ~Griffin
> 
> 
> -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse typos and e̳͖̲̮n̞̟̭̬̯c̞̘̹̜̰̯͍o̬͍̫d̢i͉͈̗͖̳̫ng̢͉̹̤ ̥̻̥ͅer̝͎̰̞̩͉̟r̠̼̩̬̱̹͔o̟̳r̫̜͎̥̹̀s̖̦. On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 5:22 AM, Pickfire < pickfire at riseup.net [pickfire at riseup.net] > wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 05:11:58AM -0500, Scfith Rise up wrote:
>> I am just wondering why there has been a huge increase in .onion domains on
> http://metrics.torproject.org. Is this just an error or something else going on?
> 
> It might be true, I set up a .onion domain some time ago.
> 
> And it might be the other way round, people might be setting up fake
> sites.
> 
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