This is something I was meaning to do a little while back - enabling darknet accessibility via a Tor v3 onion vanity address. I’ve been tinkering with my SSL certificates on my servers to try and get them working the way I want too.
So now if you happen to be on a modern computer running the Tor Browser (based on Firefox) and visit the HTTPS version of geocities.mcretro.net, you will notice a little purple banner in the address bar.
.onion available
Once clicked you end up with the very easy to remember:
http://geocitiesllczuf44da2nj45jn3fntdjpw27ercfbhkrw3mnegti7pid.onion
This link will not resolve in a clearnet browser, you need to use one that has tor capabilities (or a tor proxy service).
As you can see it is travelling through quite a complicated looking circuit.
The jump page mostly works. I noticed that on it tends to take you to the clearnet site but does provide the purple “.onion available” button again. I’m sure I’ll work it out eventually as to why it is doing that. I must have a “geocities.mcretro.net” hardcoded somewhere instead of just a “/”. Actually it might be because it uses the sitemap.xml files for jump. Ahhh yes. I don’t think I’ll change that, at least it provides darknet search indexers a bit more content.
Grab the Tor Browser and have a tinker with the technology, it’s quite interesting to setup. Then stop by http://geocitiesllczuf44da2nj45jn3fntdjpw27ercfbhkrw3mnegti7pid.onion/