Anubis mirrors

Anubis Market: the live mirror list

Three onion mirrors on the current rotation, checked regularly. Copy them from the front page; the notes below explain what each one is for and how to switch when one stalls.

Anubis runs three onions in parallel. The first carries the bulk of buyer traffic and sits behind the market's primary challenge layer. The second soaks up spillover during busy windows. The third is the explicit failover, on lower-throughput relays with a little more latency budget built in. Knowing the role of each saves you guessing when one is slow.

The reason for three is simple: a flood aimed at one address leaves sessions on the other two alone, and the operator can stand up and check a fresh mirror before retiring an old one, so the rotation never leaves a gap. The full set with copy buttons lives on the Anubis listing. Bookmark this directory rather than any single onion, since the list refreshes.

Why three mirrors and not one

A single onion link is a single point of failure. If it is flooded, slow, or rotated out, a one-address market is simply down for you, and you are left hunting forums for a replacement. Three mirrors spread the load and the risk. While one absorbs an attack, the other two keep serving, and because the operator brings a fresh mirror online before retiring a tired one, there is always a working door even mid-rotation. That is the whole logic of a rotating onion mirror set, and it is one of the things we check before a market earns a place in this directory.

Which one should I use?

Start with the first. If its challenge layer stalls on your circuit, drop to the next, then the last. If all three fail at once, the market is dealing with a flood; use "New Tor Circuit for this Site", wait a few minutes, and retry. Nine times in ten the issue is your circuit rather than the market, and a fresh circuit clears it.

Copying the address safely

Every onion address here is fifty six characters before the .onion suffix. Do not hand-type that. Use the Copy button on the Anubis listing, which hands you the exact string rather than the shortened display version, then paste it straight into the Tor Browser. The habits page explains why copy-not-retype is the rule that prevents the worst kind of mistake.

Frequently asked

Why does the address sometimes change?
Mirrors rotate. That is normal and healthy. Bookmark the directory and you always see the current set.

Is the third mirror less safe?
No, just slower. It runs on lower-throughput relays as a deliberate failover, so reach for it when the first two are busy.

What if every mirror is down?
Wait and retry after a new Tor circuit. A simultaneous outage usually means an active flood, which passes. The FAQ has the full routine.