Awazon Market mirrors, all in one place

The set

One hidden service can be published at several onion addresses at once. Each address carries its own ed25519 key pair, so the strings differ from one another in the middle and at the end. The storefront, the login form, the wallet balance and the vendor list behind them are single copies, not three databases that have to be kept in step.

• http://awazonvewzuve3emyxtz2z7ko6bjv6m6qieioi2tuvbgwiomn6vyryyd.onion
• http://awazonvjpi6bdysnad23ydgscomsku53wnfewrbbpxobvzow5xe6nyyd.onion
• http://awazonwilo4vky6obkwrkv62vx24tnf5323pts6d7gohdoj4pjt646qd.onion

Compared against the operators’ signed announcement on 18 September 2026.

The awazon prefix is not the security model

Every address starts with the same six letters because the operator generated key pairs until the derived hostname began with that word. It is a vanity prefix in the literal sense: a key was hunted until the hash came out with a readable opening. It makes an address recognisable at a glance, and it is also the first thing a phishing page copies.

The check that actually works lives in the parts a phisher has to earn. The last six characters come from the same key material as the rest of the string, so they cannot be faked by pasting a good prefix onto a random middle. Compare the beginning and the end against an announcement the operator signed, and treat a middle you cannot match as a middle that has been edited.

The other reason to keep the set small is attention. A wall of twenty near identical addresses guarantees that the one you paste is the one you misread.

How to copy an onion URL without wrecking it

• Copy from a page, never from a chat log or a screenshot. A forwarded message has already been through whatever the messenger does to long strings.
• Select the whole line. Double clicking the location bar in Tor Browser selects all 56 characters plus the scheme, and then you copy.
• Check the tail. The last six characters are the part that changes between mirrors and the part an autocompleted URL is most likely to get wrong.
• Put http:// in front if you pasted from somewhere that stripped it. Onion URIs are still usually served over plain HTTP inside the onion layer, so the missing padlock means nothing either way.
• Bookmark one address rather than a page that only lists them. A bookmark to a directory is one more piece of infrastructure that has to be online on the day you need it.

When a mirror does not answer

A v3 onion address carries a list of introduction points inside its own routing data, so an address that fails once is usually a routing or congestion problem and not evidence that the shop closed. Try the second address, then the third, then close the tab and open it again instead of pressing reload four times. Tor Browser holds a bad circuit open for a moment and reloading only stacks up more circuits.

If all three fail across a whole day that is a different signal. The honest reading then is that the hidden service is down or its addresses have moved, and the useful move is to look for a signed announcement rather than to trust whichever clone has the prettiest landing page.

Questions about these addresses

Do onion addresses expire?

No. A v3 onion has no registrar and no renewal date. What changes is whether the operator still keeps that service online, which is why the date sits under the list.

Why are they 56 characters long?

A v3 onion name is the base32 encoding of a 32 byte ed25519 public key. Base32 turns 32 bytes into 52 characters, and the checksum plus the version byte add four more. The long version walks through the string piece by piece.

Why does Awazon Market run more than one mirror?

Redundancy against a bad routing path and against an address cached in a bookmark. The same storefront sits behind every one of them.

Does a mirror change what happens to my money?

No. The escrow rules, the multisig policy and the dispute process belong to the market and stay identical whichever door you came in through. Escrow and disputes covers those.