NEXUS MARKET // ABOUT THIS RECORD

About this official Nexus Market address reference

A short account of what this site is, what it declines to do, and which of its statements you should treat as a claim rather than as a fact you can check yourself.

I//WHAT THIS SITE IS

It is a reference page for three strings. The whole of its content is those strings plus the reading you need in order to use them without being fooled by a copy that looks almost right. Nothing else is on offer and nothing else is being sold.

The phrase official Nexus Market shows up on a great many pages, and on most of them it means nothing more than that whoever wrote the page would like you to believe it. Here it means one narrow thing: these are the addresses the operator of this site publishes, unaltered, in the same form on all six language versions.

II//WHAT IT REFUSES TO DO

• It does not open connections to any onion service. Nothing here pings, probes or polls, so no page can honestly tell you whether a service answered a moment ago.
• It does not shorten an address, hide it behind a redirect, or route it through a clearnet gateway host that would sit between you and the service.
• It does not count vendors, users or orders. Those are numbers about the market, and this site has no way to measure them, so it prints none.
• It does not ask for an account, an email address or a wallet, and it runs no analytics.

III//HOW A RECORD REACHES THE PAGE

A record is a string supplied by the operator and typed into one configuration file. Every page in every language reads that same file, which is the reason the list cannot drift between the German page and the Chinese one. If a string changes, it changes once and appears changed everywhere at the same moment.

That design fixes one failure mode and no others. It guarantees the pages agree with each other. It cannot guarantee that a string still resolves, and you should not read the agreement between pages as evidence about the service behind them.

IV//WHY THERE IS NO UPTIME NUMBER

A percentage next to an address is the easiest thing in the world to print and one of the hardest to earn. To mean anything it would need a schedule of checks, a record of what each check returned, and an honest account of what a failed check proves, which is often only that one exit path was unhappy for a minute.

This site runs no such checks, so it prints no such number. The status strip near the top says only how many records the page lists, and it says plainly that no availability testing was performed.

V//WHO SHOULD IGNORE THIS SITE

If you are here for a recommendation, a rating or a comparison, none of that exists on these pages. If you want a live dashboard, this is the wrong kind of site and saying so is more useful than inventing one.