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A decision by the IETF means that compliant browsers and software should keep requests for Tor .onion domains off the public Internet:
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the body that sets standards for the Internet, has formally recognized .onion names. We think that this is a small and important landmark in the movement to build privacy into the structure of the Internet. This standardization work for .onion is joint work between Facebook and the Tor Project amongst others in an effort to help secure users everywhere.
[...] During our long journey which began in the Summer of Snowden, Alec Muffett and I were encouraged to split out .onion from the list of other peer to peer names and to make a separate draft to register .onion as a Special-Use Domain Name. In this draft we listed security and privacy considerations that we believe will help to protect end users from targeted and mass-surveillance. We're happy to say that the first name reservation was just published as RFC7686.
Our internet standard reflects on considerations for handling .onion names on the internet as well as officially reserving .onion as a Special-Use-Domain-Name with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). With this registration, it is should also be possible to buy Extended Validation (EV) SSL/TLS certificates for .onion services thanks to a recent decision by the Certification Authority Browser Forum. We hope that in the future we'll see easy to issue certificates from the Let's Encrypt project for .onion services. We also hope to see more Peer to Peer names such as .gnu registered as Special-Use-Domain-Names by the IETF.
It is now easier than ever to deploy, share and use Tor Hidden Services.
Via The Register .
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @02:10AM
It is not auto-completing. It is the root domain.
Right now (at 2:09 UTC), the main page is showing "Breaking News" stories.
1. Canada Does an About Face (Elects Liberal Majority Government) (Tuesday October 20, @02:00AM)
2. Scott Walker Drops Out of US Presidential Race (Monday September 21, @07:28PM)
3. Massive Earthquake off Coast of Chile (Wednesday September 16, @09:58PM)
4. Despite Homeland Security Opposition, Tor is back at New Hampshire Library (Wednesday September 16, @04:10PM)
and so on.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @02:20AM
Hi, different AC here. When I open http://7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion/ [7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion] I'm currently seeing the "Meta" section. When I last did so, several weeks ago, it was showing the "Main" section as expected. However (again, weeks ago), when I would click on the title of a stories, my browser (Tor Browser) would often fail to load the page, with a message about how "the page is not redirecting properly". Currently, I'm not seeing that error. Currently, when I open http://7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion [7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion] (note the absence of the trailing slash) I see the "Breaking News" section with the stories about the Canadian Election, Scott Walker's presidential campaign etc. as listed by the other AC. Opening http://7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion/breakingnews/ [7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion] shows the same thing, as of course it should.