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About addresses

Gone

Awazon addresses

Three published addresses for the same market. Copy rather than retype.

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awazonth6ocz5cyos63czmhtsglqr7ydkdcc4lopux7nxbauoo2qmvyd.onion
awazonvaqbgkhirejon6qnlxcjibrhkqhzh2xb2lclc6t67vxhlvjkyd.onion

This list is published, not monitored. An address that opens is not an address that is genuine, and the signed roster entry explains what actually settles that.

The clearest single warning in this book, and the one that reaches the most experienced readers.

What it literally says
That an address is no longer in use.
What it actually means
It has left the published set. Whatever it did before, it is not part of the market any more.
What it does not mean
That it will stay silent. A retired address carries years of accumulated recognition, which is exactly what makes it worth answering at.
What to do
Delete it rather than archiving it. An address kept just in case is one you might paste on a distracted evening months later.
If it looks different
It starts answering again. That is not a recovery, and it is the moment this entire entry exists for.
CommonPeriodically
Needs actionDelete it
If it answers againClose the tab

Why this one reaches the wrong people

Every other warning in this book is filtered by experience. This one inverts that. The reader most likely to hold a long dead address is the one who has been doing this longest, has the strongest sense of knowing what they are doing, and is least likely to look closely at a string they recognise.

Familiarity does all the work, and familiarity has never been evidence of anything.

Being precise about what is possible

Possible?
Taking over the exact addressNo, absent a key compromise. Serving traffic there requires the private key it was derived from.
Standing up a close resemblanceYes, and cheaply. This is what you will actually encounter.

So the thing answering is a near miss: a familiar opening, sometimes a familiar ending, and a middle that differs. Whoever runs it inherits every old post, archived page and bookmark pointing at the original, without doing anything to earn them.

The ruleNothing retired returns under the same string. If an address you saved stopped working and now serves a login page, close the tab and take a current one from the published set.

The habit that removes it

  1. Keep addresses somewhere you control, with the date beside each one.
  2. Compare against the published set every few weeks. Under a minute, and it is the whole maintenance burden.
  3. Delete rather than archive when something drops off.
  4. Check the middle of any address you did not paste from a current list.