A waiting-room page in front of the login that holds every visitor for a short spell so bots cannot hammer the captcha behind it. A flood raises its wait time.
Availability
The share of checks over a window in which an address resolved and answered. Reported on this board per mirror as an uptime percentage.
Descriptor
The information a Tor hidden service publishes so clients can reach it. After a refresh, descriptors take time to propagate, which can briefly slow resolution.
Fallback
A secondary or tertiary address you switch to when the primary is slow. Equally genuine and equally safe once verified.
Finalise-early (FE)
Confirming receipt before a package arrives. It releases escrow to the vendor and removes the dispute path. Avoid it on an unproven vendor.
Guard
The first relay in your Tor circuit. Long-lived addresses tend to route through known-good guards, which is part of why they resolve faster.
Incident
A logged event that affected reachability, with a date, a severity and a resolution. The board keeps a running incident log.
Latency
How long an address takes to clear the queue and render the login on a healthy circuit. The board reads it low, medium or high per mirror.
Mirror
A distinct onion address that resolves to the same market. Awazon runs three so a problem with one does not take the market down.
Onion address
A fifty-six character v3 Tor address ending in .onion. Copy it, never type it, and verify it against the login captcha before entering credentials.
PGP-signed pool
The set of addresses the market publishes with a PGP signature. Verifying the signature is how you know an address came from the market and not an impersonator.
Rotation
Adding or retiring an address in the pool. Announced with a signature. A freshly rotated address may resolve slowly until its descriptors propagate.
Uptime
See availability. Reported per mirror as a percentage over the observation window.
