Is Fawkes Market down right now?

At our latest check in November 2026 the market was online across all five official access points. If one link fails, try another mirror — individual access points go down far more often than the market itself.

Why won't the Fawkes onion address load?

Usually a slow Tor circuit or a DDoS attack on the market. Reload, request a new Tor circuit, then try a clearnet mirror before concluding the market is down.

Fawkes Market Status — Is Fawkes Market Down?

Latest full check: November 2026 — all five official access points online.

This page tracks the health of Fawkes Market's five official access points — one onion address and four clearnet mirrors — and explains how to verify an outage yourself in five minutes, because "the market is down" is one of the most over-diagnosed conditions on the darknet.

The access points

Access point	URL	Notes
Tor onion	fawkesgrixgdi6mepgocuntt34o73okuasaxmuqyu4miskuhhzp2dgad.onion	Requires Tor Browser; most resilient
Clearnet 1	fawkesmarket.ru	Primary mirror
Clearnet 2	fawkesnetwork.ru	Backup mirror
Clearnet 3	fawkesmarket.com	Additional mirror
Clearnet 4	fawkesmarket.in	Additional mirror

Diagnose an outage in five minutes

1Try another access point

If the onion fails, try a clearnet mirror; if a mirror fails, try the onion. DDoS floods and domain problems usually hit one door at a time — the market is built with five doors precisely so that buyers can keep trading through attacks.

2Check the canonical hub

fawkes.sc is the market's own page, kept online through attacks and address changes. Bookmark it (and fawkes.shop) — it is the first place official updates appear.

3Fix your Tor circuit

In Tor Browser: circuit icon → "New circuit for this site". Still nothing? Restart the browser. A bad relay is the most common fake outage there is.

4Cross-check your network

Try mobile data. Corporate networks, some school networks and over-eager parental filters break Tor in ways that look exactly like a market outage.

5Check community chatter — carefully

Darknet forums (Dread and friends) fill with reports during genuine outages. Read them for confirmation, but never click "new mirror" links posted by strangers — downtime is prime phishing season.

What usually causes "downtime"

DDoS extortion (most common)

Attacks flood access points hoping to extort the market or push buyers to phishing clones. Mirrors absorb the damage; the market rides it out.

Routine maintenance

Short, announced breaks. Escrow, balances and orders wait patiently — nothing is lost.

Single-domain trouble

A registrar suspends one mirror domain. Annoying for that mirror; irrelevant to the other four doors.

Your own connection

Slow circuits, DNS weirdness, ISP interference. The five-minute check above rules these out first.

During downtime: the rules

Never hunt for links in a panic. Bookmarks and fawkes.sc only — phishing sites do their best business during outages.
Never finalise early to "help a vendor out" during downtime.
Keep your keys safe. Your PGP private key and password are your account; back them up offline.
Expect extensions. Escrow and dispute windows are generally extended during long outages.

FAQ

One mirror has been down for days — should I worry?

No. As long as other official access points respond, the market is fine; that's the point of having five doors. Watch fawkes.sc for any replacement of a dead mirror.

How often is this page updated?

We verify links each time we publish or update coverage — most recently November 2026 — and immediately follow any changes announced at fawkes.sc.

Is my money safe if the market is offline for a week?

Balances stay put during outages, and escrowed orders are untouched. The standing advice applies: keep only your working balance on the market.