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Re: [tor-talk] "Hidden Services" vs "Onion services"



Onion sites sounds nice to me too.  But we might have to change the
name to from tor2web to onion2web.

-V

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Seth David Schoen <schoen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nathan Freitas writes:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014, at 11:38 PM, Virgil Griffith wrote:
>> > I'll start trying "onion service" and just see if it catches on.
>>
>> Since these things are mostly used for websites, why not call them
>> "onion sites" or "onionsites"?
>>
>> Typical users don't talk about web services, they talk about web sites
>> or pages. Perhaps they say "online service" but that usually means an
>> ISP or something larger than just a site, imo.
>>
>> "Turn your website into an onionsite"
>> "Access the onionsite in the same way you access a website"
>
> It could be technically consistent to say both "hidden services" and
> "onion sites" -- you could say that onion sites are web sites that are
> served as hidden services.
>
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