Verifying a Nexus Market address
The failure mode here is not dramatic. You paste an address that is one character off, the page loads, it looks exactly right, and you log in. Then you notice the address bar does not match what you copied. The check takes twenty seconds. Do it before you enter a password.
nexusb2l7jnnbmofyik5fqdemwg6inbg4e3i2pi75uewuw34zwvx2ryd.onionnexusma2iekjhhyenua3u4zlyfsj2ubwxr2nt6gdte5rvwukzze63fyd.onionnexusabcdrstn74osnr67fsbzbo44kjpxqbbz5ymcwhlxjg6dloyhoyd.onion
The easy check
Copy the address from the box above. Paste it into Tor Browser. Then read the address bar in three chunks and compare against what you copied: the first six characters, the last six characters, and the middle. A typo almost always shows up in one of the three.
The last characters are the most telling. Clones and mistypes usually match the beginning and diverge at the end, because the beginning is the part everyone remembers.
What a real address looks like
- 56 characters before the
.onion, then.onion. Nothing longer, nothing shorter. - Lowercase letters and digits only. No capitals, no dashes, no spaces.
- It starts with
nexus. Every current Nexus Market mirror does. - It ends in
.onion, not.onion.to, not some gateway domain, not anything else.
The address printed in the page
The Nexus Market login page prints the onion address it is serving from, right in the page. Before you enter your password, find that line and compare it with your address bar, character for character. A clone can copy the branding. It cannot make the printed address match a URL it does not control.
If something feels off
You do not need to be able to name the feeling. Close the tab. Go back to this page. Copy again, paste again. If the address you pasted from here still does not match the address bar, your browser or your copy is doing something strange, and it is worth understanding that before you type anything sensitive.