77x6lmfaxyqskpcjidkl5r7mnounjzp6fqe7oqeu3au6hsv4xgkmasad.onionWhat the string reports
Computed fields
- Full address
- 77x6lmfaxyqskpcjidkl5r7mnounjzp6fqe7oqeu3au6hsv4xgkmasad.onion
- Characters before .onion
- 56
- Characters including suffix
- 62
- Alphabet check
- pass · no 0, 1, 8 or 9
- Letters
- 46
- Digits
- 10 · 17.9% of the string
- Distinct symbols used
- 28 of 32
- Symbols never used
- b t w 2
- Most frequent symbol
- 7 · 4 times
- Longest run of one character
- 2 · 7
- Opens with the market name
- no
- Longest prefix shared with another address here
- 1 · with 7iaj3wjp
A leading digit is not a warning sign
People who have spent twenty years typing domain names carry an instinct that names start with letters. Almost every brand they have ever typed does. When a string opens with 77 the instinct fires and the address feels off, as if something in it is broken or as if it were a serial number rather than a name.
Nothing is broken. An onion address is not a name that somebody chose. It is an encoding of a public key, and the encoding treats all 32 of its symbols the same way. The first character is drawn from the same pool as the fifty-fifth. Two sevens at the front is exactly as likely as any other pair, and across a set of twelve strings you would expect a leading digit now and then. Here it happens twice, in this address and in the one starting 7iaj.
That coincidence is the whole reason this page can report a shared prefix at all. Those two addresses agree on their first character and disagree on everything after it. One character is the longest agreement anywhere in the set, across all sixty-six possible pairs. In a set of unrelated random strings that is close to what chance predicts, and it is the strongest evidence on this site that the twelve were not built to resemble each other.
So the instinct is worth nothing as a safety check. A leading digit does not make a TorZon market link fake, and a leading letter does not make one genuine. The only thing the first character tells you is which of the twelve you might be looking at, and even then you have to read the other 55 before you know.
The three zones of this string
This address is the joint most front-loaded with digits in the set, carrying three of them in the first eight characters. Its middle runs digit-heavy too. The last eight characters contain no digit at all.
| Zone | Characters | Value | Digits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Head | 1 to 8 | 77x6lmfa | 3 |
| Middle | 21 to 40 | 5r7mnounjzp6fqe7oqeu | 4 |
| Tail | 49 to 56 | xgkmasad | 0 |
Questions
Can a TorZon onion link really start with a number?
Yes. The base32 alphabet used for onion addresses contains the digits 2 through 7 alongside the 26 lowercase letters, and any of the 32 can land in any position including the first.
Is sharing a first character with another address suspicious?
No, it is expected. With 32 possible opening characters and twelve strings, a collision on the first character is more likely than not. What would matter is a long agreement, and the longest anywhere in this set is one character.