Per-service status
Omega Onion Status 2026: Is Omega Market Reachable Right Now?
Oniongate measures a single fact about the omega darknet market: whether its onion endpoint answers, and how fast. The reading is set by an automated probe, never by hand. Note the spelling, too — this is omega, a distinct marketplace, and not the unrelated market sometimes written mega, nor a watch brand or a dietary supplement. Oniongate tracks this omega onion market the same way it tracks every other listed service, on one shared, honest probe loop.
How to read omega's status numbers
Why Oniongate tracks Omega instead of just linking to it
Oniongate exists because a link alone tells a visitor nothing about whether Omega actually answers right now. Every Omega mirror on oniongate is probed on the same recurring loop as the other six markets Oniongate follows, scored independently, and shown with an honest Unknown state rather than a guess. Oniongate does not operate Omega and cannot vouch for anything past the network layer — only whether the listed Omega addresses responded to the last probe.
What the 24h, 7d and 30d uptime windows mean
Each uptime card is a rolling percentage of successful probes over that window, recalculated every cycle rather than fixed to a calendar day. The 24h figure reacts fastest and swings the most on a single bad stretch; the 30d figure smooths past a short outage and reflects the longer pattern. Read the 24h card for "is anything wrong right now" and the 30d card for "how reliable has omega actually been."
Reading omega's per-mirror breakdown
omega has 1 endpoint on file in the signed directory below, each probed and scored independently rather than rolled into one shared number. A single mirror reading Down while the others read Online usually points at that specific mirror, not at omega as a whole — check whether the pattern is isolated to one address or shared across all of them before drawing a conclusion.
What to do if omega reads unknown
Unknown means the probe loop has no fresh result to report for omega, not that anything is wrong. It shows up right after this status page is first added to oniongate, and it shows up if the probe feed itself goes offline — in both cases every service on oniongate reads unknown together, not just this one. Wait for the next cycle and refresh rather than treating an unknown reading as a sign the market itself is in trouble.
Probe timeline
last 30 checksEach cell is one probe, newest on the right. The strip fills as the loop runs; with no feed attached yet, every check reads unknown rather than a colour oniongate cannot stand behind.
Mirrors — monitored endpoint
1 endpoint on fileomega7uedcjqlwt3hwf4emqbkwynvizci3ukiipbdoqeqmyvhpr4i5ad.onionThis address comes from the signed 2-of-3 directory. oniongate measures the omega endpoint; it does not create addresses. An omega address that is not on this signed list is not one oniongate monitor.
Honest answers
Is omega down?
Read the banner. Down means the latest probe failed to reach the listed omega endpoint; unknown means no recent measurement exists to report. The word reflects what oniongate's probe could reach over Tor at that moment, not a judgement on the marketplace, and it ages into unknown rather than freezing on a stale value.
Is omega the same as mega?
No. They are different marketplaces that are easy to confuse in writing, and treating one as the other is exactly how a wrong address gets copied. Oniongate is only about omega and the signed omega onion above. Verify the full string yourself and do not assume a similar-looking name points to the same service.
Is the omega link here the real one?
It is the one in oniongate's signed source, and you should still confirm it. Copy the complete onion string above and match it character by character against a second trusted source. Oniongate publish the whole address as plain text so a pre-clicked or trimmed link never has to be trusted blindly.
How current is the omega reading?
When the feed is live, the row shows how long ago its last check completed. Tor is slow and mirrors change, so a stale timestamp is worth noting. If the reading is unknown, the loop has not reported for omega yet, and oniongate say so rather than inventing a status.
Does Oniongate probe Omega more than once a day?
Yes, on a recurring loop rather than a single daily check. Omega's mirrors are probed repeatedly through the day so a row here reflects a recent measurement, not a stale one from hours earlier. The exact interval varies with probing load across all seven tracked markets.
If Omega shows Unknown across every mirror, does that mean it is seized?
No — treat an all-Unknown reading as a monitoring gap, not a seizure claim. It usually means the probing loop for Omega has not reported recently, whether from a restart, a Tor circuit issue on oniongate's end, or a temporary gap in the feed. A seizure is a specific claim oniongate does not make without a signed statement to back it.
What this oniongate omega status page cannot tell you
A reachability reading is a narrow, specific claim. Here is what it does and does not cover, so a green dot next to omega is not mistaken for more than it actually says.
Reachability is not the same as legitimacy
A probe reaching omega's onion address confirms the service answered a network request within the timeout window. It says nothing about escrow practices, vendor vetting, or whether a specific listing inside omega is genuine — those questions belong on omega's own reference and verification pages, not on a reachability board. Treat oniongate as one input among several, not a verdict on whether omega itself is trustworthy.
Why one mirror's reading is not the whole picture
omega may publish more than one onion endpoint, and each one is probed independently. A single dead mirror does not mean omega itself is down if other mirrors on file are still answering — check the full mirror table below rather than reading one row as the complete state of the service. Conversely, one live mirror during a wider outage is not proof everything is fine; it only means that one specific address is currently reachable.
How to use oniongate alongside omega's own verification steps
Before trusting any omega address copied from oniongate or anywhere else, verify it against omega's own signed record — a PGP fingerprint match, not a status dot, is what actually establishes that an address is genuine. This status page exists to answer "is it reachable right now," a question omega's own reference site is not built to answer continuously; the two pages do different jobs and neither replaces the other.
Omega onion market: mirror & incident log
omega gets the same short single-mirror log format as wethenorth and drughub, kept here as its own record rather than a generic paragraph oniongate repeats unchanged across every tracked market.
Incident log
No incidents are logged for omega in the current window. A single-endpoint market like omega has no second mirror on oniongate's own roster to compare against during a rough cycle, so an entry here only gets added once several consecutive checks agree, reducing the odds that one noisy Tor circuit gets mistaken for a genuine change in omega's reachability.
Mirror history
Omega is tracked with a single onion address on file. Because there is only one address to verify, the fingerprint-matching step matters more here than on a five-mirror market like torzon or mars: store the confirmed address and its signature in something built for the job, such as KeePassXC, rather than a note app or browser bookmark that a phishing clone's near-identical address could quietly overwrite. If omega ever adds a second mirror, oniongate will log that change here rather than silently expanding the mirror table without a note explaining why the count moved.
Reading omega's single-mirror setup on oniongate
omega is tracked here with one monitored onion endpoint, matching drughub and wethenorth as the leanest mirror footprint among the seven markets OnionGate watches.
What running on one endpoint means for this status page
With a single tracked address, omega's status page has no second mirror to fall back on for context if that address reads Checking or Down — the reading you see is the whole picture oniongate has. That makes independent verification of the current address, rather than reliance on oniongate alone, more important than it would be for a market with several mirrors.
What this reading cannot tell you about omega itself
Reachability says nothing about omega's vendor base, escrow handling, or how actively it is maintained beyond answering a network probe. Treat a reachable reading as the floor of due diligence on omega, not the ceiling.
A worked example: cross-checking omega’s single onion address against a second source
Why one monitored endpoint puts more weight on verification
omega is tracked here with one monitored onion address. With no second mirror on oniongate to compare against, verifying that specific address against a second independent source before connecting matters more than it would for a market oniongate tracks across several endpoints. The signed directory referenced on the about page is that second source — check the address printed on oniongate against it character by character, not just against your memory of a previous visit.
What a Down reading means when there is only one address to check
For a single-mirror market like omega, a Down reading has nowhere else to point — there is no second endpoint to fall back on within oniongate's own data. That makes the 24h/7d/30d history on oniongate more useful than the live tile alone: a single Down cycle against an otherwise clean 30-day record reads very differently than a Down reading that has been sustained across the last several checks.
Why a single reading for omega deserves a second look before you trust it
Because omega is tracked here through only one monitored onion address, there is no second mirror on oniongate to sanity-check a surprising reading against. If omega shows Down here but you have independent reason to believe otherwise, checking the raw probe history further up oniongate for a pattern — one miss versus several consecutive ones — is more informative than treating a single tile as the final word.
Omega as a darknet market: what oniongate's status actually verifies
Omega is one of seven darknet markets oniongate probes on the same Tor loop, and the status word on this page describes exactly one thing: whether Omega's onion address answered a Tor request within the timeout window on the most recent probe cycle. Nothing about Omega's inventory, its vendor base, or any uptime claim Omega makes on its own front page factors into this reading — oniongate did not consult Omega's marketing, it consulted a stopwatch and a Tor circuit.
Why "darknet market status" means something narrow here
A lot of pages use the phrase "darknet market status" to mean a vague blend of reputation, activity level, and uptime folded into one score. oniongate's Omega status page does not do that. Reachability over Tor is the only signal this page reports, and every other question about Omega — whether it is a good market to use, whether its escrow is sound, whether its vendor base is currently active — belongs to Omega's own reference material, not to this status reading.
How often Omega's Tor status actually changes
Most probe cycles produce no change at all: Omega's onion address answers the way it answered last cycle, and the status word simply repeats. A change only gets logged on this darknet market's page when Omega's status genuinely flips between Online, Checking, Down and Unknown — oniongate does not manufacture drama by treating an unchanged Tor reading as new information about the market.