English

Proper noun

Onionland

1. (Internet slang) Those portions of the Internet accessible via onion routing.
   • 2014, Mark Nichols, Darknet: Encrypted Ocean:

     Opening his laptop, he went over all of her sister's details: her contacts in the anonymous Tor Onionland where ip addresses were ghosts, and yet had managed to trace her using a simple javascript exploit.

   • 2015, Claire Finkelstein, Jens David Ohlin, Kevin Govern, Cyber War: Law and Ethics for Virtual Conflicts, page 22:

     From a cultural perspective, phenomena such as Tor software that helps navigate Onionland will inevitably affect our sense of how threatening cyberweapons can be. Onionland is a sort of Old West Robber's Roost in the virtual landscape […]