The darkened web is World Wide Web Content on darknets: Overlay networks that use the web, but require specific software, settings or access permission. Private computer networks can communicate and conduct companies anonymously through the dark web, without disclosing information such as a location for the user. The dark web forms a small part of the deep web, which is not indexed by web search engines, even if the term deep web sometimes mistakenly refers to the dark web. ¹⁾

Over the past 3 years Dark Web activity has grown 300%. ²⁾