Dear Tor Devs.
Instead of supporting only securedrop.tor.onion addresses in Tor Browser Bundle, it should be IMHO the highest priority in 2026 to develop such .onion name space for the general audience, which supports you with donations, instead of a handful of journalists, which do not bring much to the table or are helping the community with privacy issues.
I would like to point out that this should be not a free service and should be handled like registering a regular clear net domain, so that the money goes to torproject.org, providing such service.
.tor.onion domains only work in Tor Browser for desktop (I believe), and rely on Freedom of the Press Foundation maintaining a list of rulesets for SecureDrop onions that instruct Tor Browser which onion names relate to which onion addresses. It’s only a proof-of-concept, and is not suitable for mass adoption.
There are a few different ideas for how we could implement human-friendly onion addresses, but this is not an insignificant project, and the research phase alone would require an independent source of funding. @rhatto (who is the expert here) discusses this in his segment from this year’s State of the Onion, if you’re interested in learning more:
Thanks for your reply, much appreciated. So, hopefully torproject.org will then focus on this very important subject, in the near future, regardless of funding, since this should be later IMHO be a paid service, to cover development costs.