In reality though, most onion sites don't even stick around for very long anyway. And the URL scheme has nothing to do with it. Most sites are either illegal in

In reality though, most onion sites don't even stick around for very long anyway. And the URL scheme has nothing to do with it. Most sites are either illegal in nature and so regularly disappear for various reasons(police, exit scams etc), or they're just onion versions of clearnet sites, which means they'll be easy to find the new URL for. Or they just stop working because they cease to be maintained.