AWMProxy is gone: it sold bundles of elite HTTP and SOCKS proxies, first in Russian on awmproxy.com from 2008 and then in English on its .net site. In November 2021 the shop announced new owners and a new domain, and it went on as VD.net and then proxs.ru. By March 2025 that shop told its customers it had "closed permanently". On 27 September 2026 the .net name forwarded to a proxy review site, and none of its other names sold proxies. The alternatives table compares five options, read the same day.
The record, with dates
| date | what happened |
|---|---|
| April 2008 | First archived page of awmproxy.com: "AWM Proxy". |
| September 2011 | awmproxy.net appears in the Internet Archive. |
| December 2018 | The English site sells "Elite private proxy for professional work. From 95 USD per month." |
| October 2021 | Last archived shop pages under the AWMProxy name, on both sites. |
| November 2021 | "The project has a new domain and new owners!" The same shop opens on VD.net. |
| August 2022 | The same pages run on proxs.ru, still titled VD.net. |
| December 2023 | awmproxy.net forwards to proxs.ru. |
| January 2025 | The registration of awmproxy.net has expired. |
| February 2025 | Last archived page of proxs.ru that still sells plans. |
| March 2025 | The homepage of proxs.ru says the project "has closed permanently". |
| 30 March 2025 | awmproxy.net is registered again, at Dynadot. |
| June 2025 | proxs.ru returns a server error in the archive. |
| 12 August 2026 | proxs.ru is registered again and shows a placeholder page. |
| 27 September 2026 | Our check: awmproxy.net forwards to a proxy review site; awmproxy.com and vd.net have no address. |
Sources: the Internet Archive, the Verisign and .ru registries, and our own check.
What it sold
AWMProxy sold bundles, not single proxies. Its 2018 site offered "Private HTTP/SOCKS proxies" from "The largest database of proxy at the lowest prices", billed by threads, the connections you could open at once. A one-day plan with 12,000 proxies and up to 4,000 threads cost $15, and monthly plans started "From 95 USD per month".
In 2021 the Russian shop listed plans at $50, $190 and $390, sized by threads, and warned of a price rise. It took PayPal from December 2018, and it said it blocked the sites banned by the Russian regulator, as well as access to Telegram.
What the new owners sold, and how it ended
The new owners kept the pages and the plans, then changed how they counted. From May 2023 every plan counted traffic, and in July 2023 the shop added plans with no traffic limit. It also said it had no US proxies and served no clients from the US.
By January 2025 the shop sold traffic by the month. A plan of 1,000 GB cost $100 and had to be used within 30 days, and "Unused traffic will burn out", even on renewal. A year of 10,000 GB cost $2,000, which the shop called "20 cents" per GB.
In March 2025 the homepage read: "with great regret we inform you that our project has closed permanently". It sent refund requests to a Telegram account and pointed customers to three other proxy sellers. It gave no reason for the closure.
Why some reviews still recommend it
Two review pages still present it as open: one, last changed in December 2023, describes 12,000 proxies for $95, and another, dated September 2026, calls it a provider "that you should not discard". Neither of them mentions the new owners of 2021, and the second reviews a shop that had closed a year and a half before.
What we could not check
- Who the new owners were: the notice of November 2021 names no one.
- Why the shop closed, since the notice of March 2025 gives no reason.
- Who holds the .net name now, and why it sends visitors to a review site.
Five alternatives, read the same day
Every line below comes from the page of each option, read from our server on 27 September 2026.
| option | price | how often it changes | what it says about testing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proxifly free proxy list | free | "every 5 minutes" | It "found 33460 working proxies from 141 countries" in its latest update. |
| monosans proxy list | free | "re-checked every hour" | "Every proxy in this repository was verified minutes ago." |
| ProxyScrape free proxy list | free | "refreshed every minute" | "Verified by automated checkers", in 180+ countries. |
| HProxy free proxy list | free | verified around the clock | Live HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxies. No sign-up. |
| HProxy Lite | $0.50/GB for 1 GB, $0.44/GB at 2,000 GB+ | a rotating residential line | The balance never expires. |
Which one to pick
- You used AWMProxy bundles for jobs that tolerate dead entries: a free list that tests what it lists.
- You need proxies that hold a login or a checkout: a paid line. Our Lite costs $0.50/GB for 1 GB, and Premium adds city and ISP targeting at $1.49 for one GB.
Whichever list you use, run it through our free proxy checker first. It tests up to 100,000 proxies with no sign-up.
The limits of this record
Everything AWMProxy and its successors sold comes from the Internet Archive, so their prices are archived, not current. We checked every name from our server on 27 September 2026, and this page is due for a check by 27 December 2026.
Sources
Read on 27 September 2026, from our server:
- awmproxy.net and awmproxy.com, live requests, and their Internet Archive captures from 2008 to 2025.
- VD.net and proxs.ru, their Internet Archive captures from 2021 to 2025, and live requests.
- Verisign, registry records for awmproxy.net, awmproxy.com and vd.net, and the .ru registry for proxs.ru.
- PrivateProxyReviews and StupidProxy, their AWMProxy reviews.
- Proxifly and monosans repositories, and the ProxyScrape free proxy list page.
- HProxy, our free proxy list, proxy checker and product catalogue.
