A Dutch IP comes from an internet provider in the Netherlands. A residential one comes from a home or mobile line at KPN, Vodafone, Odido, Ziggo or a smaller provider. A residential proxy routes your traffic through one of those lines. Dutch sites then show you local prices, Dutch search results and the ads that run there.
The Dutch registry holds a surprise: its largest single record belongs to SURF, the research network, with 21.8% of the country's IPv4 addresses. Companies such as Philips, and the JAB network maintained by IBM, hold large blocks too. Seller pools equal 4.7% of the 47.9 million addresses at most. All 34 working free Dutch proxies on our list were flagged on October 26, 2026. Our residential proxies target the Netherlands at $0.50/GB for one GB.
Which networks does a Dutch IP come from?
RIPE NCC, the internet registry for Europe, keeps a file of every block it hands out, with the holder's country. With records to October 25, 2026, it lists 47,903,520 IPv4 addresses for the Netherlands, in 6,230 blocks held by 1,571 holders:
KPN maintains two of the large records, one named for Solcon's fiber lines and one for "Static IP KPN customers". Vodafone's record is marked "Mobile Live Services", Odido's "Pool for fixed WBA users" and Ziggo's "CPE Customers NL". Company blocks rank high too: the JAB network maintained by IBM, Philips, Signify and a ministry. At the bottom, 1,398 holders with 16,384 addresses or fewer share 5.5%.
Routing tells the rest. On October 26, 2026, SURF's own networks announced 6.0 million of its 10.4 million addresses, and 4.0 million were not announced at all. Vodafone Libertel's network carries both the Vodafone record and most of Ziggo's, 6.4 million addresses. The company blocks are quieter still: 1,053,696 of the 1,059,072 addresses in Philips' record were not announced. AT&T's network announces most of the routed part of the JAB record.
Our Netherlands proxies page lists 112 networks for Residential Premium, among them KPN, Delta Fiber Nederland and Vodafone Libertel. It also lists 290 cities across 14 regions, such as Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht.
IPv6 grew fast this year. APNIC Labs measured 52.9% of Dutch users as IPv6-capable in the 30 days to October 23, 2026. A year earlier the share was 35.7%, and in October 2020 26.8%.
How big are the Dutch pools sellers advertise?
Small next to the registry. We read five sellers' Netherlands pages through our server on October 26, 2026, and divided each number by the 47.9 million:
Bright Data names 449,000 proxy IPs in its page title and 112,250 Netherlands IPs lower down, a quarter as many. We charted the title.
Oxylabs puts its 1,873,324 on a page offering residential or datacenter proxies. DataImpulse's counters showed 6,387 unique Dutch IPs in 24 hours, 26,523 in 30 days and 3,155 active at once. Our Germany guide found the same picture next door, with no pool past 5.0%. We do not publish our own pool size per country.
What changes with a Dutch IP?
A Dutch IP makes sites treat you as a local visitor. Google's help page says "IP addresses are roughly based on geography" and that location "helps to show you nearby results". Pick Residential Lite to set the country at the lowest rate. Residential Premium fixes one city or one network by its AS number.
The type of your address stays visible to the sites you visit. MaxMind, a vendor of IP data, sells an Anonymous IP database with a flag for suspected residential proxies. Our guide to how websites detect proxies goes through the rest.
Why do free Dutch proxies fail?
Because they are mostly server addresses with a bad record. Since May 13, 2026, our tracker has seen 11,668 Dutch addresses on public free proxy lists, and 1,900 of them worked at some point. 34 worked on October 26, 23 of them on datacenter networks such as DigitalOcean, Scaleway and Akamai.
Every one of the 34 carried a reputation flag, and 32 had been reported for recent abuse. The live ones are on our free proxy list for the Netherlands, good enough for a quick test.
How do you pay from the Netherlands?
Cards and crypto both work. A Visa or Mastercard payment starts at $10 and a crypto payment at $3. Either one tops up a balance with no expiry date. There is no PayPal option. The payment options page has the full list, and our guide to buying proxies with crypto compares the fees per network.
How much traffic does a Dutch job use?
Think in pages: one GB holds around 380 full desktop page loads. That follows from HTTP Archive's 2024 Page Weight chapter, where the median desktop page weighed 2,652 KB and the median mobile page 2,311 KB. Scrapers that skip images use far less, so measure twenty pages of the site you target.
Which plan fits a Dutch job?
Most Dutch jobs run fine on Residential Lite with the Netherlands as the country: $0.50/GB for one GB, $0.44 per GB at volume. Leave the flagged free list to tests. Residential Premium brings the 290 cities, the 112 networks and sticky sessions of up to 24 hours. It costs $1.49/GB for one GB and $1.00 per GB at volume. Mobile proxies cover Dutch 4G and 5G carriers as well, and all tiers are on our residential proxies page.
What this page could not check
- Speed, success rate and block rate went untested, on every network including ours.
- Our exits' Dutch networks, and how many there are, stay unpublished.
- The RIPE NCC file counts addresses given out, which is neither the number in use nor the number of users.
- The company groups follow the names and maintainers in the records.
- Pool numbers are as each seller showed them on October 26, 2026, and we could not see what they count.
- Every number here gets checked again by January 26, 2027.
Sources
- RIPE NCC, delegated-ripencc-extended-latest, records to October 25, 2026, read October 26, 2026.
- RIPE NCC, RDAP records for the largest Dutch address blocks, read October 26, 2026.
- RIPEstat, prefix overview for every block of the eight largest Dutch records, read October 26, 2026.
- APNIC Labs, IPv6 use per economy, Netherlands, data to October 23, 2026.
- Google Search Help, "Understand and manage your location when you search on Google", read October 25, 2026.
- HTTP Archive, Web Almanac 2024, Page Weight chapter, December 30, 2024.
- MaxMind, GeoIP Anonymous IP database documentation, read October 25, 2026.
- Shifter, Oxylabs, Bright Data, SOAX and DataImpulse, Netherlands location pages, as shown on October 26, 2026.
- HProxy, residential pricing and payment options pages, read October 25, 2026, and Netherlands page, read October 26, 2026.
- HProxy, free proxy check for the Netherlands, October 26, 2026.
