FOGLDN.com alternatives: the sneaker proxy shop that became a free proxy tester (2026)

FOGLDN (fogldn.com) was a sneaker business. From 2017 it sold residential proxies by the month, a bot, a monitor group for shoe releases and a free proxy tester. FOGLDN LTD, the company behind it, has been in creditors' voluntary liquidation since April 24, 2023. Its proxy shop was last archived in January 2022. Since March 2023, fogldn.com has offered one thing, the free FOGLDN Proxy Tester, with banners that send visitors to Ping Proxies, now called Byteful. People still search for it: the brand name draws 390 searches a month, and "fogldn proxy tester" 210. Below, what FOGLDN sold, how it ended, and what to use instead.

What FOGLDN sold, 2017 to 2022

The oldest copies in the Internet Archive, from September 2017, show a company that made tools for buying limited sneakers. Its menu read "A Bot By FOGLDN" and "A Monitor Group by FOGLDN". Every page closed with the line "Handcrafted by FOGLDN LTD." The bot's manual explained its "built in proxy tester". A copy of 2019 lists what the monitor group, called Acquisition, watched: Supreme, Adidas, Shopify stores and JD, Size? and Footpatrol. Its members got "Discounted FOGLDN residential proxies".

The proxies came as a monthly subscription, from 2 GB to 50 GB. The proxy page of 2018 set strict rules. Unused data did not carry over ("Any unused data is discard when your plan renews"). FOGLDN would also "not refund any purchases for any reasons unless we do not deliver the item on time". From 2018 the site carried password-protected proxy pages for other sneaker groups and bot makers. Among them were Shoeplex, K9 Bots, Kickstagram, PrismAIO and Laced Network.

The free tester followed in March 2018. Its page promised "direct and accurate ping times to any website in the world, through any type of proxy", for unlimited proxies at once. Its feature list named sticky and rotating proxies, and proxies bound to an IP address or to a username and password. It also promised an export of the working ones "to a txt file". Two years later the homepage called it "The Standard for proxy testing. Completely free."

By August 2020 the homepage carried the tag "#nevernotwoke" and the line "Residential Proxies. Residential Success." The residential plans cost £13 a GB each month, from £26 for 2 GB to £91 for 7 GB. The page promised "Real world IP connections, never displayed as a proxy". One testimonial on the proxy page came from a reseller who credited FOGLDN with "literal thousands of pairs of shoes".

How the shop ended

The archive's copies of the homepage from August 2020, January 2021 and January 2022 show the same plans and the same text. In July 2022 the address showed a hosting company's notice, "Website Temporarily Unavailable". The next copy, of March 2023, is a different site with a single product, the tester, under "© 2023 FOGLDN".

The register tells the company's side. FOGLDN LTD was incorporated on June 28, 2017, with the business code for "Other business support service activities". Its last accounts were made up to June 30, 2021, and its last confirmation statement is dated June 24, 2022. Both later filings are marked overdue. Its winding up as a creditors' voluntary liquidation began on April 24, 2023. The liquidators' latest yearly statement, covering the year to April 23, 2026, was filed on June 29, 2026. A creditors' voluntary liquidation is one that the company's own shareholders start because it cannot pay its debts.

In 2019 the site's about page said FOGLDN LTD was "created to be there for the sneaker community", founded in 2017. The domain itself is a year older, registered on July 2, 2016. Its record was last changed on June 2, 2026, and it now sits with Cloudflare's registrar.

fogldn.com today

On October 23, 2026, the pages we read still offered the "FOGLDN Proxy Tester", "Version 1.0", for Windows and macOS. When we read them on October 14, the download sat behind a form. Its text said that by downloading, "you agree to our mailing permission and to be featured in our Used By company section if selected". The footer read "© 2025 FOGLDN".

The top of each of those pages carries an advert for another company: "Check out the new Ping Proxies online multi-region proxy tester". Its links carry the tags "utm_source=fogldnbanner" and lead to pingproxies.com, which now forwards to byteful.com, Ping Proxies' new name. Byteful is run by Ping Technology Labs LTD in Manchester, as our Byteful page records. The register lists no officer of FOGLDN LTD among that company's officers. The banners show advertising on the site, and no record we read shows who placed them or why.

What to use instead

A desktop tester. Our free HProxy app checks a proxy list from your own connection. It can also connect your computer through any proxy, and it shows the fraud score of the exit. It runs on Windows 10 and 11, macOS and Linux, and asks for no account and no e-mail address.

A tester in the browser. Byteful's tester, the one fogldn.com advertises, says its "global infrastructure spans the United States, Europe, and Asia", and it tests against Google by default. Our online checker tests proxies in the browser, with no download.

Residential proxies. FOGLDN's £13 a GB of 2020 was a monthly plan whose unused data expired. Byteful charged $3.25 a GB, down to $1.75 at volume, when we read it on September 27, 2026. Its pricing FAQ answers "No, we do not currently offer a free trial", while its site menu shows a "Residential Free Trial".

Where HProxy fits

We sell residential traffic too, $0.50 per GB, from a balance that never expires, so a quiet month costs nothing. That suits the stop-and-start pattern of release days better than a plan whose data lapses each month. Before you buy from anyone, run a few of their proxies through the free app above.

What we could not find out

We do not know why FOGLDN LTD went into liquidation, or what its creditors are owed. The liquidators' statements are filed as documents we did not buy or read. We do not know who runs fogldn.com today, who placed the Ping Proxies banners, or whether the domain was sold. Nothing we read says where FOGLDN's residential proxies came from. We did not download the tester or test any proxy. We will look at the register again by January 14, 2027.

Sources

• fogldn.com: its homepage, tester and Windows pages, robots file and sitemap, read from our server on October 14, 2026.
• The Internet Archive's copies of fogldn.com: the bot manual and proxy pages of 2017 and 2018, the tester page of March 2018, the monitor group page of April 2019, the about page and terms of 2019, the homepages of 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025, and the hosting notice of July 2022.
• Companies House: FOGLDN LTD (10839930), overview, filing history and insolvency pages, and the officers of FOGLDN LTD and of Ping Technology Labs LTD (12699144), read October 14, 2026.
• Verisign's registry record of fogldn.com, October 14, 2026.
• Byteful's proxy tester and pricing pages, read from our server on October 14, 2026; its prices from our Byteful page, read on September 27, 2026.
• Google Keyword Planner, worldwide: monthly searches for fogldn and fogldn proxy tester, read October 14, 2026.