Rayobyte is a trade name. The company that signs its contract is Blazing SEO, LLC, which Neil Emeigh formed in Colorado on 26 June 2015 and runs from Lincoln, Nebraska. It filed the name Rayobyte on 14 June 2022 and moved its website on 12 July 2022. The founder says it has never had an investor. Two related companies share its office suite, and a third shares their registered agent. Sprious LLC presented Blazing SEO as one of its companies. Emeigh Investments LLC holds the IPv4 blocks behind its datacenter proxies. Cash Raven, LLC runs the app network that Rayobyte calls its own residential network. The rest of this page is the record, oldest first. Prices and the alternatives are on our Rayobyte alternatives page.
Rayobyte at a glance
| what the records show | |
|---|---|
| trading as | rayobyte.com; blazingseollc.com forwards there since July 2022 |
| former name | Blazing SEO, from 2015 to July 2022 |
| company in the contract | Blazing SEO, LLC, "a Colorado limited liability company d/b/a Rayobyte" |
| formed | 26 June 2015 in Colorado, ID 20151420353, by Neil Emeigh |
| office | 233 S. 13th St, Suite 1100, Lincoln, Nebraska, since June 2023 |
| trade name | "Rayobyte", filed in Colorado on 14 June 2022 |
| people in charge | Neil Emeigh, founder and CEO; Ben Emeigh, VP of Operations; Max Gutchenko, VP of Technology (people page, October 2026) |
| owners on record | none published for Blazing SEO, LLC; Utah listed Neil Emeigh as a member of Sprious LLC from 2021 to 2023 |
| investors | none named; the founder says "entirely bootstrapped" (June 2024); no SEC filing since 2001 names Blazing SEO, Rayobyte or Sprious |
| related companies | Sprious LLC, Emeigh Investments LLC and Cash Raven, LLC in Nebraska; Scraping Robot, LLC in Delaware |
| own networks | AS397630 (Blazing SEO, 2019); AS64267 (2017) and AS54252 (2021), both Sprious |
| IPv4 held | 104,960 addresses, registered to Emeigh Investments LLC (ARIN, October 2026) |
| trademarks | RAYOBYTE (US 7452755) and its "R" logo (US 7452854); SCRAPING ROBOT (US 8120958) |
| staff | "40+ team members" in "18+ countries", by its own count of October 2026 |
| Trustpilot | 4.1 from 118 reviews, archived 31 January 2026 |
We read every record on 10 October 2026 from our server in St. Louis. That means the Colorado register and 15 of its filings, copies of the Nebraska, Delaware and Dutch registers, and the US trademark office. It also means ARIN's network records and transfer log, a federal loan file, the SEC's filing index, US court dockets, the Internet Archive, and the pages of Rayobyte, Sprious and Cash Raven.
The story, oldest first
A solid marker is a record we read in a register, an archive or a public database. A hollow one is the company's own word.
2015: a Colorado company, run from Nebraska
The Colorado register shows Blazing SEO, LLC formed on 26 June 2015 at 10:56 in the morning. Its articles name Neil Emeigh as "the person forming the limited liability company". A Denver law firm served as its first registered agent. The domain blazingseollc.com was registered the next day, and on 10 July 2015 the company registered in Nebraska as an out-of-state company.
The founder's own account starts small. Rayobyte's timeline says he began "running proxies for SEO from his basement and dorm room". In a letter of June 2024 he recalled his first goal: "one person paying me $2.50/mo for 5 semi-dedicated proxies". He gave the revenue as well: "$100k" in the first three months, "$1.1m" in year one and "$3m" in year two. These are his figures. The Colorado reports we read contain no financial data.
The first contract on record, archived on 1 September 2015, reads: "The Services are provided by Blazing SEO, LLC". It chose the laws of Colorado and the courts of Denver.
The early shop sold more than proxies. In April 2016 its menu listed "Blazing Proxies", "Blazing PBNs", two captcha-solving services, a "HUGE Account Store" and an "Archive.org Scraper". PBNs are private blog networks, a tactic for pushing pages up in search results. By July 2016 the homepage promised proxies on "over 500 subnets" and spoke of "over 1,000+ Customers".
2016 to 2018: a host called Sprious, and the first address blocks
Blazing SEO, LLC opened its own record at ARIN, the registry for North American internet addresses, on 7 April 2016. A second company appeared that year. The domain sprious.com was registered on 2 November 2016. In February 2017 it sold virtual and dedicated servers as "Sprious Server Hosting".
The contract moved to Nebraska that year. The version archived in June 2016 still chose Colorado law. By 6 November 2016 it named "Blazing SEO, LLC and its affiliates" and chose the laws of Nebraska, with arbitration there.
Sprious LLC opened its ARIN record on 7 March 2017. It received its own network number, AS64267, on 7 April 2017, and its first block of addresses by transfer three days later. ARIN's transfer log lists 21 blocks for Sprious by March 2018, 12,288 addresses in all.
On 2 April 2018 the log records a transfer of the type "merger or acquisition". It moved all of Sprious's blocks, and a large IPv6 block, to Emeigh Investments LLC. That company had opened its own ARIN record on 28 February 2018, and ARIN lists it at the same Lincoln address as Sprious. It went on to receive 50 more blocks by January 2021.
The sellers were old holders of address space: RadioShack, DuPont, Moen, Janus Capital, the American Mathematical Society and seven universities and colleges among them. In all, 71 transfers from 49 sellers brought in 104,448 addresses between April 2017 and January 2021. ARIN lists 104,960 addresses under Emeigh Investments today, all of type "Direct Allocation".
ARIN also shows where the proxies stood. Between May 2018 and January 2019, Blazing SEO, LLC opened six more ARIN records, for networks in India, Japan, Brazil, Germany, the United Kingdom and Australia. Its homepage claimed "10,000+ Customers" and four countries in August 2018. By January 2019 it listed seven.
Sprious's own blog dates the team. On 2 October 2018, it says, "our small team of 6" moved into a physical office for the first time, in downtown Lincoln.
2019 and 2020: one founder, several brands
By October 2019 Sprious no longer presented itself as a host. Its homepage that month read "The Leader In Technology and Data Intelligence". It listed "Our Companies": Scraping Robot, Inspired Data Intelligence, Sprious Labs and Blazing SEO. A year later the list added WP Super Host, a WordPress host. The Nebraska register copy records the trade name WP SUPER HOST for Sprious LLC from 17 January 2020.
Scraping Robot went live on 14 October 2019. Sprious announced it as "our newest product line", "backed by the support and infrastructure of Blazing SEO proxies and servers". It gave 5,000 free scrapes and charged $0.0018 a scrape after that.
The company also moved. Sprious says the team moved to the Haymarket area of Lincoln in mid-July 2019. On 29 July 2019 the Colorado register shows Blazing SEO's office at 440 N 8th St in Lincoln. Earlier that summer, on 10 June 2019, Blazing SEO, LLC had received its own network number, AS397630.
A Q&A on sprious.com, published on 29 May 2020, put the pieces in order. It called Neil Emeigh "the founder and CEO of Sprious, a tech startup company located in Lincoln, Nebraska". Blazing SEO and Scraping Robot were its "product lines", and WP Super Host its "newest product". He also described a setback of mid-2019, when a part of the business that "made up around 30-40% of our MRR" was "going to go down".
Rayobyte's blog carries the same interview today, under the same date. In that copy he is "the founder and CEO of Rayobyte", and Scraping Robot reads "Rayobyte's Web Scraping API".
The federal loan data adds one more number. The SBA's Paycheck Protection Program file lists a loan of $86,500 to Sprious, LLC of Lincoln, approved on 4 April 2020 for 10 reported jobs. It was forgiven on 30 June 2021. We found no loan under the Blazing SEO name, either among Nebraska borrowers or among loans of $150,000 or more.
2021: residential proxies and an app called Cash Raven
In 2021 Blazing SEO added residential proxies, which route traffic through home connections. A test page of May 2021 offered them "For As Low As $2/GB/month".
Its ethics page, published on 14 April 2021, named three sources. The first was its own kit for app makers: "We pay app developers to use our SDK", and app users got a "premium, ad-free application" in return. The second was marked "Coming Soon!": "an end user application that will pay users directly". The third was resale: "Currently, we are only sourcing from a vendor who pays their end users money in exchange for their bandwidth."
Two weeks later, on 28 April 2021, Cash Raven, LLC was organised in Nebraska. Its domain, cashraven.io, was registered on 18 May 2021. Its first site, published on 9 July 2021, carried the title "Earn Passive Income By Sharing Your Internet". It named no parent company.
The year left three smaller marks. Sprious LLC received a second network number, AS54252, on 13 April 2021. In Nebraska, Blazing SEO's first registration as an out-of-state firm lapsed, and a new one was issued on 17 August 2021. Utah's register, in OpenCorporates' copy, lists Neil Emeigh as a member of Sprious LLC from 30 July 2021 to 31 July 2023.
2022: Blazing SEO becomes Rayobyte
The new name was six months in the making. rayobyte.com was registered on 11 January 2022 and got its first certificate on 31 January. On 14 June 2022 Blazing SEO, LLC filed "Rayobyte" as a trade name in Colorado.
The switch came in mid-July. The archive's first copy of rayobyte.com dates from 12 July 2022, titled "Real People. Real Proxies. | Rayobyte (formerly Blazing SEO)". blazingseollc.com still answered on 7 July and forwarded to rayobyte.com from 14 July. The trademark application, filed on 20 July 2022, gives 12 July 2022 as the first use of the name. Our page on the end of Blazing SEO follows the old domain.
The homepage explained the name: "'Rayo' refers to the largest conceivable finite number. 'Byte' refers to a single unit of data storage." "Our new name reflects our sacred promise to all customers," it went on. The promise was as much data, bandwidth and IPs as a business needs.
Only the brand changed. The new contract, archived on 12 July 2022, names "Blazing SEO, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company d/b/a Rayobyte". Every version since says the same, and the legal name has not changed since 2015. The site footer reads "Rayobyte, LLC", a company we found in no register we searched.
In the first month under the new name, residential traffic cost $15 a GB in the smallest tier, for 1 to 15 GB. The published ladder fell to $3 a GB for 1 to 4.9 TB, and custom plans started "As low as" $1.
On 7 September 2022 Sprious joined an industry group. The Internet Infrastructure Coalition launched the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative, or EWDCI, that day. Its release named five founding members: "Coresignal, Oxylabs, Smartproxy, Sprious, and Zyte."
2023 and 2024: owned addresses, a trademark, a new focus
On 11 May 2023 the founder announced a migration. "Our low quality leased IPs cost us around 30% less than our high quality self-owned IPs," he wrote. Customers on leased addresses would move to owned ones from 22 May 2023, "since these IPs are solely owned by us".
In June 2023 the company reported a new office to Colorado: 233 S 13th St, Suite 1100, its address today. A hosting firm, ServerMania, published a case study by May 2023. It says: "Rayobyte uses ServerMania services to provide proxies to companies around the world."
A year later the founder wrote a second rebranding letter. Published on 5 June 2024, it said: "we've been entirely bootstrapped ever since. It was always important to me that I didn't have an investor". The company would stop tracking profit per customer and serve individuals and small firms first. The SEC's full-text search, which covers filings since 2001, finds no filing that names Blazing SEO, Rayobyte or Sprious.
The industry group interviewed the company that month. The EWDCI's Q&A of 24 June 2024 opened: "Founded in 2015 as Blazing SEO, Rayobyte is now the largest U.S.-based proxy provider." Its VP of Marketing, Isaac Coleman, said AI "hasn't really affected us yet".
The trademark office registered RAYOBYTE on 23 July 2024, with a logo of a map pin around the letter "r". Both belong to Blazing SEO, LLC. The name the company used for seven years never became its mark. The only BLAZING SEO application on file came from another applicant in 2012 and was abandoned in 2013.
2025: a lower price and a bigger pool
By April 2025 the smallest residential tier cost $3.50 a GB, now for 1 to 49 GB. In January 2025 the list price had been $7.50 a GB for 1 to 15 GB, with a sale price beside it.
The pool claim grew in the same months. In January 2025 the residential page offered "A Pool Of 25M+ IPs". Lower on the same page it spoke of "our network of a few million friends". By June 2025 it claimed "40M+ residential proxies".
In February 2025 Scraping Robot, LLC, a Delaware company at Rayobyte's suite, filed the SCRAPING ROBOT trademark. It was registered on 27 January 2026. The site scrapingrobot.com is still online.
Rayobyte marked ten years with a post of 19 November 2025. "Shifting to residential was a turning point," it said. It quoted Ben Emeigh, VP of Operations: "Growing residential pools while maintaining strict opt-in sourcing has always been a challenge."
October 2026: priced for the AI era
In July 2026 the homepage still spoke of "the largest US-based proxy network in the world". It listed "40M+ Residential IPs", "400K+ Static IPs" and "50+ Full-Time Staff". On 24 September 2026 the changelog announced "Scale Residential Proxies from $0.0095/GB". On 1 October it said: "The new rayobyte.com is live."
The new site calls Rayobyte "the proxy and scraping network priced for the AI era". A thesis page signed by the founder adds: "We own our residential network, and heavy compute runs on bare-metal servers we own and operate." The about page now counts "50M+ devices every month", "5,000+ active customers" and "40+ team members".
The sourcing page changed with it. The archived ethics page of 26 August 2026 still listed resale: "Currently, we are only sourcing from vendors who compensate their end users in exchange for their bandwidth." The relaunched page reads: "We own our residential network, Cash Raven." It no longer mentions resale.
Cash Raven now says it plainly: "Cash Raven is Rayobyte, in business since 2015." Its site offers app makers up to $0.50 per user a month and shows "100,000+ Devices Online Now". The Cash Raven app on Google Play, published by CASH RAVEN, LLC, shows 100,000 or more downloads.
Where its addresses come from today
The datacenter side rests on the blocks above. ARIN registers 242 networks to Blazing SEO, LLC under its seven records, and all of them lie inside the blocks of Emeigh Investments LLC. So do 99 of the 103 networks of Sprious LLC.
We checked what the three networks announce to the rest of the internet. Between 26 September and 10 October 2026 they announced 165,888 IPv4 addresses. About half of that space, 81,920 addresses, lies inside the Emeigh Investments blocks. The other half is registered under 141 other network names at the American, European and African registries. AS54252 announced no addresses from the owned blocks at all.
The residential side rests on Cash Raven. Rayobyte says every device "belongs to a person who installed an app built with the Cash Raven SDK, or the Cash Raven app itself". People who run the Cash Raven app earn credits. People who share through a partner app "are not paid in cash: they get the app free, or without ads".
Who Rayobyte is connected to
| connection | what the record shows, and what it does not |
|---|---|
| Blazing SEO, LLC | the company in the contract since 2015; Colorado ID 20151420353, in good standing; owner of the RAYOBYTE marks; an ARIN record since 2016 and network AS397630 (Colorado register, the contract, USPTO, ARIN). Not shown: who its members are |
| Sprious LLC | a Nebraska company registered at the same suite; listed Blazing SEO among "Our Companies" from 2019; called Neil Emeigh its founder and CEO in 2020; Neil Emeigh a member in its Utah registration from 2021 to 2023; ARIN record since 2017, networks AS64267 and AS54252; the 2020 loan for 10 jobs; EWDCI founding member (Nebraska and Utah register copies, archived sprious.com, ARIN, SBA, i2Coalition). Not shown: who owns which; no register shows ownership between Sprious and Blazing SEO |
| Emeigh Investments LLC | holds 104,960 IPv4 addresses as direct allocations; every Blazing SEO network sits inside its blocks; took over Sprious's blocks on 2 April 2018; its head office is Rayobyte's suite (ARIN records and transfer log, Nebraska register copy). Not shown: who owns it, and why the addresses sit in a separate company |
| Cash Raven, LLC | Nebraska, organised 28 April 2021; runs cashraven.io and the app; calls itself "a Rayobyte company"; same registered agent as Sprious LLC (Nebraska register copy, Cash Raven's terms, Google Play). Not shown: how many devices share at one time beyond its own "100,000+" |
| Scraping Robot, LLC | a Delaware company that owns the SCRAPING ROBOT mark, at Rayobyte's suite; launched as a Sprious product in 2019 (USPTO, Delaware register copy, archived sprious.com). Not shown: its members |
| Sprious Netherlands B.V. | an Amsterdam company (Dutch register copy). Not shown: what it does |
| the EWDCI | Sprious a founding member in 2022; Rayobyte's accreditation "Active" in 2026 (i2Coalition release, EWDCI page). Not shown: anything about ownership |
| ServerMania | Rayobyte uses its servers to provide proxies (ServerMania's case study, archived May 2023). Not shown: the size or the terms |
| ScraperAPI | quoted on Rayobyte's pages: Rayobyte "became our largest provider"; listed in saas.group's portfolio (Rayobyte's pages, saas.group's portfolio). Not shown: any ownership link |
| shared name servers | rayobyte.com, blazingseollc.com, blazingseo.com, sprious.com and cashraven.io use one Cloudflare name-server pair (domain registry records). Not shown: anything on its own, so this is weak evidence |
Several of these companies share one office suite and one law firm as registered agent, and the founder has been named as the head of two of them. The brand on the website, the company in the contract, the holder of the addresses and the residential network each carry a different name. Our page on who owns your proxy provider maps other groups the same way.
In court and in filings
Neither Rayobyte nor Blazing SEO is a party to any US case we found on CourtListener. Sprious appears once, as a third party.
Amazon sued sellers of fake beauty products in the Western District of Washington in August 2020. The case is Amazon.com Inc. v. Sirowl Technology, number 2:20-cv-01217. On 16 April 2021 the court let Amazon subpoena four internet providers. Amazon had stated that logins to the sellers' payment account were "hosted by the following United States-based ISPs: Sprious LLC, Cogent Communications, Alibaba Group (U.S.) Inc., and Linode LLC". The subpoenas were limited to the sellers' identities and locations.
The court entered a default judgment against the sellers on 3 October 2022. Sprious was not a party, and no filing we read accuses it of anything.
What Rayobyte sells today, in short
Rayobyte sells residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile proxies, a Scraping API, and rayobrowse, a browser for scrapers. On 10 October 2026 Premium Residential cost $3.50 a GB for 1 to 49 GB, falling to $0.70 at 1,000 GB. Scale Residential started at $100 a month for 6,600 GB. It fell to $0.0095 a GB on the $5,000 plan, with no targeting.
The fine print matters at both ends. Scale is sold only to verified businesses after a compliance review. It allows one concurrent request per dollar of plan, and it may not be resold. Mobile plans start at $250 a month for 83 GB, and the traffic expires after 30 days. A residential trial gives 50 MB, and unusual use triggers an ID check through Sumsub.
The terms choose Nebraska law and arbitration, and they waive class actions. They also let the company charge "$100.00 for every cease and desist letter" that a customer's misuse causes. The full price tables and the alternatives are on our Rayobyte alternatives page, and our HProxy and Rayobyte comparison sets the two side by side.
What customers report over time
| archived | profile | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 2021 | blazingseollc.com | 3.5 from 9 reviews |
| August 2024 | rayobyte.com | 4.4 from 51 reviews |
| March 2025 | rayobyte.com | 4.0 from 87 reviews |
| December 2025 | blazingseollc.com | 1.8 from 32 reviews |
| January 2026 | rayobyte.com | 4.1 from 118 reviews |
The rayobyte.com profile slipped from 4.4 to 4.1 while its reviews more than doubled. The old blazingseollc.com profile still collects reviews of its own: it stood at 1.8 from 32 in December 2025.
Is Rayobyte legit?
The records describe an established business. Blazing SEO, LLC has existed since June 2015, filed a Colorado report in every year from 2016 to 2026, and is in good standing. It owns its brand at the US trademark office. Its network has had its own ARIN records since 2016, and a related company holds 104,960 IPv4 addresses. The EWDCI lists its accreditation as active.
Three things are not on the record. One is who owns the companies. Another is what "Rayobyte, LLC" in the footer refers to. The third is which vendors supplied its resold traffic.
If you are looking elsewhere
- If you need city or ISP targeting at small volume, Rayobyte's Premium tier cost $3.50 a GB up to 49 GB on 10 October 2026. HProxy's Premium pool costs $1.49/GB for one gigabyte, with state, city and ISP targeting.
- If you buy residential traffic by the hundred terabytes and need no targeting, Rayobyte is the stronger offer: Scale's $0.0095 a GB is far below our lowest residential rate, $0.44 a GB.
- If you want to leave the Rayobyte family, note that Scraping Robot and the Cash Raven app belong to it too, and blazingseollc.com forwards to it.
- If you already hold proxies from several sellers, our free proxy checker shows which of them answer, without an account.
What we could not find out
- Who owns Blazing SEO, LLC and its sister companies today. Colorado and Nebraska publish no member lists. The only member on record is Neil Emeigh in Sprious LLC's Utah registration, which ended in 2023.
- Whether there was ever an outside investor. The founder says no, and no SEC filing names the companies. Some private investments need no filing, so only the companies' own records would settle it.
- What "Rayobyte, LLC" refers to. No register we read holds a company of that name, while the contract names Blazing SEO, LLC.
- Which vendors supplied resold residential traffic from 2021 to at least August 2026, and whether any still do.
- How the device counts relate. Cash Raven shows "100,000+ Devices Online Now"; Rayobyte counts "50M+ devices every month".
- What Sprious Netherlands B.V. does. Only a summary of the Dutch register was readable.
Nothing on this page comes from a purchase: we read records and bought no Rayobyte proxy. Prices, claims and staff numbers change fast, so we will read these records again by 10 January 2027.
Sources
- Colorado Secretary of State: Blazing SEO, LLC (20151420353), company record, filing history and 15 filed documents including the articles of 26 June 2015; trade name Rayobyte (20221585049); open data sets 4ykn-tg5h and u7sb-g482. Read 10 October 2026.
- OpenCorporates copies of the Nebraska, Utah, Delaware and Dutch registers: Sprious LLC, Sprious Netherlands B.V., Emeigh Investments LLC, Emeigh Holdings, LLC, Cash Raven, LLC, Scraping Robot, LLC and Blazing SEO, LLC; its officer search for the Emeigh name. Read 10 October 2026.
- US Securities and Exchange Commission: EDGAR full-text search of filings from 2001 to 10 October 2026, for Blazing SEO, Rayobyte, Sprious, Emeigh Investments, Emeigh Holdings, Cash Raven, Scraping Robot and Neil Emeigh. Read 10 October 2026.
- US Patent and Trademark Office: RAYOBYTE (97511397), the "R" logo (97604111), SCRAPING ROBOT (99045745) and BLAZING SEO (85751157). Read 10 October 2026.
- American Registry for Internet Numbers: organisations BSL-159 and six more Blazing SEO records, SL-1146 and EIL-79, their networks and AS numbers, and the IPv4 transfer log. RIPEstat announced-prefix and whois data. Read and measured 10 October 2026.
- US Small Business Administration: Paycheck Protection Program data, files of 30 September 2024. Read 10 October 2026.
- US District Court, Western District of Washington: Amazon.com Inc. v. Sirowl Technology, 2:20-cv-01217, order of 16 April 2021 and the docket, through CourtListener. Read 10 October 2026.
- Internet Infrastructure Coalition: the EWDCI launch release of 7 September 2022. EWDCI: Member Spotlight Q&A with Rayobyte of 24 June 2024, and the accreditation page. Read 10 October 2026.
- Rayobyte: terms of service, privacy policy, about, people, thesis, changelog, pricing, ethics, KYC and developer kit pages, and the posts of 11 May 2023, 5 June 2024 and 19 November 2025. Read 10 October 2026.
- Rayobyte, Blazing SEO, Sprious and Cash Raven, as archived by the Internet Archive from 2015 to 2026: homepages, about pages, terms, ethics pages, residential and mobile pages, the Sprious posts of 2019 and 2020, and the Trustpilot pages of rayobyte.com and blazingseollc.com. Read 10 October 2026.
- Cash Raven: homepage, terms of use and ethics page; the Cash Raven listing on Google Play. Read 10 October 2026.
- ServerMania: case study "About Rayobyte", first archived 19 May 2023. saas.group: brand portfolio page and the podcast page of 22 November 2023. Read 10 October 2026.
- Verisign and Identity Digital domain records, and the certificate logs (crt.sh), for the family's domains. Read 10 October 2026.
