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spys.one is up, but it refused us. On 16 September 2026 it answered HTTP 403 to a datacenter connection in Germany, showing "Just a moment...".

HProxy Team··Updated September 17, 2026·2 min read
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spys.one is up, but it refused us. On 16 September 2026 it answered HTTP 403 to a datacenter connection in Germany, showing "Just a moment...". A list you cannot fetch from a server is not much use for automation, which is the main reason people look these up.

What it was

Spys.one publishes other people's proxy addresses as a list of IP and port pairs. It is run independently, not by a proxy seller.

Ranks #4 for "free proxy list" (DE results). Deep per-country and per-port pages.

The record, with dates

The Internet Archive first captured spys.one on 8 September 2017 and last captured it on 11 September 2026, 9 years apart, 6000 captures in all, the most of them in 2019. Read on 17 September 2026.

The registry record for spys.one says the name was registered on 3 May 2017, its term runs to 3 May 2027, the registrar of record is PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com. Read on 17 September 2026.

What we checked, and how

We asked spys.one ourselves on 16 September 2026, from a datacenter connection in Germany, following redirects by hand so the chain is on the record. What came back: HTTP 403 (HTTP 403). We did not read the site from a home connection and we did not save its pages; the result above is the whole of what we took.

What to use instead

A free list is a list of other people's machines, and it behaves like one: the addresses that answer at breakfast are gone by lunch, the country label is often wrong, and anything you send through one is readable by whoever runs the exit. That is true of every name on this page, alive or gone.

If you are testing whether a target blocks proxies at all, a free list is fine and costs nothing. If the job has to finish, has to come from a country you chose, or carries a login, it needs addresses somebody is accountable for. What we sell starts at $0.44 per GB, pay as you go, with no plan to reach first.

Our own maintained lists are here, and the wider picture of which of these sites still work is in our census of free proxy sites.

The limits of this record

  • We checked once, on one day, from one place.
  • A 403 to us is not a 403 to everyone; the site may serve a browser from a home connection perfectly well.
  • We do not know who runs it, where the addresses come from, or whether anyone tests them before publishing. Nobody in this corner of the market publishes that.

This page is due for a re-check by 16 March 2027, or sooner if the status above changes.

Sources

  • HProxy, our own status check of spys.one, 16 September 2026, from a datacenter connection in Germany.
  • Internet Archive, capture index for spys.one. Read 17 September 2026.
  • Registry record (RDAP) for spys.one. Read 17 September 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Is Spys.one still working?
spys.one is up, but it refused us. On 16 September 2026 it answered HTTP 403 to a datacenter connection in Germany, showing "Just a moment...". A list you cannot fetch from a server is not much use for automation, which is the main reason people look these up.
Are free proxy lists safe to use?
Treat every address on one as a machine you do not control. Whoever runs the exit can read unencrypted traffic and see every destination you request, so nothing carrying a login, a payment or personal data belongs on a free proxy. For a throwaway check against a public page, the risk is your time.
Why do free proxy addresses stop working so fast?
Because most of them were never meant to be public. A free list is largely misconfigured servers and short-lived hosts, so the same address that answers in the morning is gone by the afternoon. Any list, however well maintained, is a snapshot of a population that turns over constantly.

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