proxy sourcing

Our engine has verified 580,000 free proxies 110 million times across 110 source lists. Most never worked, the best source has a 40% hit rate, the worst 0.19%.

HProxy vs Shifter on price, model and sourcing history. Shifter sells monthly plans with no pay as you go, and its advertised ISP rate exists on no published tier.

Residential proxies are resold consumer bandwidth. We checked what the apps buying that bandwidth pay per GB, against what providers charge for it.

The English 'best Chinese proxy' roundups name only Western brands and zero real Chinese operators. Here is who actually runs China's proxy industry.

DePIN proxy tokens like Grass and Nodepay are residential proxy networks with a crypto wrapper. The real funding, the token crashes, and what you actually sell.

How to tell if your proxy provider just resells a bigger pool: shared gateways, identical pool sizes, WHOIS and ASN overlap, and rebrand chains.

Google's 2026 takedown named 13 proxy brands under IPIDEA: 922Proxy, PIA S5, IP2World and more, built on hijacked home devices. What it means for buyers.

IPIDEA runs IP2World, PIA S5 Proxy and a dozen storefronts on one pool through Hong Kong shells. Here is the shared infrastructure and how it was built.

Researchers tied two dozen 'independent' mobile proxy brands to one Belarusian software stack, ProxySmart. Here is the map and what it means when you buy.

Thordata claims a 2018 founding, but its Hong Kong company dates to 2023 and its own US trademark claims first use in 2025. Here is the sourced timeline.

GeoSurf was one of the oldest enterprise residential proxy networks. It lost a patent war to Bright Data and shut down all proxy services on December 20, 2023.

LuxSocks was a Russian SOCKS5 proxy market prized by carders. It went dark in January 2022 in a reported Russian takedown. The story and the buyer lesson.

ProxyBonanza is a 2010s datacenter proxy veteran still trading today, but its UK company dissolved in 2013 and its tooling froze in 2019. Verify before you trust it.

RSOCKS sold millions of hacked IoT devices as proxies until the FBI and DOJ seized it in June 2022. How it worked, who ran it, and what replaced it.

VIP72 sold access to malware-infected PCs as SOCKS proxies for 15 years, then vanished in 2021. Who ran it, how it worked, and the sourcing lesson.

Shifter.io used to be Microleaves, a proxy service Kaspersky flagged as a trojan and that leaked its own users in 2022. Here is the sourced history and why a rebrand does not reset a network's origins.

911 S5 was called the largest botnet ever: 19 million hijacked IPs sold as residential proxies via fake free VPNs. How it worked, how the FBI took it down, and the sourcing lesson.

The NetNut botnet takedown explained: how the FBI seized NetNut after Krebs tied it to Popa, a 2M-device proxy botnet, and why proxy sourcing decides all.