The short version: americanownow1.tk is off the internet. Not blocked, not slow, not moved. The name no longer resolves, and the newest working copy anyone kept is from November 2014.
What sat at this address
The Internet Archive's first working copy of americanownow1.tk is from November 2014 and it holds 5 days of captures in total.
The page called itself "Proxy For Freedom". Underneath it was PHProxy, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
The listing that carried it, on the free proxy directory workingproxysites.com, is 12 years old, and that listing counted 282 clicks through to it. Its entry gives the country as United States.
When it went quiet
The last capture that shows the proxy itself is from 15 November 2014 and the archive kept visiting until 4 January 2018.
The address is part of the reason. A .tk name was free, handed out by Freenom, and free is what most of these proxies were built on. Freenom stopped issuing new names in early 2023 after Meta sued it over domains used in phishing, and the names already out there stopped resolving over the following year. We checked the whole directory: 8,281 of its 8,948 sites used a .tk address and 8,275 of those are now gone.
What the name does today
We checked americanownow1.tk on 10 September 2026 from our own server. The lookup fails outright. Without an address there is nothing to connect to, whatever a directory still says about it.
What to use instead
Use a list somebody keeps checking rather than a name that used to work. Our free proxy list is re-verified every few minutes, and an address that stops answering leaves it instead of sitting there for years. If you already have an address, the proxy checker will tell you whether it still relays anything.
The limits of free are the same everywhere, ours included: the addresses are shared, so the sites that care have seen them before, and there is no session to hold, so logins break part way through.
Where the record runs out
There is no account of who ran it or why they stopped. Small sites like this one leave dates behind, not explanations, and we would rather say so than fill the gap.
Treat the check as one sample: taken on one day, from one network. Anything refusing data centre traffic looks identical to something switched off. Due for a recheck by 1 January 2027.
Sources
- Internet Archive, capture index for americanownow1.tk, first capture 15 November 2014, most recent capture 4 January 2018. Read 2026-09-10.
- workingproxysites.com listing for americanownow1.tk, https://workingproxysites.com/recent-proxies.php?start=360, captured 10 September 2026.
- Our own status check of americanownow1.tk and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
