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What happened to Amethyst, and what to use instead

Looking for Amethyst? It no longer answers. Here is the dated evidence, stated only as far as it goes, and the honest replacement.

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The useful thing to know about Amethyst is not why it ended, which nobody outside the company can honestly tell you, but when it stopped and what you should do about the money or the traffic you had with it.

The date it stopped

The domain is dark as of 9 September 2026 (ENOTFOUND). Neither the apex nor the www host returns anything.

The last working page the archive caught was in September 2019, out of 15 good snapshots. Coverage is not continuous, so read it as roughly when.

What the last capture shows

The last capture, September 2019, shows a holding page titled "amethyst.site -&nbspThis website is for sale! -&nbspamethyst Resources and Information.". The banner line read "").f(b.get(["domainName"],!1),b,"h").w("". The description it gave search engines said: "This website is for sale! amethyst.site is your first and best source for all of the information you’re looking for. From general topics to more of what you would expect to find here, amethyst.site has it all. We hope you find what you are searching for!"

Preserved copy has one advantage over a live page: it cannot be edited after the fact. What it shows is the promise, not the product.

What it looked like while it traded

The archive first captured a working page in February 2018.

None of it is a verdict on quality. It is the shape of a business that existed, which is worth establishing before anything else, because this market also contains names that never traded at all.

Search demand has not caught up with the shutdown. About 5,760 searches a month still carry the name, read 9 September 2026.

The honest limit here: we can show you the ending and not the reason for it. Anyone publishing a confident explanation of a small provider's shutdown is usually repeating a forum rumour, and we would rather leave the gap visible.

Others that stopped

Others in this market that ended, checked the same way:

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Frequently asked questions

Is Amethyst really gone?
We re-checked the domain on 9 September 2026 over https, www and plain http. Nothing answered on any of them. That is evidence of a shutdown rather than proof of one, and it is the strongest evidence the public web offers.
What happened to Amethyst?
We do not know, and we will not guess in public. The record shows when the site stopped being captured and that it no longer answers. It says nothing about the reason, and every confident explanation of a small provider's shutdown that we have read traces back to a forum rumour.
What should I use instead of Amethyst?
A list that is re-checked rather than a name someone remembers. Our free proxy list is re-verified every few minutes, so an address that stops answering drops off it instead of sitting there for years. Free proxies stay shared and short-lived, so anything that needs a login will still break.

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