anonproxy.nu is gone in the most literal sense: the name itself no longer exists in the domain system. The last page anyone saved from it dates to March 2018.
The site it used to be
The Internet Archive's first working copy of anonproxy.nu is from June 2014 and it holds 10 days of captures in total.
Underneath it was PHProxy, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
A directory of free web proxies, workingproxysites.com, took the listing 12 years ago, and that listing counted 453 clicks through to it.
When it stopped
The last capture that returned a page at all is from 19 March 2018.
By 19 March 2018 the same address answered with something else: the capture from that day is titled "The domain name anonproxy.nu is for sale | Undeveloped".
What answers there now
We checked anonproxy.nu on 10 September 2026 from our own server. Nothing resolves. The lookup comes back empty, which means no server can even be reached, let alone a proxy.
The replacement
What this site did, a page you browse through, is worth less now than a list you can test. Our free proxy list carries a last-checked time on every entry and re-verifies every few minutes; the checker tests any single address you bring.
None of that makes free proxies reliable. They are shared, so targets have seen the address before, and they hold no session, which breaks logins.
What we could not establish
No public document explains the ending. We can date it and describe it; anything about motive would be invention, and this page prints none.
This is a single reading from a single vantage point. A proxy that turns away data centre addresses would give us the same silence as a proxy that no longer exists. We recheck by 1 January 2027.
Sources
- Internet Archive, capture index for anonproxy.nu, first capture 2 June 2014, most recent capture 19 March 2018. Read 2026-09-10.
- workingproxysites.com listing for anonproxy.nu, https://workingproxysites.com/recent-proxies.php?start=540, captured 10 September 2026.
- Our own status check of anonproxy.nu and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
