The short version: best-proxies.com is off the internet. Not blocked, not slow, not moved. The name no longer resolves, and the newest working copy anyone kept is from June 2017.
What it was
The Internet Archive's first working copy of best-proxies.com is from March 2004 and it holds 52 days of captures in total.
Underneath it was PHProxy, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
It was listed on workingproxysites.com, a directory of free web proxies, 13 years ago, and that listing counted 352 clicks through to it. Its entry gives the country as United Kingdom.
The end of it
The last capture that returned a page at all is from 10 June 2017 and the archive kept visiting until 27 November 2021.
The address today
We checked best-proxies.com on 10 September 2026 from our own server. The name does not resolve: there is no address behind it, so nothing can be served from 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.
The limits of this record
The record shows when, not why. Nothing public says whether the operator lost interest, lost the hosting, or simply moved on, so this page does not guess.
One check, one day, one place: that is the honest weight of what we measured, since a site blocking data centre traffic reads exactly like a site that is gone. The next check is due by 1 January 2027.
Sources
- Internet Archive, capture index for best-proxies.com, first capture 22 March 2004, most recent capture 27 November 2021. Read 2026-09-10.
- workingproxysites.com listing for best-proxies.com, https://workingproxysites.com/recent-proxies.php?start=1035, captured 10 September 2026.
- Our own status check of best-proxies.com and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
