BuyProxies is one of those names anyone who bought proxies on the old forums will recognize. It ran at buyproxies.org and sold private, dedicated datacenter proxies, the kind marketed as "virgin" IPs, fresh addresses that had not been used and abused by anyone else yet. For years it was a standard answer to "where do I get clean dedicated proxies."
So what happened to it? The honest answer is less dramatic than a shutdown, and we are not going to dress it up. The private-proxy shop era that BuyProxies belonged to faded. At our last automated check, in March 2026, the buyproxies.org homepage still loaded. We could not confirm it is actively run, and we could not confirm it is gone. What we can tell you is what it was, why its whole category lost the spotlight, and how to think about buying from a relic of that era. We run a residential proxy network, so watching these shops rise and go quiet is part of the job.
What BuyProxies was
BuyProxies sold datacenter proxies: IP addresses hosted in server farms rather than on home connections. Its pitch was "private" and "virgin." A private (or dedicated) proxy is one assigned to you alone, not shared with strangers. A virgin proxy is one that has not been used for the thing you are about to use it for, so it carries no baggage from a previous customer.
You bought a fixed set of these, usually priced around two dollars per IP per month in our competitor research, aimed at United States and European locations, and you got a plain list of IP and port pairs to load into your software. That was the whole product, and for a while it was exactly what most buyers wanted: cheap, fast, and yours alone.
Why the private-proxy shops faded
BuyProxies did not do anything wrong to end up quiet. Its entire category cooled off, for reasons that had nothing to do with any single shop.
The demand moved to residential and mobile IPs. The jobs people bought dedicated proxies for, managing social accounts, checking ads, buying limited releases, are exactly the jobs where a datacenter IP now gets flagged fastest, because platforms learned to read the network behind an address. A "virgin" datacenter IP is still a datacenter IP, and freshness does not change the network it announces. You can see why in how websites detect proxies.
The buying model moved too. Fixed lists of IPs sold by the month lost ground to pay-as-you-go bandwidth, where you hold a balance and spend it across a much larger pool. Once the big residential networks made that normal, a small shop selling a handful of static datacenter IPs by the month was selling to a shrinking room.
- Fast and cheapserver-grade bandwidth for a few dollars per IP
- Yours alonea private or 'virgin' IP nobody else was using
- Simplea fixed list of IP and port pairs, no metering
- Datacenter networkthe IP still announces a server farm, easy to flag
- A small, fixed poola handful of IPs to rotate, not thousands
- Inherited reputationa reused subnet others may have already burned
Is BuyProxies still around?
We will be straight about the limits of what we know. Our competitor research tracks buyproxies.org, and at the March 2026 sweep the homepage still returned a "Buy Proxies" title, so the domain was resolving. We do not have a reliable creation date for it in our records, and we have not seen a shutdown announcement.
"The site still loads" is not the same as "the business is healthy," and we are not going to tell you a company is dead when we cannot confirm it. What we can say is that BuyProxies belongs to a category that has gone quiet, and that a shop from that era deserves the same checks you would give any dormant-looking store before you hand it a payment.
How to buy from a relic without getting burned
If you are looking at BuyProxies, or any old proxy shop that may or may not still be tended, run the same quick checks:
- Reach support with a pre-sale question and see if a human answers in a reasonable time.
- Buy the smallest possible order first and confirm the checkout provisions something real before you scale up.
- Verify any IP you receive. Put it through our free proxy checker to see its true exit location, anonymity grade, and network before you rely on it.
- Match the proxy to the job. If you are managing social accounts or buying limited releases, a datacenter IP, virgin or not, is probably the wrong tool now.
Where an honest network fits now
BuyProxies is not a scandal, and we are not going to invent one. It looks like a legitimate datacenter proxy shop from an era that has largely passed, still reachable at last check but no longer the answer to most of the questions it used to answer. The takeaway is the plain one: a domain that loads is not proof of a business worth paying, and a datacenter IP is not the tool it was ten years ago.
If you just need to test tooling or run something low-stakes, our free proxy list is honest about being mostly short-lived datacenter IPs, re-checked continuously. When you need residential IPs that hold up on modern sites, we sell them at $0.65/GB pay as you go with no KYC and a balance that never expires, and we would rather compete on being able to tell you exactly what you are getting.
Sources
- HProxy competitor research and domain sweep (March 2026): buyproxies.org selling private and dedicated "virgin" datacenter proxies aimed at US and EU locations at roughly two dollars per IP per month, and still resolving with a "Buy Proxies" homepage at the last check. No reliable domain creation date is on file, and no shutdown was confirmed.
- HProxy guide, How websites detect proxies: why datacenter IPs, virgin or not, are flagged by the network they announce.