chat-proxy.com does not answer. The name still resolves, but nothing responded to our request, and the archive's last working copy is from July 2013.
What it was
The Internet Archive's first working copy of chat-proxy.com is from July 2013 and it holds 10 days of captures in total.
The page called itself "Chat-Proxy.Com // Free Proxy For You". Underneath it was PHProxy, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
You can unblock popular social networking sites such as myspace, bebo, facebook and many other sites.
That is the site's own description, from the capture of 9 July 2013.
It was listed on workingproxysites.com, a directory of free web proxies, 13 years ago, and that listing counted 368 clicks through to it. The directory recorded it as United States.
When it stopped
The last capture that shows the proxy itself is from 9 July 2013 and the archive kept visiting until 1 August 2015.
What the name does today
We checked chat-proxy.com on 10 September 2026 from our own server in Germany. It answers, and the page is titled "凌动技术 - 生活就像愤怒的小鸟，失败后总有几只猪在笑。".
The registry record shows the name was registered again on 16 April 2025 and is paid until 16 April 2028 through Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn). Its name servers are ns7.alidns.com and ns8.alidns.com. Whoever holds it now took it after the proxy had already stopped.
People still look for it: 20 searches a month for the name, according to Google's Keyword Planner read on 10 September 2026.
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.
What this page cannot tell you
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.
Our status check is one day from one vantage point, and a site that refuses requests from data centres would look the same as one that is switched off. We will check this page again by 1 January 2027.
Sources
- Internet Archive, capture index for chat-proxy.com, first capture 9 July 2013, most recent capture 1 August 2015. Read 2026-09-10.
- Internet Archive, capture of chat-proxy.com dated 9 July 2013, quoted above. Read 2026-09-10.
- Registry record (RDAP) for chat-proxy.com, registrar Alibaba Cloud Computing Ltd. d/b/a HiChina (www.net.cn). Read 2026-09-10.
- Our own status check of chat-proxy.com and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
- Google Ads Keyword Planner, worldwide monthly searches for the name. Read 10 September 2026.
