The useful thing to know about Cracked 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
Checked on 9 September 2026 over https, www and plain http, the domain returned nothing (EAI_AGAIN). No holding page, no error from a working server, simply no answer.
39 working snapshots exist, ending June 2025. Nothing usable was archived after that month.
What the last capture shows
The last working capture, from June 2025, is not a proxy site at all. The page reads "This Website Has Been Seized". Where a domain ends on a notice like that, the ending is on the public record in a way it almost never is in this market, and we are quoting the page rather than characterising what happened behind it.
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.
The domain, on paper
Public registry data puts the registration at 14 December 2014, through Immaterialism Limited. The name is roughly 11 years old. The registration lasts until 14 December 2026. Held, but unused. Registry query dated 9 September 2026.
Other names attached to this one
We also track the same brand at cracked.to. Where a shutdown leaves sibling domains behind, they are worth checking before assuming everything stopped. On the company itself we hold: Domain available to register.
The name still draws roughly 130 searches a month worldwide, measured 9 September 2026. That is the reason this page exists: the affiliate reviews recommending them are still live and still earning.
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.
The rest of the graveyard
The same treatment, applied to others that stopped answering:
- What happened to RusVPN
- What happened to Samair.ru
- What happened to School Proxy
- What happened to Sdgc
- What happened to Smoothproxy
- What happened to Snushah
The honest replacement
For anyone with an unused balance: check whether your payment still falls inside your card scheme's dispute window. Keep the receipts and any support thread. Once a provider stops answering, that is usually the only route left.
On picking the next one: the lesson of a page like this is not "choose a big provider", it is "do not prepay more than you would mind losing, and do not accept a balance that expires". We sell residential from $0.44 per GB with a balance that does not expire and no subscription, which is the shape that fails least badly when a provider does. Test it and anything else you shortlist on your own target before you move volume.
