There is nothing left at desktops.tk. The domain no longer resolves at all, and the archive's last working copy of the site is from May 2013.
What it was
The Internet Archive's first working copy of desktops.tk is from August 2004 and it holds 12 days of captures in total.
The page called itself "Account Active!". The directory recorded it as a Glype install, which is what nearly all of these sites were.
It was listed on workingproxysites.com, a directory of free web proxies, 11 years ago, and that listing counted 385 clicks through to it.
When it stopped
The last capture that shows the proxy itself is from 30 May 2013 and the archive kept visiting until 1 October 2016.
What the name does today
We checked desktops.tk 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.
Where to go from here
A list with a visible last-checked time beats a remembered domain. Ours re-verifies every few minutes; the checker tests a single address if you would rather bring your own.
Expect what free has always meant: shared addresses that targets recognise, and no session persistence, which breaks anything behind a login.
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 desktops.tk, first capture 10 August 2004, most recent capture 1 October 2016. Read 2026-09-10.
- Our own status check of desktops.tk and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
