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What happened to Dostunnel, and what to use instead

Looking for Dostunnel? It no longer answers. Here is the dated evidence, stated only as far as it goes, and the honest replacement.

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This is an obituary written from public records rather than gossip. Dostunnel has stopped answering, and the registration and archive trail is the only honest account of it available.

When the lights went out

We tried three routes to it on 9 September 2026 and all three failed (ENOTFOUND). Nothing is listening.

35 working snapshots exist, ending October 2020. Nothing usable was archived after that month.

What the last capture shows

Archived October 2020, the page called itself "DosTunnel.com: Free web-based anonymous proxy service!". Above the fold it said "DosTunnel.com". Its search snippet read: "DosTunnel.com is a free web-based anonymous proxy service, which allows anyone to surf the web with privacy and security. There is no software to install, and it is completely free! By using 24PROXY, you can surf websites but hackers or website owners cannot identify or track you. The service hides your IP address, and"

Read it as the pitch rather than the product. Its value is that the Internet Archive holds it independently of us and of them, so anyone can check the quotation.

What they sold

The archive first captured a working page in July 2013.

The public record holds that much. It shows a company that was real and shipping, and nothing about how well.

We stop short of a cause deliberately. The registration and archive trail shows when things stopped and nothing about why, and the difference between those two claims is the difference between a fact and a defamation.

Other providers that went quiet

More providers that are no longer there, with dates rather than rumours:

Where former customers end up

Frequently asked questions

Is Dostunnel really gone?
We re-checked the domain on 9 September 2026 over https, www and plain http. Nothing answered on any of them. That is evidence of a shutdown rather than proof of one, and it is the strongest evidence the public web offers.
What happened to Dostunnel?
We do not know, and we will not guess in public. The record shows when the site stopped being captured and that it no longer answers. It says nothing about the reason, and every confident explanation of a small provider's shutdown that we have read traces back to a forum rumour.
What should I use instead of Dostunnel?
A list that is re-checked rather than a name someone remembers. Our free proxy list is re-verified every few minutes, so an address that stops answering drops off it instead of sitting there for years. Free proxies stay shared and short-lived, so anything that needs a login will still break.

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