firewall.netxess.com still loads, and that is the confusing part. What answers today is a holding page, not the proxy.
The site it used to be
Almost nothing survives of firewall.netxess.com. The Internet Archive never kept a working page from it, which is common for a site that ran for a season on a free address.
It ran on Glype, the script behind most free web proxies of that era.
A directory of free web proxies, workingproxysites.com, took the listing 12 years ago, and the directory counted 186 clicks on it. The listing places it in United States.
What answers there now
We checked firewall.netxess.com on 10 September 2026 from our own server in Germany. It answers with parked.
The registry has no record of the name any more, which means the registration itself lapsed rather than the site simply going quiet.
What still works
The replacement for a dead web proxy is not another name to remember. Our free proxy list shows when each entry was last checked and re-verifies every few minutes, and the checker tests an address you bring yourself.
Free proxies stay shared and short lived. For opening a blocked page that is usually enough, and for anything that has to work at a particular moment it is not.
What we could not establish
No public document explains the ending. We can date it and describe it; anything about motive would be invention, and this page prints none.
This is a single reading from a single vantage point. A proxy that turns away data centre addresses would give us the same silence as a proxy that no longer exists. We recheck by 1 January 2027.
Sources
- Internet Archive, capture index for firewall.netxess.com: no working copy held. Read 2026-09-10.
- workingproxysites.com listing for firewall.netxess.com, https://workingproxysites.com/recent-proxies.php?start=495, captured 10 September 2026.
- Registry lookup (RDAP) for firewall.netxess.com returned no record. Read 2026-09-10.
- Our own status check of firewall.netxess.com and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
