france-proxy.net is gone in the most literal sense: the name itself no longer exists in the domain system. The last page anyone saved from it dates to August 2018.
What it was
The Internet Archive's first working copy of france-proxy.net is from August 2017 and it holds 22 days of captures in total.
Underneath it was PHProxy, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
It was listed on workingproxysites.com, a directory of free web proxies, 10 years ago, and that listing counted 354 clicks through to it.
When it stopped
The last capture that returned a page at all is from 18 August 2018 and the archive kept visiting until 9 April 2019.
What the name does today
We checked france-proxy.net 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.
People still look for it: 10 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
Why it stopped is not in the record. A dead name and an archive that runs out show that something ended, not the reason for it, and we will not put a reason in print that the record does not carry.
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 france-proxy.net, first capture 14 February 2017, most recent capture 9 April 2019. Read 2026-09-10.
- Our own status check of france-proxy.net 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.
