hide-my-ip.com no longer runs a list of its own. On 16 September 2026 every request to it ended at www.hidemyip.com, whose page is titled "Hide My IP - Hide Your IP, Surf Anonymously, and Access Blocked Websites". The name still works; it just belongs to someone else's traffic now.
What it was
Hide My IP proxy list publishes other people's proxy addresses as a list of IP and port pairs. It is run by a company that sells paid proxies, so the free list is a shop window.
Sells IP-hiding software; the proxy list is the lead magnet. Now redirects to hidemyip.com.
The record, with dates
The Internet Archive first captured hide-my-ip.com on 5 April 2006 and last captured it on 17 June 2026, 20 years apart, 6000 captures in all, the most of them in 2008. Read on 17 September 2026.
What we checked, and how
We asked hide-my-ip.com ourselves on 16 September 2026, from a datacenter connection in Germany, following redirects by hand so the chain is on the record. What came back: https (HTTP 200). We did not read the site from a home connection and we did not save its pages; the result above is the whole of what we took.
What to use instead
A free list is a list of other people's machines, and it behaves like one: the addresses that answer at breakfast are gone by lunch, the country label is often wrong, and anything you send through one is readable by whoever runs the exit. That is true of every name on this page, alive or gone.
If you are testing whether a target blocks proxies at all, a free list is fine and costs nothing. If the job has to finish, has to come from a country you chose, or carries a login, it needs addresses somebody is accountable for. What we sell starts at $0.44 per GB, pay as you go, with no plan to reach first.
Our own maintained lists are here, and the wider picture of which of these sites still work is in our census of free proxy sites.
The limits of this record
- We checked once, on one day, from one place.
- We could not read a registry record for the name, so no registration or expiry date is printed here.
- We do not know who runs it, where the addresses come from, or whether anyone tests them before publishing. Nobody in this corner of the market publishes that.
This page is due for a re-check by 16 March 2027, or sooner if the status above changes.
Sources
- HProxy, our own status check of hide-my-ip.com, 16 September 2026, from a datacenter connection in Germany.
- Internet Archive, capture index for hide-my-ip.com. Read 17 September 2026.
- The address as published: https://www.hide-my-ip.com/proxylist.shtml.
