hideproxy.nu 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 March 2018.
The site behind the name
The Internet Archive's first working copy of hideproxy.nu is from August 2015 and it holds 8 days of captures in total.
Underneath it was PHProxy, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
Somebody submitted it to workingproxysites.com 12 years ago, and that listing counted 337 clicks through to it. Its entry gives the country as United States.
How it ended
The last capture that returned a page at all is from 24 March 2018.
By 24 March 2018 the same address answered with something else: the capture from that day is titled "The domain name hideproxy.nu is for sale | Undeveloped".
Where the address points now
We checked hideproxy.nu on 10 September 2026 from our own server. No address comes back for it at all, so a browser gives up before it can ask for a page.
The replacement
What this site did, a page you browse through, is worth less now than a list you can test. Our free proxy list carries a last-checked time on every entry and re-verifies every few minutes; the checker tests any single address you bring.
None of that makes free proxies reliable. They are shared, so targets have seen the address before, and they hold no session, which breaks logins.
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 hideproxy.nu, first capture 29 September 2014, most recent capture 24 March 2018. Read 2026-09-10.
- workingproxysites.com listing for hideproxy.nu, https://workingproxysites.com/recent-proxies.php?start=360, captured 10 September 2026.
- Our own status check of hideproxy.nu and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
