hidester.com is up, but it refused us. On 16 September 2026 it answered HTTP 403 to a datacenter connection in Germany, showing "Error 403 Forbidden". A list you cannot fetch from a server is not much use for automation, which is the main reason people look these up.
What it was
Hidester 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.
Web-proxy and VPN brand with a proxy-list page. Answers 403 to our vantage and the chain ended at vpncentral.com, which needs a second look before any claim.
The record, with dates
The registry record for hidester.com says the name was registered on 9 June 2015, its term runs to 9 June 2027, the registrar of record is GoDaddy.com, LLC. Read on 17 September 2026.
What we checked, and how
We asked hidester.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: HTTP 403 (HTTP 403). 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.
- The Internet Archive returned no usable capture index for hidester.com when we read it, so this page carries no archive history for the site.
- A 403 to us is not a 403 to everyone; the site may serve a browser from a home connection perfectly well.
- 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 hidester.com, 16 September 2026, from a datacenter connection in Germany.
- Registry record (RDAP) for hidester.com. Read 17 September 2026.
- The address as published: https://hidester.com/proxylist/.
