This is an obituary written from public records rather than gossip. InstagramProxy has stopped answering, and the registration and archive trail is the only honest account of it available.
When the lights went out
The domain still responds as of 9 September 2026, serving a placeholder rather than a product. That usually means hosting outlived the company.
The last working page the archive caught was in December 2021, out of 4 good snapshots. Coverage is not continuous, so read it as roughly when.
What the last capture shows
Archived December 2021, the page called itself "instagramproxy.net This domain has expired!". Above the fold it said "instagramproxy.net". Its search snippet read: "This domain has expired. If you owned this domain, contact your domain registration service provider for further assistance."
Read it as the pitch rather than the product. Its value is that the Internet Archive holds it independently of us and of them, so anyone can check the quotation.
What they sold
The archive first captured a working page in September 2019.
The public record holds that much. It shows a company that was real and shipping, and nothing about how well.
What the registry shows
The domain was registered on 9 July 2017 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. That makes the name about 9 years old. Someone renewed it through 9 July 2026 despite the site being gone. Checked against the registry on 23 April 2026.
We stop short of a cause deliberately. The registration and archive trail shows when things stopped and nothing about why, and the difference between those two claims is the difference between a fact and a defamation.
Other providers that went quiet
More providers that are no longer there, with dates rather than rumours:
- What happened to RusVPN
- What happened to Samair.ru
- What happened to School Proxy
- What happened to Sdgc
- What happened to Smoothproxy
- What happened to Snushah
Where to go now
If you still have money or traffic sitting with them, the realistic options are a chargeback if the payment is recent enough for your card scheme, and a written record of what you paid for. Prepaid balances with a company that has stopped answering are rarely recovered any other way.
Choosing a replacement: weight the terms as heavily as the price. A balance that expires and a large minimum top-up are the two features that turn a shutdown into a real loss. Ours does neither, and residential starts at $0.44 per GB. That is our pitch, and the honest advice underneath it applies whoever you pick.
