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What happened to ipcloak.us: the dated record

Ipcloak.us was a free web proxy the archive first saved in July 2012. What it was, when it stopped, what the name does today, and a list that is still checked.

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ipcloak.us does not exist any more. The name stopped resolving, so a browser cannot even find a server to ask, and the last time anything answered there was January 2020.

The site behind the name

The Internet Archive's first working copy of ipcloak.us is from July 2012 and it holds 66 days of captures in total.

It ran on Glype, the script behind most free web proxies of that era.

Somebody submitted it to workingproxysites.com 12 years ago, and the directory counted 287 clicks on it. The listing places it in France.

How it ended

The last capture that returned a page at all is from 23 January 2020.

By 23 January 2020 the same address answered with something else: the capture from that day is titled "ipcloak.us - Registered at Namecheap.com".

Where the address points now

We checked ipcloak.us 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.

What still works

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Free proxies stay shared and short lived. For opening a blocked page that is usually enough, and for anything that has to work at a particular moment it is not.

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 ipcloak.us, first capture 19 July 2012, most recent capture 23 January 2020. Read 2026-09-10.
  • workingproxysites.com listing for ipcloak.us, https://workingproxysites.com/recent-proxies.php?start=270, captured 10 September 2026.
  • Our own status check of ipcloak.us and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Is ipcloak.us still working?
No. The name no longer resolves, which we checked on 10 September 2026 from our own server. The last working page the Internet Archive holds is from January 2020.
What can I use instead of ipcloak.us?
A list that is re-checked rather than a name someone remembers. Our free proxy list is re-verified every few minutes, so entries that stop answering drop off it. Free proxies stay shared and short lived, so anything behind a login will still break.

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