japanproxy.net is somebody else's site now. The address answers, but what loads has nothing to do with the proxy that used to be there, whose last working capture dates to August 2017.
What it was
The Internet Archive's first working copy of japanproxy.net is from August 2017 and it holds 13 days of captures in total.
The page called itself "Japan Proxy - Public Free Proxy". Underneath it was PHProxy, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
There are several kinds of security utilities out there such as Japan proxy server, VPN and Tor etc.
That is the site's own description, from the capture of 6 August 2017.
It was listed on workingproxysites.com, a directory of free web proxies, 9 years ago, and that listing counted 847 clicks through to it. The directory recorded it as United States.
When it stopped
The last capture that shows the proxy itself is from 6 August 2017 and the archive kept visiting until 19 April 2018.
What the name does today
We checked japanproxy.net on 10 September 2026 from our own server in Germany. It answers, and the page is titled "Japan Proxy - Buy Japanese Proxies | Fast".
What to use instead
Use a list somebody keeps checking rather than a name that used to work. Our free proxy list is re-verified every few minutes, and an address that stops answering leaves it instead of sitting there for years. If you already have an address, the proxy checker will tell you whether it still relays anything.
The limits of free are the same everywhere, ours included: the addresses are shared, so the sites that care have seen them before, and there is no session to hold, so logins break part way through.
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 japanproxy.net, first capture 24 April 2017, most recent capture 19 April 2018. Read 2026-09-10.
- Internet Archive, capture of japanproxy.net dated 6 August 2017, quoted above. Read 2026-09-10.
- Our own status check of japanproxy.net and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
