This is an obituary written from public records rather than gossip. Mike1023 has stopped answering, and the registration and archive trail is the only honest account of it available.
When the lights went out
Three requests on 9 September 2026, https, www and http, all failed with ENOTFOUND. There is no server left behind that name.
Of 51 archived captures that actually loaded, the newest is July 2025. That is where the trail ends.
How it described itself
In July 2025, the last month the archive caught it working, the homepage was titled "Welcome to Mike1023.com". Its search snippet read: "Easiest jQuery Tooltip Ever"
Archived marketing is still marketing. What makes it worth quoting is that it cannot be edited after the fact, so it is a fixed record of the promise being made at the time.
What they sold
The archive first captured a working page in March 2002.
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 24 August 2001 through IONOS SE. That makes the name about 25 years old. Someone renewed it through 24 August 2027 despite the site being gone. Checked against the registry on 9 September 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.
More of the same record
The same treatment, applied to others that stopped answering:
- What happened to Dieniao
- What happened to DoorVPN (IPIDEA)
- What happened to Dostunnel
- What happened to Douglashuck
- What happened to Dsrvtg
- What happened to Dutchproxy
What to use instead
Use a list that is re-checked rather than a name that used to work. Our free proxy list is re-verified every few minutes, so entries that stop answering fall off it. If you already have an address from an old bookmark, the proxy checker will tell you whether it still relays anything.
Free proxies are shared, which means the sites that care have usually seen the address before you arrive, and they hold no session, so logins tend to break halfway through. That is the honest shape of free, ours included.
