newyear.mrcules.com answers nothing today, because the name itself was given up. A browser asking for it gets no address back at all, and the last saved copy of the site is from January 2015.
The site behind the name
The Internet Archive's first working copy of newyear.mrcules.com is from January 2015 and it holds 1 days of captures in total.
The page called itself "Healthy Web Proxy - A Gate To Safe Browsing". The directory recorded it as a Glype install, which is what nearly all of these sites were.
Somebody submitted it to workingproxysites.com 12 years ago, and 268 people clicked through from there. The directory recorded it as United States.
How it ended
The last capture that shows the proxy itself is from 4 January 2015.
Where the address points now
We checked newyear.mrcules.com 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.
A working replacement
The useful thing is not another proxy name, it is a list somebody re-checks. Ours drops entries the moment they stop answering, and the checker will tell you whether an address you already have still relays anything.
Free proxies remain shared and short lived, which is fine for opening one blocked page and wrong for anything that has to hold a session.
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 newyear.mrcules.com, first capture 4 January 2015, most recent capture 4 January 2015. Read 2026-09-10.
- workingproxysites.com listing for newyear.mrcules.com, https://workingproxysites.com/recent-proxies.php?start=270, captured 10 September 2026.
- Our own status check of newyear.mrcules.com and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
