This is an obituary written from public records rather than gossip. Openvpn has stopped answering, and the registration and archive trail is the only honest account of it available.
When the lights went out
Nothing answered on 9 September 2026, the error being timeout. Not a redirect, not a holding page. Silence.
Wayback has it working until April 2026 and not after, across 99 captures. Treat that month as approximate.
The site, in its own words
The final good capture, April 2026, carried the title "OpenVPN.CC - Элитный ВПН Сервис. - Site". Above the fold it said "Новости сервиса". Its search snippet read: "{$meta_desc}"
The company is describing itself there, preserved by a third party. It is the closest a reader gets to seeing what they signed up for. Marketing, not evidence of quality, but nobody can quietly revise it now.
What they sold
The archive first captured a working page in October 2008.
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 17 September 2008 through PDR Ltd. d/b/a PublicDomainRegistry.com. That makes the name about 17 years old. Someone renewed it through 17 September 2026 despite the site being gone. Checked against the registry on 9 September 2026.
Search demand has not caught up with the shutdown. About 1,520 searches a month still carry the name, read 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.
The rest of the graveyard
Others in this market that ended, checked the same way:
- What happened to Joblove
- What happened to Junproxy
- What happened to Koreaproxy
- What happened to Kymata
- What happened to Leaf Proxies
- What happened to Listproxy
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.
