privateproxy.nu is gone in the most literal sense: the name itself no longer exists in the domain system. The last page anyone saved from it dates to September 2017.
What it was
The Internet Archive's first working copy of privateproxy.nu is from February 2015 and it holds 9 days of captures in total.
Underneath it was PHProxy, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
Private proxy is the free proxy service to hide your IP address and the browsing history from the prying eyes.
That is the site's own description, from the capture of 16 February 2015.
It was listed on workingproxysites.com, a directory of free web proxies, 12 years ago, and that listing counted 831 clicks through to it.
When it stopped
The last capture that shows the proxy itself is from 25 September 2017.
What the name does today
We checked privateproxy.nu on 10 September 2026 from our own server. The name does not resolve: there is no address behind it, so nothing can be served from it.
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
The record shows when, not why. Nothing public says whether the operator lost interest, lost the hosting, or simply moved on, so this page does not guess.
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 privateproxy.nu, first capture 21 November 2014, most recent capture 25 September 2017. Read 2026-09-10.
- Internet Archive, capture of privateproxy.nu dated 16 February 2015, quoted above. Read 2026-09-10.
- Our own status check of privateproxy.nu and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
