proxies.nu 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 March 2018.
The site it used to be
The Internet Archive's first working copy of proxies.nu is from April 2001 and it holds 50 days of captures in total.
The directory recorded it as a PHProxy install, which is what nearly all of these sites were.
A directory of free web proxies, workingproxysites.com, took the listing 12 years ago, and 296 people clicked through from there. The directory recorded it as United States.
When it stopped
The last capture that returned a page at all is from 22 March 2018.
By 22 March 2018 the same address answered with something else: the capture from that day is titled "The domain name proxies.nu is for sale | Undeveloped".
What answers there now
We checked proxies.nu on 10 September 2026 from our own server. Nothing resolves. The lookup comes back empty, which means no server can even be reached, let alone a proxy.
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 we could not establish
No public document explains the ending. We can date it and describe it; anything about motive would be invention, and this page prints none.
This is a single reading from a single vantage point. A proxy that turns away data centre addresses would give us the same silence as a proxy that no longer exists. We recheck by 1 January 2027.
Sources
- Internet Archive, capture index for proxies.nu, first capture 10 April 2001, most recent capture 22 March 2018. Read 2026-09-10.
- workingproxysites.com listing for proxies.nu, https://workingproxysites.com/recent-proxies.php?start=495, captured 10 September 2026.
- Our own status check of proxies.nu and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
