proxy-free.net does not exist any more. The name stopped resolving, so a browser cannot even find a server to ask, and the last time anything answered there was December 2008.
What it was
The Internet Archive's first working copy of proxy-free.net is from April 2006 and it holds 86 days of captures in total.
The page called itself "Proxy Free". It ran on PHProxy, the script behind most free web proxies of that era.
A proxy server works by intercepting connections between sender and receiver.
That is the site's own description, from the capture of 16 December 2008.
It was listed on workingproxysites.com, a directory of free web proxies, 10 years ago, and that listing counted 333 clicks through to it.
When it stopped
The last capture that shows the proxy itself is from 16 December 2008 and the archive kept visiting until 17 July 2025.
What the name does today
We checked proxy-free.net 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.
The registry has no record of the name any more, which means the registration itself lapsed rather than the site simply going quiet.
People still look for it: 30 searches a month for the name, according to Google's Keyword Planner read on 10 September 2026.
What still works
The replacement for a dead web proxy is not another name to remember. Our free proxy list shows when each entry was last checked and re-verifies every few minutes, and the checker tests an address you bring yourself.
Free proxies stay shared and short lived. For opening a blocked page that is usually enough, and for anything that has to work at a particular moment it is not.
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 proxy-free.net, first capture 7 April 2006, most recent capture 17 July 2025. Read 2026-09-10.
- Internet Archive, capture of proxy-free.net dated 16 December 2008, quoted above. Read 2026-09-10.
- Registry lookup (RDAP) for proxy-free.net returned no record. Read 2026-09-10.
- Our own status check of proxy-free.net and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
- Google Ads Keyword Planner, worldwide monthly searches for the name. Read 10 September 2026.
