proxy-list.download answered HTTP 502 on 16 September 2026 ("proxy-list.download"). One bad hour is not proof a site is finished, so this page records what we saw and the date, and nothing more.
What it was
proxy-list.download publishes a proxy list and an API over the same data. It is run independently, not by a proxy seller.
Shared /blog/proxy-list-alternative with proxy-list.org, a different company. Each needs its own page.
The record, with dates
The Internet Archive first captured proxy-list.download on 14 June 2018 and last captured it on 10 March 2026, 8 years apart, 2242 captures in all, the most of them in 2025. Read on 17 September 2026.
The registry record for proxy-list.download says the name was registered on 5 March 2018, its term runs to 5 March 2027, the registrar of record is NameCheap, Inc.. Read on 17 September 2026.
What we checked, and how
We asked proxy-list.download ourselves on 16 September 2026, from a datacenter connection in Germany, following redirects by hand so the chain is on the record. What came back: HTTP 502 (HTTP 502). We did not read the site from a home connection and we did not save its pages; the result above is the whole of what we took.
That matters for how much weight to put on it. A single vantage can be blocked, geofenced or simply unlucky, so this page says what we saw rather than declaring the site finished. If you can reach it from a home connection, it is up for you.
What to use instead
A free list is a list of other people's machines, and it behaves like one: the addresses that answer at breakfast are gone by lunch, the country label is often wrong, and anything you send through one is readable by whoever runs the exit. That is true of every name on this page, alive or gone.
If you are testing whether a target blocks proxies at all, a free list is fine and costs nothing. If the job has to finish, has to come from a country you chose, or carries a login, it needs addresses somebody is accountable for. What we sell starts at $0.44 per GB, pay as you go, with no plan to reach first.
Our own maintained lists are here, and the wider picture of which of these sites still work is in our census of free proxy sites.
The limits of this record
- We checked once, on one day, from one place.
- We do not know who runs it, where the addresses come from, or whether anyone tests them before publishing. Nobody in this corner of the market publishes that.
This page is due for a re-check by 16 March 2027, or sooner if the status above changes.
Sources
- HProxy, our own status check of proxy-list.download, 16 September 2026, from a datacenter connection in Germany.
- Internet Archive, capture index for proxy-list.download. Read 17 September 2026.
- Registry record (RDAP) for proxy-list.download. Read 17 September 2026.
- The address as published: https://www.proxy-list.download/HTTP.
