The short version: proxy.yaleexplained.com is off the internet. Not blocked, not slow, not moved. The name no longer resolves, and the newest working copy anyone kept is from October 2013.
What it was
The Internet Archive's first working copy of proxy.yaleexplained.com is from September 2013 and it holds 2 days of captures in total.
Underneath it was PHProxy, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
It was listed on workingproxysites.com, a directory of free web proxies, 13 years ago, and that listing counted 392 clicks through to it.
The end of it
and the archive kept visiting until 27 October 2013.
The address today
We checked proxy.yaleexplained.com 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.
The limits of this record
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.
One check, one day, one place: that is the honest weight of what we measured, since a site blocking data centre traffic reads exactly like a site that is gone. The next check is due by 1 January 2027.
Sources
- Internet Archive, capture index for proxy.yaleexplained.com, first capture 26 September 2013, most recent capture 27 October 2013. Read 2026-09-10.
- workingproxysites.com listing for proxy.yaleexplained.com, https://workingproxysites.com/recent-proxies.php?start=7245, captured 10 September 2026.
- Our own status check of proxy.yaleexplained.com and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
