The useful thing to know about Proxy1 is not why it ended, which nobody outside the company can honestly tell you, but when it stopped and what you should do about the money or the traffic you had with it.
The date it stopped
On 9 September 2026 the name resolved to nothing usable (ENOTFOUND). Three attempts, two protocols, no response.
The archive stops returning a real page after November 2017, having kept 4 of them. Crawls continued; the site did not.
The site, in its own words
As of its last working snapshot in November 2017, the title read "Free proxy and anonymous web surfing". The banner line read "Free anonymous web surfing". The description it gave search engines said: "Feel free to browse the internet fast and anonymously with USA IP web proxy to unblock websites like Facebook, Twitter and more!"
A third party kept that, which is why it is quotable. It records what was being claimed, and says nothing about whether the claims held up.
What it looked like while it traded
The archive first captured a working page in August 2017.
None of it is a verdict on quality. It is the shape of a business that existed, which is worth establishing before anything else, because this market also contains names that never traded at all.
The honest limit here: we can show you the ending and not the reason for it. Anyone publishing a confident explanation of a small provider's shutdown is usually repeating a forum rumour, and we would rather leave the gap visible.
Also gone
More providers that are no longer there, with dates rather than rumours:
- What happened to Onlinefreely
- What happened to Openvpn
- What happened to Packetix
- What happened to PacketSDK (IPIDEA)
- What happened to Paiddomains
- What happened to Peer2Profit
What to use instead
For anyone with an unused balance: check whether your payment still falls inside your card scheme's dispute window. Keep the receipts and any support thread. Once a provider stops answering, that is usually the only route left.
On picking the next one: the lesson of a page like this is not "choose a big provider", it is "do not prepay more than you would mind losing, and do not accept a balance that expires". We sell residential from $0.44 per GB with a balance that does not expire and no subscription, which is the shape that fails least badly when a provider does. Test it and anything else you shortlist on your own target before you move volume.
