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What happened to Proxycat, and what to use instead

Proxycat has stopped answering. The registration and archive record, what the site looked like while it worked, and what still works instead.

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Proxycat no longer answers. We re-checked it the day this page was written, over three routes, and nothing came back. The record of the years before that is below.

When the lights went out

We tried three routes to it on 9 September 2026 and all three failed (ENOTFOUND). Nothing is listening.

The last working page the archive caught was in June 2023, out of 6 good snapshots. Coverage is not continuous, so read it as roughly when.

What the last capture shows

Archived June 2023, the page called itself "Proxy Cat". Its search snippet read: "Web site created using create-react-app"

Read it as the pitch rather than the product. Its value is that the Internet Archive holds it independently of us and of them, so anyone can check the quotation.

What they sold

The archive first captured a working page in October 2018.

The public record holds that much. It shows a company that was real and shipping, and nothing about how well.

We also track the same brand at proxycat.ga, proxycat.gq, proxycat.ml, proxycat.tk. Where a shutdown leaves sibling domains behind, they are worth checking before assuming everything stopped.

We stop short of a cause deliberately. The registration and archive trail shows when things stopped and nothing about why, and the difference between those two claims is the difference between a fact and a defamation.

Also gone

We keep the same record for these, each re-checked the day it was written:

Where former customers end up

Frequently asked questions

Is Proxycat really gone?
We re-checked the domain on 9 September 2026 over https, www and plain http. Nothing answered on any of them. That is evidence of a shutdown rather than proof of one, and it is the strongest evidence the public web offers.
What happened to Proxycat?
We do not know, and we will not guess in public. The record shows when the site stopped being captured and that it no longer answers. It says nothing about the reason, and every confident explanation of a small provider's shutdown that we have read traces back to a forum rumour.
What should I use instead of Proxycat?
Nothing that promises to be Proxycat again. Use a list with a visible last-checked time, test the address before you trust it, and expect a free proxy to fail on any site that cares about proxy traffic. Our free list is re-verified every few minutes and the checker tests one address on demand.

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