ProxyFire 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
Every request we made on 9 September 2026 failed, the last with UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT. Nothing responds on that name over either protocol.
Of 88 archived captures that actually loaded, the newest is December 2019. That is where the trail ends.
What the last capture shows
The last capture, December 2019, shows a holding page titled "Database Error".
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 2007.
The public record holds that much. It shows a company that was real and shipping, and nothing about how well.
What the registry shows
The domain was registered on 22 February 2006 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. That makes the name about 20 years old. Someone renewed it through 22 February 2028 despite the site being gone. Checked against the registry on 23 April 2026.
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.
The rest of the graveyard
Others in this market that ended, checked the same way:
- What happened to 922 S5 Proxy
- What happened to Amethyst
- What happened to Anyproxy
- What happened to Awebproxy
- What happened to Best Proxy
- What happened to Blackvpn
What to do if you were a customer
If you still have money or traffic sitting with them, the realistic options are a chargeback if the payment is recent enough for your card scheme, and a written record of what you paid for. Prepaid balances with a company that has stopped answering are rarely recovered any other way.
Choosing a replacement: weight the terms as heavily as the price. A balance that expires and a large minimum top-up are the two features that turn a shutdown into a real loss. Ours does neither, and residential starts at $0.44 per GB. That is our pitch, and the honest advice underneath it applies whoever you pick.
