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What happened to Proxyrbl, and what to use instead

Looking for Proxyrbl? It no longer answers. Here is the dated evidence, stated only as far as it goes, and the honest replacement.

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Proxyrbl 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

Nothing answered on 9 September 2026, the error being ENOTFOUND. Not a redirect, not a holding page. Silence.

Archive coverage stops at October 2016, after 3 good captures. The crawler kept visiting. There was nothing left to save.

What the last capture shows

Archived October 2016, the page called itself "���C���̓��B�L���A����g�T�C�g�ŏo��n�̏n���Ɗ֌W". Its search snippet read: "���C���̓��B�L���A����g�T�C�g�ŏo��n�̏n���Ɗ֌W"

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 December 2014.

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

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:

Where to go now

Frequently asked questions

Is Proxyrbl 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 Proxyrbl?
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 Proxyrbl?
A list that is re-checked rather than a name someone remembers. Our free proxy list is re-verified every few minutes, so an address that stops answering drops off it instead of sitting there for years. Free proxies stay shared and short-lived, so anything that needs a login will still break.

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