proxyturkey.net is gone in the most literal sense: the name itself no longer exists in the domain system. The last page anyone saved from it dates to February 2018.
The site it used to be
The Internet Archive's first working copy of proxyturkey.net is from January 2018 and it holds 3 days of captures in total.
Underneath it was PHProxy, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
A directory of free web proxies, workingproxysites.com, took the listing 10 years ago, and that listing counted 368 clicks through to it.
When it stopped
The last capture that returned a page at all is from 3 February 2018.
What answers there now
We checked proxyturkey.net on 10 September 2026 from our own server. Nothing resolves. The lookup comes back empty, which means no server can even be reached, let alone a proxy.
The replacement
What this site did, a page you browse through, is worth less now than a list you can test. Our free proxy list carries a last-checked time on every entry and re-verifies every few minutes; the checker tests any single address you bring.
None of that makes free proxies reliable. They are shared, so targets have seen the address before, and they hold no session, which breaks logins.
What we could not establish
No public document explains the ending. We can date it and describe it; anything about motive would be invention, and this page prints none.
This is a single reading from a single vantage point. A proxy that turns away data centre addresses would give us the same silence as a proxy that no longer exists. We recheck by 1 January 2027.
Sources
- Internet Archive, capture index for proxyturkey.net, first capture 26 March 2017, most recent capture 3 February 2018. Read 2026-09-10.
- workingproxysites.com listing for proxyturkey.net, https://workingproxysites.com/recent-proxies.php?start=90, captured 10 September 2026.
- Our own status check of proxyturkey.net and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
