publicproxyservers.com no longer runs a list of its own. On September 16, 2026, every request to it ended at www.proxy4free.com, whose page is titled "The Highest Quality Proxies - Residential Ip Resource Service - Proxy4free". The name still works; it just belongs to someone else's traffic now.
What it was
Public Proxy Servers publishes other people's proxy addresses as a list of IP and port pairs. It is run independently, not by a proxy seller.
One of the oldest names in this market. Now redirects to proxy4free.com, so it was absorbed.
The record, with dates
The Internet Archive first captured publicproxyservers.com on August 4, 2002, and last captured it on December 18, 2023, 21 years apart, 6000 captures in all, the most of them in 2023. Read on September 17, 2026.
The registry record for publicproxyservers.com says the name was registered on April 5, 2002, its term runs to April 5, 2028, the registrar of record is GoDaddy.com, LLC. Read on September 17, 2026.
What we checked, and how
We asked publicproxyservers.com ourselves on September 16, 2026, from a datacenter connection in Germany, following redirects by hand so the chain is on the record. What came back: a redirect to www.proxy4free.com, which answered HTTP 200. We did not read the site from a home connection and we did not save its pages; the result above is the whole of what we took.
- Now sends you to www.proxy4free.comwhat came back: a redirect to www.proxy4free.com, which answered HTTP 200
- An archive historyAug 4, 2002, to Dec 18, 2023, 6,000 captures
- A registry recordregistered Apr 5, 2002, the term runs to Apr 5, 2028
What to use instead
A free list is a list of other people's machines, and it behaves like one: the addresses that answer at breakfast are gone by lunch, the country label is often wrong, and anything you send through one is readable by whoever runs the exit. That is true of every name on this page, alive or gone.
If you are testing whether a target blocks proxies at all, a free list is fine and costs nothing. If the job has to finish, has to come from a country you chose, or carries a login, it needs addresses somebody is accountable for. What we sell starts at $0.44 per GB, pay as you go, with no plan to reach first.
Our own maintained lists are here, and the wider picture of which of these sites still work is in our census of free proxy sites.
The limits of this record
- We checked once, on one day, from one place.
- We do not know who runs it, where the addresses come from, or whether anyone tests them before publishing. Nobody in this corner of the market publishes that.
This page is due for a re-check by March 16, 2027, or sooner if the status above changes.
Sources
- HProxy, our own status check of publicproxyservers.com, September 16, 2026, from a datacenter connection in Germany.
- Internet Archive, capture index for publicproxyservers.com. Read September 17, 2026.
- Registry record (RDAP) for publicproxyservers.com. Read September 17, 2026.
- The address as published: http://www.publicproxyservers.com/page1.html.
