pxsearch.com does not answer. The name still resolves, but nothing responded to our request, and the archive's last working copy is from August 2024.
What it was
The Internet Archive's first working copy of pxsearch.com is from May 2005 and it holds 37 days of captures in total.
The directory recorded it as a PHProxy install, which is what nearly all of these sites were.
It was listed on workingproxysites.com, a directory of free web proxies, 12 years ago, and that listing counted 326 clicks through to it. The directory recorded it as Germany.
When it stopped
The last capture that returned a page at all is from 22 August 2024 and the archive kept visiting until 10 July 2025.
What the name does today
We checked pxsearch.com on 10 September 2026 from our own server in Germany. It answers, and the page is titled "pxsearch.com".
Where to go from here
A list with a visible last-checked time beats a remembered domain. Ours re-verifies every few minutes; the checker tests a single address if you would rather bring your own.
Expect what free has always meant: shared addresses that targets recognise, and no session persistence, which breaks anything behind a login.
What this page cannot tell you
Why it stopped is not in the record. A dead name and an archive that runs out show that something ended, not the reason for it, and we will not put a reason in print that the record does not carry.
Our status check is one day from one vantage point, and a site that refuses requests from data centres would look the same as one that is switched off. We will check this page again by 1 January 2027.
Sources
- Internet Archive, capture index for pxsearch.com, first capture 11 May 2005, most recent capture 10 July 2025. Read 2026-09-10.
- Our own status check of pxsearch.com and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
