We could not reach steganos.com on 16 September 2026 from a datacenter connection in Germany (UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT). That is a fact about our connection as much as about the site, so this page does not call it closed.
What it was
Steganos proxy list publishes other people's proxy addresses as a list of IP and port pairs. It is run by a company that sells paid proxies, so the free list is a shop window.
Privacy-software vendor. The URL Billal listed is an in-product update endpoint (?area=updateproxylist), not a public list page. Nothing answered our vantage.
The record, with dates
The Internet Archive first captured steganos.com on 25 January 1999 and last captured it on 27 November 2021, 22 years apart, 6000 captures in all, the most of them in 2005. Read on 17 September 2026.
The registry record for steganos.com says the name was registered on 1 July 1998, its term runs to 30 June 2027, the registrar of record is InterNetX GmbH. Read on 17 September 2026.
What we checked, and how
We asked steganos.com ourselves on 16 September 2026, from a datacenter connection in Germany, following redirects by hand so the chain is on the record. What came back: UND_ERR_CONNECT_TIMEOUT. 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.
That matters for how much weight to put on it. A single vantage can be blocked, geofenced or simply unlucky, so this page says what we saw rather than declaring the site finished. If you can reach it from a home connection, it is up for you.
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 16 March 2027, or sooner if the status above changes.
Sources
- HProxy, our own status check of steganos.com, 16 September 2026, from a datacenter connection in Germany.
- Internet Archive, capture index for steganos.com. Read 17 September 2026.
- Registry record (RDAP) for steganos.com. Read 17 September 2026.
- The address as published: http://www.steganos.com/?area=updateproxylist.
