thebestproxy.org answers somebody. The archive holds a page captured on 15 April 2026; our own request, sent from a data centre, timed out. Both of those can be true at once, and only one of them is about the site being gone.
The site it used to be
The Internet Archive's first working copy of thebestproxy.org is from April 2017 and it holds 49 days of captures in total.
The page called itself "The Best Proxy 2021 - anonymous free web proxy site". Underneath it was Glype, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
Get on sites that are blocked by firewall in your school or work or simply anywhere and completely hide your browsing history.
That is the site's own description, from the capture of 20 April 2017.
A directory of free web proxies, workingproxysites.com, took the listing 13 years ago, and that listing counted 1,635 clicks through to it.
When it stopped
The last capture that shows the proxy itself is from 15 April 2026.
What answers there now
We checked thebestproxy.org on 10 September 2026 from our own server in Germany. It answers with no answer.
The registry record shows the name was registered on 23 March 2017 and is paid until 23 March 2027 through NameSilo, LLC. Its name servers are ns1.dnsowl.com and ns2.dnsowl.com.
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 thebestproxy.org, first capture 20 April 2017, most recent capture 15 April 2026. Read 2026-09-10.
- workingproxysites.com listing for thebestproxy.org, https://workingproxysites.com/recent-proxies.php?start=8910, captured 10 September 2026.
- Internet Archive, capture of thebestproxy.org dated 20 April 2017, quoted above. Read 2026-09-10.
- Registry record (RDAP) for thebestproxy.org, registrar NameSilo, LLC. Read 2026-09-10.
- Our own status check of thebestproxy.org and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
