unblock.nu does not exist any more. The name stopped resolving, so a browser cannot even find a server to ask, and the last time anything answered there was February 2021.
What it was
The Internet Archive's first working copy of unblock.nu is from January 2016 and it holds 7 days of captures in total.
The page called itself "Parked at Loopia". It ran on PHProxy, the script behind most free web proxies of that era.
It was listed on workingproxysites.com, a directory of free web proxies, 12 years ago, and that listing counted 335 clicks through to it. The directory recorded it as Latvia.
When it stopped
The last capture that shows the proxy itself is from 11 February 2021.
What the name does today
We checked unblock.nu on 10 September 2026 from our own server. The name does not resolve: there is no address behind it, so nothing can be served from it.
What still works
The replacement for a dead web proxy is not another name to remember. Our free proxy list shows when each entry was last checked and re-verifies every few minutes, and the checker tests an address you bring yourself.
Free proxies stay shared and short lived. For opening a blocked page that is usually enough, and for anything that has to work at a particular moment it is not.
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 unblock.nu, first capture 7 August 2014, most recent capture 11 February 2021. Read 2026-09-10.
- Our own status check of unblock.nu and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
