vtunnelbrowser.com is gone in the most literal sense: the name itself no longer exists in the domain system. The last page anyone saved from it dates to January 2014.
What it was
The Internet Archive's first working copy of vtunnelbrowser.com is from March 2013 and it holds 128 days of captures in total.
The page called itself "VTunnel Proxy Site". Underneath it was Glype, the same free script the rest of the directory ran.
This proxy site thus allows you to visit Facebook and MySpace even though thye are blocked.
That is the site's own description, from the capture of 30 March 2013.
It was listed on workingproxysites.com, a directory of free web proxies, 13 years ago, and that listing counted 1,942 clicks through to it. The directory recorded it as United States.
When it stopped
The last capture that shows the proxy itself is from 21 January 2014 and the archive kept visiting until 27 March 2022.
By 1 November 2019 the same address answered with something else: the capture from that day is titled "vtunnelbrowser.com domain name is for sale. Inquire now.".
What the name does today
We checked vtunnelbrowser.com 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.
The registry has no record of the name any more, which means the registration itself lapsed rather than the site simply going quiet.
People still look for it: 10 searches a month for the name, according to Google's Keyword Planner read on 10 September 2026.
What to use instead
Use a list somebody keeps checking rather than a name that used to work. Our free proxy list is re-verified every few minutes, and an address that stops answering leaves it instead of sitting there for years. If you already have an address, the proxy checker will tell you whether it still relays anything.
The limits of free are the same everywhere, ours included: the addresses are shared, so the sites that care have seen them before, and there is no session to hold, so logins break part way through.
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 vtunnelbrowser.com, first capture 30 March 2013, most recent capture 27 March 2022. Read 2026-09-10.
- Internet Archive, capture of vtunnelbrowser.com dated 30 March 2013, quoted above. Read 2026-09-10.
- Registry lookup (RDAP) for vtunnelbrowser.com returned no record. Read 2026-09-10.
- Our own status check of vtunnelbrowser.com and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
- Google Ads Keyword Planner, worldwide monthly searches for the name. Read 10 September 2026.
