If you came looking for web-proxy.nu, stop here: the address has no server behind it and has not served a page since September 2017.
What it was
The Internet Archive's first working copy of web-proxy.nu is from July 2014 and it holds 7 days of captures in total.
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 the directory counted 371 clicks on it. The listing places it in United States.
The end of it
The last capture that shows the proxy itself is from 23 September 2017.
The address today
We checked web-proxy.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 we would use
Skip the name-hunting. The free proxy list we publish is re-verified every few minutes and shows exactly when each address last answered, and the checker will test an address from an old bookmark before you rely on it.
The honest caveat stays: a free proxy is shared and short lived, and anything behind a login tends to break part way through.
The limits of this record
The record shows when, not why. Nothing public says whether the operator lost interest, lost the hosting, or simply moved on, so this page does not guess.
One check, one day, one place: that is the honest weight of what we measured, since a site blocking data centre traffic reads exactly like a site that is gone. The next check is due by 1 January 2027.
Sources
- Internet Archive, capture index for web-proxy.nu, first capture 17 June 2014, most recent capture 23 September 2017. Read 2026-09-10.
- workingproxysites.com listing for web-proxy.nu, https://workingproxysites.com/recent-proxies.php?start=540, captured 10 September 2026.
- Our own status check of web-proxy.nu and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.
