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What happened to well-worn.tk, and what still works

Well-worn.tk was a free web proxy. What it was, when it stopped, what the name does today, and a list that is still checked.

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There is nothing left at well-worn.tk. The domain no longer resolves at all, and no archive holds a working copy of it.

What sat at this address

Well-worn.tk left very little behind. There is no archived copy of it, only the listing it was given and the state of the name now.

The directory recorded it as a Glype install, which is what nearly all of these sites were.

The listing that carried it, on the free proxy directory workingproxysites.com, is 13 years old, and 164 people clicked through from there.

When it went quiet

The address is part of the reason. A .tk name was free, handed out by Freenom, and free is what most of these proxies were built on. Freenom stopped issuing new names in early 2023 after Meta sued it over domains used in phishing, and the names already out there stopped resolving over the following year. We checked the whole directory: 8,281 of its 8,948 sites used a .tk address and 8,275 of those are now gone.

What the name does today

We checked well-worn.tk on 10 September 2026 from our own server. The lookup fails outright. Without an address there is nothing to connect to, whatever a directory still says about it.

Where to go from here

A list with a visible last-checked time beats a remembered domain. Ours re-verifies every few minutes; the checker tests a single address if you would rather bring your own.

Expect what free has always meant: shared addresses that targets recognise, and no session persistence, which breaks anything behind a login.

Where the record runs out

There is no account of who ran it or why they stopped. Small sites like this one leave dates behind, not explanations, and we would rather say so than fill the gap.

Treat the check as one sample: taken on one day, from one network. Anything refusing data centre traffic looks identical to something switched off. Due for a recheck by 1 January 2027.

Sources

  • Internet Archive, capture index for well-worn.tk: no working copy held. Read 2026-09-10.
  • workingproxysites.com listing for well-worn.tk, https://workingproxysites.com/recent-proxies.php?start=5310, captured 10 September 2026.
  • Our own status check of well-worn.tk and of all 8,948 sites listed on the same directory, 10 September 2026.

Frequently asked questions

Is well-worn.tk still working?
No. The name no longer resolves, which we checked on 10 September 2026 from our own server. The Internet Archive holds no working copy of it either.
What can I use instead of well-worn.tk?
Start from a list with a visible last-checked time, and test the address before you rely on it. Ours is re-verified every few minutes and the checker tests a single address on demand.

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