Zhimahttp (芝麻HTTP) is gone. This page sets out what the public record actually shows about when and how, what the site looked like while it traded, and what a customer left holding an account should do now.
The date it stopped
We tried three routes to it on 9 September 2026 and all three failed (ENOTFOUND). Nothing is listening.
Wayback has it working until May 2024 and not after, across 6 captures. Treat that month as approximate.
The final archived page
In May 2024, the last month the archive caught it working, the homepage was titled "芝麻HTTP-企业级HTTP动( 静 )态代理IP服务提供商". The banner line read "企业级HTTP动( 静 )态代理IP服务提供商". The description it gave search engines said: "欢迎访问芝麻HTTP官网，我们是一家专业的代理IP服务商，提供高质量的代理IP服务，帮助您实现网络爬虫、数据采集、保护隐私安全浏览等需求。我们的代理IP具有稳定性高、速度快、隐私保护等特点，能够满足您的各种代理需求。芝麻HTTP为您提供可靠的代理IP解决方案。"
Read it as the pitch rather than the product. Its value is that the Internet Archive holds it independently of us and of them, so anyone can check the quotation.
What it looked like while it traded
The archive first captured a working page in May 2021.
None of it is a verdict on quality. It is the shape of a business that existed, which is worth establishing before anything else, because this market also contains names that never traded at all.
The domain, on paper
Public registry data puts the registration at 6 November 2017, through Alibaba Cloud Computing (Beijing) Co., Ltd.. The name is roughly 8 years old. The registration lasts until 6 November 2026. Held, but unused. Registry query dated 23 April 2026.
The honest limit here: we can show you the ending and not the reason for it. Anyone publishing a confident explanation of a small provider's shutdown is usually repeating a forum rumour, and we would rather leave the gap visible.
Others that stopped
Others in this market that ended, checked the same way:
- What happened to Qirina
- What happened to RadianceProxies
- What happened to Rating Proxy
- What happened to Realgirls
- What happened to Roxlabs
- What happened to Royalproxies
The honest replacement
For anyone with an unused balance: check whether your payment still falls inside your card scheme's dispute window. Keep the receipts and any support thread. Once a provider stops answering, that is usually the only route left.
On picking the next one: the lesson of a page like this is not "choose a big provider", it is "do not prepay more than you would mind losing, and do not accept a balance that expires". We sell residential from $0.44 per GB with a balance that does not expire and no subscription, which is the shape that fails least badly when a provider does. Test it and anything else you shortlist on your own target before you move volume.
