Is 198.89.96.140:808 a proxy? Yes, it was.

50 public sources published it

198.89.96.140 appears in 50 of the public proxy sources HProxy tracks. Lists copy from each other constantly, so an address showing up in many of them says a lot about how widely it was republished and very little about whether it ever worked.

Port 808: System port

Ports below 1024 are protected. On most systems you need administrator rights to open one at all. So whatever is answering here was set up by someone with full control of that machine, not by some ordinary program that happened to be running.

Every check is a real connection

HProxy does not read this address off somebody else's list and pass it on. Each check opens a real connection to 198.89.96.140:808 and gives it up to 90 seconds to answer. Slow is not the same as unreachable, and plenty of working proxies take half a minute to reply. Anything that does not answer in that budget counts as a failure and is recorded as one, which is why the percentage on this page moves rather than sitting at a marketing number. The handshake is attempted across HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5, so a proxy is never missed because we guessed the wrong protocol.

969 checks, 503 answered

That is 52% of the time, measured since July 26, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.

We are still watching for it to come back

Being archived does not stop the testing. 198.89.96.140:808 answered before, so it is exactly the kind of address that can return, and the sweep works through the whole database and reaches every address roughly once every 12 hours. Its last check was on August 25, 2026, so the next one is due within a day of that. The moment it answers again it is promoted straight back into the live free proxy list, automatically, with no manual step.