Is 72.56.114.56:8888 a proxy? Yes, it was.
72.56.114.56:8888 was a public proxy in the HProxy free proxy pool, exiting from DE on TWC-EU. Across 476 checks it answered 47% of the time, and it has since gone dark (last listed 2026-07-19), so it is not a usable proxy right now.
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How HProxy checks 72.56.114.56:8888
HProxy has checked 72.56.114.56:8888 476 times and it answered 222 of those. Every one of those was a real connection attempt, never a lookup.
53 public sources published it
72.56.114.56 appears in 53 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 8888: HTTP, alternate
Port 8888 is another widely used unprivileged HTTP alternate. It is also the default for several debugging proxies, so addresses here are often development tooling that was left exposed.
Every check is a real connection
HProxy does not read this address off somebody else's list and pass it on. Each check opens an actual connection to 72.56.114.56:8888 and waits up to 4 seconds for the other end to complete a proxy handshake. 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.
476 checks, 222 answered
That is 47% of the time, measured since July 15, 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. 72.56.114.56:8888 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 24 hours. Its last check was on August 6, 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.
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The record
Everything HProxy holds on 72.56.114.56:8888, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- July 15, 2026
- Last checked
- August 6, 2026
- Next check due
- within 24 hours
- Checks run
- 476
- Times it answered
- 222
- Stopped answering
- July 19, 2026
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answered 222 of 476 checks
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Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 20 other free proxies on TWC EU, and 308 in Germany. 72.56.114.56:8888 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are.
What HProxy holds on TWC-EU
Open proxies are not spread evenly across the internet. They cluster, because one misconfigured template, one cheap hosting reseller or one leaked image tends to produce hundreds of identical machines on the same network. HProxy tracks 392 addresses on AS210976, which is 0.07% of every address in the database and a small corner of the database. 36 of them are answering right now, so if this particular address is not usable, the network is a reasonable place to look for one that is.
- Answering now9%
- Answered before41%
- Never answered49%
Questions about 72.56.114.56:8888
Is 72.56.114.56:8888 a working proxy?
No, not any more. It was a working public proxy in HProxy's free pool and has since gone dark, last listed 2026-07-19. We still re-test it periodically in case it returns.
Was 72.56.114.56 ever actually a proxy?
Yes. We ran 476 checks against it and it answered 222 of them, about 47% of the time, over 4 days on our list.
Where was 72.56.114.56 hosted?
Germany, TWC-EU (AS210976). It is a residential or ISP address rather than a datacenter one.
Why keep a page for an address that no longer works?
Because "was this address ever a proxy, and when" is a real question. If you are looking at this IP in a firewall log or an abuse report, the dates and the check counts here are the answer. HProxy's public proxy IP list keeps every address it has ever tracked and carries on re-testing them, so deleting this record would throw all of that away.
How many free proxies are on TWC EU?
20 other free proxies are live on TWC EU (AS210976) in our pool right now, alongside 72.56.114.56:8888. Networks that host one open proxy usually host several, which is why the whole AS is worth browsing rather than just this address.
Are there other free proxies in Germany?
Yes, 308 free proxies are exiting from Germany in our pool right now, answering in 1704ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
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About this list & IP removal
Every proxy here is aggregated from publicly available sources. We do not scan or collect these IP addresses ourselves: we verify entries that are already public (live status, latency, uptime) and store nothing else about the devices behind them. The list is provided as-is, with no warranty, for lawful use only, on the basis of our legitimate interest in a free, transparent proxy directory (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Never route passwords or sensitive data through a public proxy. If an IP address is yours and you'd like it removed, email legal@hproxy.com and we'll take it down (Art. 21 GDPR). Full details on the report abuse page.