Hinky’s Proxy Obsession

I queried the database for the number of new proxies discovered over the last twelve months & came up with the chart below.

I almost forgot about the Koobface Flood, but there it is!  Those were the days, boys and girls.

“New proxies” are not necessarily “live proxies”.  They are IP address/port combinations that weren’t already in the database.  99.9% of “new” proxies are dead proxies, but this does give you an idea of what’s out there on the various proxy lists across the Web.

This really doesn’t show how bad the proxy business has been lately.  I haven’t run the numbers on the Gold database yet, but I’m working on it.