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On July 2 the FBI and IRS-CI put a seizure banner on netnut.com and named the NetNut residential proxy platform, its administrators, and its subscribers. We verified both domains, read the primary sources, and pulled out the one word every proxy buyer should notice.
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Compare residential proxy providers using real benchmark data. Success rates, latency, geo-accuracy, and pricing for IPRoyal, FleetProxy, GonzoProxy.
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9Proxy went offline on June 28. A competitor's blog called it a seizure. The registry records, the company's own posts, and what real proxy takedowns look like tell a different story.
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The cheapest residential proxy I test ($0.30/GB) holds the top composite score, beating providers that cost 20x more. In residential proxies, price barely predicts quality, and the data below shows why the two are decoupled.
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Session reliability is the percentage of sticky proxy sessions that keep the same exit IP from first request to last. Across the residential providers I benchmark, it ranges from 97.5% to 72.2%, and that gap decides whether your login flows work or break. Most 'top 10 proxy' lists never measure it.
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Methodology v2.1: I Audited My Own Composite Formula. Here's What I Fixed
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At the end of January 2026, a lot of people using cheap residential proxies ran into serious trouble. Clients stopped connecting, websites wouldn't load, dashboards became unreachable, and support either went quiet or gave generic replies. The reason soon became clear: Google had hit IPIDEA, one of the largest residential proxy infrastructures in the world.
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