What 360Proxy actually was
360Proxy appeared around 2022 and competed almost entirely on price. It advertised a large residential pool covering most countries, supported HTTP/HTTPS and SOCKS5, and let you filter exit IPs by country, city, postcode and ISP. Authentication could be by username and password or by IP whitelist, and there was a Windows client that presented the pool as a list of individual addresses you could bind to local ports — the pattern familiar to anyone who has used a "S5 client" style provider.
Its product line-up was broader than a single per-GB tap. Alongside rotating residential traffic sold by the gigabyte, it sold static residential and ISP addresses priced per IP per day or per month, and time-based plans that bundled unlimited traffic for a fixed period. That mix is what made it popular with antidetect-browser and multi-account users, who care more about holding one clean address for a while than about a per-GB rate. It did not run a 4G/5G mobile network.
The brand was renamed Cherry Proxy in September 2024, though the original domain and Trustpilot listing stayed in use, which is why the two names appear interchangeably in reviews. Corporate details in public directories were thin and inconsistent — not unusual in this part of the market. Recurring complaints in third-party reviews were geo-targeting that returned an IP in the wrong city or state, sticky sessions that did not hold, and slow support after purchase. Set against that, the price was genuinely low and the country coverage genuinely wide.
The January 2026 disruption, stated plainly
On 29 January 2026 Google's Threat Intelligence Group published an account of a disruption action against IPIDEA, a residential proxy operator, executed with US court orders that removed a set of associated domains from the internet. Google's published brand list named 360proxy.com and cherryproxy.com among the domains involved, alongside a number of other proxy and VPN brands. Reporting at the time put the reduction in the underlying device pool in the millions.
We are not in a position to characterise the company's conduct or its customers', and nothing here should be read as doing so. What we can state is checkable: as at the time of writing, neither 360proxy.com nor cherryproxy.com returns an A record from public resolvers. In practice that means no dashboard, no credential rotation, no top-up and no support channel through the front door, which is why most people reading this page are here.
One detail from the same reporting is worth carrying forward when you shop for a replacement. The monetisation SDKs that fed the pool remain installed on enrolled devices, so cheap successor brands can appear quickly on largely the same infrastructure. A very low headline rate and a familiar-looking dashboard are not evidence of an independent network.
- Whether your existing gateway hostnames still resolve and still pass traffic
- Whether any prepaid balance or unexpired static IPs are still reachable in an account you can log into
- Who actually operates the network behind a replacement brand, not just who sells it
- Whether the replacement publishes a real company identity and jurisdiction
- Whether your security or compliance team needs a record of which provider your egress traffic used, and when
What to do if 360Proxy still passes traffic
There is no urgency to rip anything out on the day it still works. If you have a gateway that resolves and credentials that authenticate, finish the job in front of you. The sensible move is to treat the setup as end-of-life rather than broken: stop topping it up, stop building new workflows against it, and keep a second provider configured and tested so a failure is a config change rather than an outage.
Where honesty matters: Nefo cannot replace every part of what 360Proxy sold. If your work depends on holding one static ISP or static residential address, Nefo sells those: dedicated IPs in 24 countries, rented for 7 to 360 days from $1.76 for 7 days. If your economics depend on an unlimited-traffic time plan for rotating residential, Nefo does not sell that, and you should look at providers that do rather than force a bad fit. Say so up front and it saves you a wasted migration.
How Nefo differs from 360Proxy, and where it is narrower
The clearest structural difference is the commercial model. On the residential side, Nefo sells prepaid bandwidth rather than subscription tiers or unlimited-traffic period plans. It also sells fixed-address products elsewhere in the catalogue, including static residential ISP IPs rented by the day. You buy gigabytes, they sit in the account until used, and generating credentials costs nothing. There is no renewal date to defend and no plan to downgrade if a project pauses.
The second difference is the shape of the targeting. Nefo covers 227 countries, resolves most of them down to state or region and city, and lets you pin a specific ASN or ISP within a country. That is a different axis from 360Proxy's postcode filter — more precise about which network the exit sits on, less granular about the postal geography.
The third is mobile. Nefo runs a separate 4G/5G product: a port on a real carrier modem with one live carrier IP, rotated on demand or on a timer, with US state and carrier targeting, rented by duration from hours to thirty days rather than by the gigabyte. 360Proxy had no equivalent. If you were using its static residential addresses as a stand-in for a mobile IP, this is the closer analogue, though it is a different kind of address and behaves differently.
- Nefo does not offer unlimited-bandwidth time-based plans
- Authentication is by username and password or by IP allowlist, on every protocol
- Postcode-level targeting is not available; the equivalents are state, city and ASN/ISP within a country
- Sticky sessions hold for up to 24 hours, not for days or weeks
How to buy and use Nefo proxies
The smallest purchase is 5GB ($4.50, or $0.90/GB) and the per-GB rate falls as volume rises, so a genuine evaluation costs a few dollars rather than a monthly commitment. Flexible plans are non-expiring: unused bandwidth stays in the account. Credentials are created in the web dashboard rather than picked from a desktop IP list, and you can generate as many as you like — only traffic through them draws down the balance, so per-project or per-client credentials cost nothing to maintain.
Each credential is configured at creation: protocol (HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5), location, and session behaviour. Rotating gives a new IP per request for wide distributed collection. Sticky holds the same IP from one minute to 24 hours, which covers logins, carts, checkout paths and anything else that breaks when the address changes mid-flow. Usage is tracked per credential in the dashboard, which is the practical way to attribute spend across jobs.
We publish no pool size, no uptime figure and no average response time, because nothing we run measures them. What we can show is our own sampling: 440,652 unique residential exits in three days, more than 3,500,000 when the same sampler ran for fourteen. Test that against your own targets on the smallest order, 5GB.
- Prepaid from 5GB, non-expiring on flexible plans, top up at any time
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, with username and password or IP allowlist authentication
- 227 countries; state, city and ASN/ISP targeting in most countries
- Rotating per request, or sticky from 1 minute to 24 hours
- Unlimited free credentials; only traffic consumes bandwidth
- Separate 4G/5G mobile ports rented by duration, with US state and carrier targeting
How to move a 360Proxy integration to Nefo
Because both services speak standard HTTP/HTTPS and SOCKS5, most code changes are a host, port and credential swap. The place migrations usually snag is location syntax. If any part of your stack relied on IP whitelisting, Nefo supports an IP allowlist as well as username and password, so you add your IPs instead of reworking auth. And if you encoded geography as postcodes in your credential strings, those need remapping to country, state, city or ASN before anything will target correctly.
Sequence it so you can measure. Buy 5GB, generate one rotating and one sticky credential against your two most important target regions, and run the same job you ran on 360Proxy so you have a like-for-like comparison on success rate and block rate rather than a vendor claim. Non-expiring bandwidth means an evaluation you abandon for a fortnight is still there when you come back to it.
On fit: Nefo suits teams with variable or bursty volume, anyone who wants a small honest test before committing, work that needs precise US geography or a specific carrier ASN, and people who want mobile and residential from one account. It is the wrong choice if an unlimited-traffic period plan is what makes your economics work. If you rely on static ISP or static residential lines, Nefo's ISP proxies cover them, and its static IP proxies or IP Vault fit when a fixed address is enough; if you need the exact product 360Proxy sold, a provider whose product line matches yours will serve you better than a cheap migration that fights your architecture.
- Swap gateway host, port and credentials in your proxy configuration
- Re-add your IPs to the Nefo IP allowlist, or switch to username and password
- Remap postcode targeting to country, state/city, or ASN/ISP
- Recreate sticky sessions with an explicit duration, up to 24 hours
- Run one real job on 5GB and compare success and block rates before moving production
- Keep the old configuration in version control until the new one has run a full cycle
Frequently asked questions
As at the time of writing, 360proxy.com and cherryproxy.com return no DNS records from public resolvers, so the sites and dashboards are unreachable. Both were named in Google's 29 January 2026 announcement about IPIDEA. The company has issued no formal shutdown notice. Working gateways may still pass traffic temporarily, so verify directly.
No. Nefo has no commercial or technical relationship with 360Proxy and cannot see or honor a balance held there. Any remaining credit is between you and 360Proxy. Restarting on Nefo needs only the 5 GB minimum, which costs $4.50.
Yes. Nefo sells static residential ISP IPs on the ISP proxies page: dedicated addresses in 24 countries, rented for 7 to 360 days, from $1.76 for 7 days and $3.51 for 30 days, over HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 with a 100 GB per IP per 30 days fair-use limit. Sticky residential sessions (up to 24 hours) and IP Vault are other ways to keep an address. Confirm your country is among the 24 before you move.
Usually only the gateway host, port and credentials, since Nefo supports HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5. Two things need attention: authentication can be username and password or an IP allowlist, so a whitelist setup only needs your new IPs added, and postcode targeting must be remapped to country, state, city or ASN.
Yes. Buy 5 GB, generate credentials at no charge, and run your real job against your target regions. Flexible plans do not expire, and extra credentials never cost bandwidth, so you can test rotating and sticky behavior side by side within the same gigabyte.
Ask who operates the network, not only who sells the brand, because the monetization SDKs behind the IPIDEA pool stay installed on enrolled devices. Look for a named company, a matching product line and low-cost testing. See pricing.