Luna Proxy is offline: what happened
If you are looking for a Luna Proxy alternative in 2026, you are probably not comparing feature tables. You are looking for somewhere to send traffic that used to go through lunaproxy.com. That domain no longer resolves. In January 2026, Google's Threat Intelligence Group published an account of action it had taken against the IPIDEA residential proxy network and listed Luna Proxy (lunaproxy.com) among the brands it identified as connected to that network. The action included legal steps to take down control and routing domains. The reported effect, since confirmed by the sites simply not answering, is that Luna Proxy and several sibling brands stopped being reachable at the same time.
This page describes published facts rather than passing judgement on the people involved, and no charges had been announced at the time of writing. What matters operationally is narrower: credentials issued by that platform cannot be relied on, any integration still pointing at those endpoints needs re-pointing, and unused balances sit with a company whose site is down. Treat similarly named domains with ordinary caution — the original hostname does not resolve, so anything answering on a lookalike name is not a continuation you can verify.
- Google's Threat Intelligence Group named Luna Proxy (lunaproxy.com) in its January 2026 IPIDEA write-up.
- The lunaproxy.com domain returns NXDOMAIN — it does not resolve at all.
- Brands listed alongside it, including 360 Proxy, 922 Proxy, ABC Proxy, Cherry Proxy, IP2World, PIA S5 Proxy, PyProxy and TabProxy, were affected in the same action.
- No arrests or indictments had been announced when this page was written.
- Balances held on the platform are not recoverable through a normal support channel while the site is offline.
What Luna Proxy did well
It is worth being accurate about what you are replacing. Luna Proxy was a self-serve, budget-oriented provider with an unusually broad catalogue for its price point: rotating residential, static residential, ISP and datacenter proxies under one dashboard. Two things stood out. The first was short-duration unlimited-bandwidth residential plans, sold in terms as short as a day, which is rare in this market and genuinely useful for bursty jobs where per-GB metering gets expensive. The second was tooling aimed at non-developers — a multilingual dashboard, a desktop proxy manager application, IP-whitelist authentication alongside credentials, and an API for the people who wanted one.
Coverage was uneven. Independent testing consistently found stronger pools in South America and South Asia, Brazil and India in particular, and thinner coverage across several developed markets. Recurring user complaints centred on repeated IPs within a pool and on support responsiveness. The positioning was price-first: it competed on rate and plan flexibility rather than on published detail about how the pool was sourced, which was common at that end of the market.
What Nefo does not replace from Luna Proxy
Nefo replaces the rotating or sticky residential slice directly and now also covers static residential ISP IPs, datacenter proxies, fixed datacenter addresses, and a way to keep residential or mobile IPs for longer. If your Luna Proxy usage was static residential or ISP lines, check that your countries are among Nefo's 24 ISP countries before you start rewriting configuration.
Two cases where you should check carefully. First, if you were buying static residential or ISP addresses by the IP to hold long-lived identities, Nefo's ISP proxies are dedicated and rented for 7 to 360 days in 24 countries, with a 100 GB per IP per 30 days fair-use limit rather than unmetered traffic; IP Vault and static IP proxies are further options. Second, if you were running sustained, constant crawling where an unlimited term plan beat any per-GB rate, metered bandwidth may not be the cheaper model for you. Nefo does sell fixed-term endpoints, and not only on mobile: mobile ports are carrier-grade 4G/5G rented by duration with one live IP per port, while static IP proxies are fixed datacenter addresses rented per address for a period.
- Static residential ISP IPs are available in 24 countries only, with a 100 GB per IP per 30 days fair-use limit.
- No managed scraping API, web unlocker or hosted browser.
- No unlimited-bandwidth plans; residential traffic is metered per GB.
- No desktop proxy-manager application.
How Nefo residential proxies work
Nefo sells prepaid bandwidth rather than a subscription term. You buy from 5GB upwards, and flexible plans are non-expiring, so a paused project does not quietly burn a month of a plan. Generating credentials is free and only traffic consumes bandwidth, which means there is no reason not to issue a separate credential per target site, per country or per job and read usage against each one.
For login flows, cart and checkout paths, and anything multi-step, session behaviour matters more than headline pool figures. Each credential is set to rotate on every request or to hold the same IP for a fixed lifetime, anywhere from one minute up to 24 hours.
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, with username/password or IP allowlist authentication.
- 227 countries, with state or region and city targeting in most of them.
- ASN/ISP targeting — pin traffic to a specific carrier or cable/fibre operator within a country.
- Rotating sessions, or sticky sessions from 1 minute to 24 hours, configured per credential.
- Mobile 4G/5G ports on real carrier modems, rented by duration with US state and carrier targeting, if you need a real mobile IP.
How to migrate from Luna Proxy to Nefo
For a rotating residential workload the move is configuration, not architecture. The concepts carry across: you still authenticate with a username and password (or an IP allowlist) against a proxy endpoint, still choose a country, still choose between rotation and a held IP. What changes is the syntax and, more usefully, where geo and session settings live — on Nefo they are attached to the credential you generate rather than encoded into an in-band username string, so one credential means one fixed behaviour.
Budget deserves its own measurement pass. On an unlimited plan there was no reason to compress anything. Under metering there is: blocking images, fonts and media in a headless browser, or dropping to plain HTTP requests where the target allows it, usually changes bandwidth consumption by a larger factor than any difference in per-GB rate. Measure a representative job before concluding the metered model costs more.
- Replace endpoint host, port and credentials in your proxy config or secrets store.
- Move country, state, city and ASN selection out of username parameters and onto the generated credential.
- Re-express session behaviour as rotating, or as a sticky lifetime between 1 minute and 24 hours.
- If you connected by IP whitelist before, add your IPs to the Nefo IP allowlist, or switch to username/password.
- Re-baseline spend per GB instead of per term, using a measured sample rather than an estimate.
- Buy 5GB, run both paths against your real targets, and compare success rate and response time before moving production traffic.
How to choose a replacement proxy provider
What happened in January is a reasonable prompt to change how you pick a provider at all, whoever you end up with. Several of the brands named in that write-up presented themselves as independent competitors, which means a team running a primary and a fallback could have had both on the same underlying network without knowing it. That is worth checking whatever you choose.
Nefo is not the correct answer for every Luna Proxy workload, and the sections above say plainly which ones it is not. For rotating and sticky residential traffic with country, state, city and ASN targeting, the honest test is cheap: buy 5GB ($4.50), point it at the sites you actually care about, and read the success rate. That tells you more than any comparison page, including this one.
- Can you buy a small volume and test before any term commitment?
- Does the provider say where the company is established?
- Is there a published acceptable-use policy, and is it enforced? Nefo suspends accounts that breach it.
- Does your fallback provider run on a genuinely different network, or the same pool under another brand?
- Does a paused project cost you money? Non-expiring prepaid balances mean an outage or a quiet month does not expire your credit.
Frequently asked questions
No. The lunaproxy.com domain does not resolve, and Google named Luna Proxy among brands connected to the IPIDEA network it acted against in January 2026. Treat credentials and integrations pointing at those endpoints as permanently dead and re-point them rather than waiting for a recovery.
No, and be skeptical of any provider that claims it can, because no company can settle another company's ledger. Unused balances sit with a platform whose site is offline. Nefo starts at 5 GB and flexible plans are non-expiring, so a small test purchase is not wasted.
Yes. Nefo sells static residential ISP IPs (dedicated, 24 countries, 7 to 360 days from $1.76 for 7 days; see ISP proxies), datacenter proxies, static IP proxies and IP Vault addresses you keep for longer. Check that your country is among the 24 and that the 100 GB per IP per 30 days fair-use limit fits.
It depends on how constant your load is. Unlimited plans favor sustained heavy crawling, while per-GB favors bursty work because idle time costs nothing. Measure one representative job first. Blocking images, fonts and media in headless browsers often moves the total more than the rate does.
For rotating residential traffic, mostly configuration. The endpoint, port and credentials change, geo and session settings move onto the credential you generate, and an IP-whitelist setup carries over through Nefo's IP allowlist. Retry, backoff and rotation logic normally carries over.
Nefo covers 227 countries, state or region and city in most countries, and ASN or ISP within a country. Depth varies by country, so test your key markets on a 5 GB purchase. See residential proxies.