Proxy IP Claims vs the IPv4 Registry

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✓ checked 8 October 2026 · sources: NRO combined RIR delegation file dated 8 October 2026, provider country pages captured 2 October 2026 (from our residential IP supply study), World Bank internet-user estimates · method · caveats · download the data

Proxy providers advertise how many IP addresses they can offer in each country. We compared those numbers with the IPv4 addresses the five regional internet registries have actually handed out to each country. In most rich countries the claims are a small slice of the address space. In several countries with few IPv4 addresses, they’re larger than the country’s entire allocation.

Read this first. A provider’s advertised count isn’t defined the same way as a registry count. Providers don’t say whether they count IPv6, how long a period they count over, or how they decide which country an address is in. A count above the registry total doesn’t by itself show that a claim is wrong. It shows that the two numbers measure different things, and buyers should ask what the advertised figure counts.

IPv4 addresses delegated worldwide 3,687,561,632countries where a claim exceeds the registry total 4 of 41largest US claim, share of US IPv4 1.2%

Headline numbers

1. In 4 of the 41 countries we checked, at least one provider advertises more IPs than the registries have assigned to the whole country. 6 provider claims in total exceed the country’s registered IPv4 count.
2. Iraq has 451,648 registered IPv4 addresses. SOAX advertises 2,746,200 Iraqi IPs, 608.0% of that total. Oxylabs advertises 710,365.
3. Uzbekistan: 335,104 registered addresses, largest claim 974,520 (290.8%). Bangladesh: 2,084,672, largest claim 2,844,753 (136.5%). Pakistan: 5,620,736, largest claim 7,612,080 (135.4%).
4. The US holds 1,606,182,560 IPv4 addresses, 43.6% of everything delegated. The largest US claim we captured, 19,380,480 from Oxylabs, is 1.2% of that.
5. Address supply per person varies enormously. The US has 4.99 registered IPv4 addresses per internet user; India has 0.04 (42,014,464 addresses for about 1,024,705,867 users). In 11 of the 41 countries there is less than one address for every ten internet users, so most users there can’t have a public IPv4 address of their own; many share addresses through carrier-grade NAT or use IPv6.
6. In 19 countries the largest claim is at least a quarter of all registered addresses.
7. Global totals are big too. Bright Data advertises 400,000,000+ IPs worldwide, equal to 10.8% of all delegated IPv4 addresses (providers don’t say how much of a pool is IPv6).

Largest claims against registry totals

Claims above the registry total

• Iraq: SOAX advertises 2,746,200 IPs; 451,648 IPv4 addresses are registered to the country.
• Iraq: Oxylabs advertises 710,365 IPs; 451,648 IPv4 addresses are registered to the country.
• Uzbekistan: SOAX advertises 974,520 IPs; 335,104 IPv4 addresses are registered to the country.
• Bangladesh: Oxylabs advertises 2,844,753 IPs; 2,084,672 IPv4 addresses are registered to the country.
• Bangladesh: SOAX advertises 2,596,440 IPs; 2,084,672 IPv4 addresses are registered to the country.
• Pakistan: SOAX advertises 7,612,080 IPs; 5,620,736 IPv4 addresses are registered to the country.

Why could a count be higher than the registry total? Providers don’t say, so we can only list possibilities. An advertised pool may include IPv6 addresses. It may count every address seen over weeks or months, which in mobile networks can change often. And it may place addresses by geolocation, which can put an address registered in one country in another.

All 41 countries

For how these claims compare with internet users and broadband lines, and how each provider’s figures are worded, see Residential IP Supply by Country. For the apps that supply home connections to proxy networks, see The Home-Internet Supply Chain.

Method

Registry. The NRO’s combined extended delegation file (nro-delegated-stats, dated 2026-10-08, MD5 checked against the published checksum), which merges the AFRINIC, APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC and RIPE NCC files. We summed IPv4 address counts with status “assigned” or “allocated” by country code. Reserved (603,854,560) and available (3,551,104) space is excluded.

Claims. The country-level IP counts captured from provider websites on 2 October 2026 for our residential IP supply study, after the 8 October correction to Bright Data’s figures (residential counter only). For each provider and country we use the largest figure shown. SOAX’s country pages don’t separate residential from mobile IPs.

Internet users. World Bank (ITU) estimates, latest year available, as used in the earlier study.

Verification. A separate script re-parses the raw NRO file and the saved claims, recomputes every number and checks the page against them.

Caveats

• A registry assigns addresses to an organisation in a country; it doesn’t record where each address is used.
• Not all assigned addresses are in use, and some are used for servers rather than homes.
• Provider figures are marketing claims captured on one day and may change; we didn’t test any provider’s network.
• IPv6 isn’t included on the registry side because IPv6 address counts are astronomically large and not comparable.

Download the data

• Claims vs registry (CSV): every provider claim for the 41 countries, with the country’s registered IPv4 count, internet users and the claim as a share of registered IPv4.

Cite as: ProxyPicker, “Proxy IP Claims vs the IPv4 Registry”, 8 October 2026, https://proxypicker.com/proxy-ips-vs-ipv4-registry/. Registry data: Number Resource Organization. Internet users: World Bank, CC BY 4.0.

Related: Residential IP Supply by Country · The Home-Internet Supply Chain · NetNut, 98 Days After the FBI Seizure · IPv4 Address Transfers, 2012–2026.

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