If your NetNut proxies stopped working, it's not an outage you can wait out. On 3 July 2026 U.S. law enforcement seized NetNut's domains and infrastructure. This page explains what happened, and how to move your residential-proxy workloads to Roam in a few minutes — flat $2/GB, no subscription, balance never expires.
| Roam | NetNut | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Live & operating | Seized by FBI / DOJ, 3 Jul 2026 |
| Rotating residential | $2/GB flat, pay-as-you-go | Unavailable |
| Network model | Commercial pay-as-you-go pool | Consumer-device pool via hidden SDKs (per investigators) |
| Contract | No subscription, no monthly fee | — |
| Balance | Never expires | — |
| Setup | Username-string params: country, session, rotation | Username-string params (same style) |
| Also on the same wallet | Datacenter $0.80/GB · Mobile 4G/5G $9/GB · Static residential $4/IP/mo | — |
| Free trial | 300MB free | — |
NetNut status and network details per the DOJ seizure notice and security reporting (July 2026). Roam pricing as listed on roamproxy.com; always confirm current rates.
No minimum plan. Top up whatever you want to test with — the balance never expires, so there's no pressure to spend it by a cycle date.
Point your client at Roam's residential gateway and drop in your new username and password in place of NetNut's.
Roam controls country, sticky vs rotating, and session lifetime through the username string — the same pattern you used with NetNut, so most integrations need only a credentials-and-endpoint change.
Run your real targets on the free trial to confirm success rates before you commit spend. When you're happy, you're already live at $2/GB.
NetNut disappeared with no notice. Roam is a commercial, pay-as-you-go service — the kind of network you can build a pipeline on without a takedown risk hanging over it.
NetNut was seized precisely because of how it obtained residential IPs. Roam does not monetize hidden SDKs on strangers' phones. If sourcing wasn't on your checklist before, it is now.
Flat $2/GB, no subscription, balance never expires. If Roam ever stops earning your traffic, you walk with your remaining balance intact.
Plenty of NetNut's customers used it for ordinary, legitimate work — price monitoring, ad verification, market research. The seizure was about how the network was built and who else used it, not about you. Roam exists to give that legitimate workload a stable home.
On 3 July 2026 the FBI, DOJ and IRS Criminal Investigation — with Google, Lumen and the Shadowserver Foundation — seized NetNut and hundreds of its domains. NetNut, operated by Alarum Technologies and tracked as the “Popa” botnet, ran a residential proxy network built on roughly two million consumer devices co-opted through hidden SDKs. Its domains now display a government seizure notice and the service is offline.
Treat it as gone. This was a coordinated seizure of domains and infrastructure, not a temporary outage. If you relied on NetNut for residential traffic, you need a different provider now.
Roam uses the same username-string convention NetNut users know — credentials plus parameters for country, session type and rotation, pointed at Roam's gateway. Create an account, top up any amount, swap your endpoint and credentials, and your existing rotating or sticky-session logic keeps working. The 300MB free trial lets you validate targets before paying.
Roam is a commercial pay-as-you-go residential proxy service at a flat $2/GB with no subscription and a balance that never expires. It is not a consumer-device botnet monetized through hidden SDKs — the model that led to NetNut's seizure. That difference is the reason to switch.
Sign up in seconds, test your targets on real residential IPs with 300MB free, and only pay for what you use. $2/GB, forever-valid balance.