Research traffic should not announce who is doing the research
Proxies for threat intelligence and security research
Phishing kits and malicious ad chains read the visitor's network first, and anything that looks like a security vendor or a cloud host gets a clean decoy instead of the payload. ZapIP routes sandboxes, crawlers and verification jobs through consent-sourced residential exits, so what you capture is what the target was meant to receive.
- 195 countries and regions
- HTTP(S) and SOCKS5
- Auditable IP sourcing
- Sub-account isolation
How it works
See the payload the target was meant to get
Phishing pages and malvertising chains profile the visitor's network before they commit: recognise a security vendor, a cloud host or a corporate range and they return a harmless decoy, and the sample never lands. A residential exit puts the sandbox or crawler in an ordinary user's network position, and country- or city-level targeting reproduces campaigns that were only ever delivered to one region.
- Reproduce geo-targeted delivery by country, city or ASN
- 195 countries and regions, including non-English campaigns
- HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 for sandboxes and headless browsers
- Rotation 1–360 minutes, sticky sessions up to 120
How it works
Look at your own estate from outside
What the estate looks like from inside the network is never what it looks like from the internet. Reaching your own domains and applications through residential exits in different countries verifies that geo-blocking, WAF rules, CDN delivery and login risk controls actually fire the way the config says they do — particularly the rules that only trigger in one country.
- Confirm geo-restrictions really apply in the target country
- Check WAF and rate-limit rules for false positives on residential traffic
- Verify what content and consent notices each region receives
- For assets you own or are explicitly authorised to test
How it works
Sourcing and usage both have to be explainable
When a security team buys proxy capacity, compliance will ask where the addresses come from. ZapIP sources residential IPs from channels where the household gave explicit, informed consent; the chain is auditable, and no botnet or malware-derived nodes are used. The boundary on the other side is written into the acceptable use policy, so both ends of the question have a document behind them.
- Consent-based acquisition with an auditable sourcing chain
- The AUP prohibits DDoS, phishing, carding and unauthorised intrusion
- Sub-accounts isolate usage per project or team
- Violations end the service immediately, without refund
Coverage
One network behind all four products — changing the billing model does not change how you connect or how you target.
All 33 markets- 195 countries & regions
- Available
- All 50 US states
- Available
- City-level targeting
- Precise
- ISP & ASN targeting
- Supported
4 billing models
How this is billed
All four billing models share one network. Short bursts go per GB, pipelines that run continuously go per Mbps, and anything tied to an account identity goes per IP-day or per IP-month.
FAQ
Questions about this solution
Why does threat intelligence collection need residential proxies?
Because the other side profiles visitors too. Phishing sites, malicious ad chains and hosted panels routinely block cloud ranges and known vendor exits, returning a blank page or a decoy. A residential exit is what gets you the content that was actually distributed, and country- or city-level targeting is what reproduces a campaign aimed at one region only.
Can we use ZapIP for security testing, and where is the line?
Testing your own assets, or targets you hold written authorisation for, is fine. Unauthorised intrusion and scanning, DDoS, credential stuffing, phishing and carding are not, and the acceptable use policy says so plainly — violations end the account with no refund. Put simply: a proxy changes your network position, not the permission you need. If a scenario is ambiguous, email support@zapip.net before you wire it up.
Will it drop into our existing sandbox and collection stack?
Yes. HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 are both fully supported, with user:pass auth or an IP allowlist, plus an API for bulk allocation. The usual pieces — headless Chrome or Playwright, Scrapy, the egress side of a self-hosted sandbox, IOC enrichment pipelines — all take a standard proxy string, so nothing needs rewriting. Sub-accounts keep usage attributable per project.
Compliance will ask about IP provenance. What can you give us?
Every residential address comes from a channel where the household gave explicit, informed consent; the acquisition chain is documented and audited on an ongoing basis, and no botnet or malware-sourced nodes are used. The privacy policy, terms of service and acceptable use policy are all public. If procurement needs a deeper sourcing statement or a supplementary agreement, contact support@zapip.net.
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