Classifieds by city
Ninth among all sites in Iraq and first in shopping. Count ads and track asking prices per city or neighbourhood; leave out sellers’ names and phone numbers.
Iraq proxies for OpenSooq, Miswag and iqcars data, from Basra to Erbil
135K+ residential IPs in the pool, October 2026, on the fixed and mobile networks Iraqi households use: Earthlink, HulumTele, KNET, Zain Iraq and Newroz. Residential traffic costs as little as $1.69 per GB and mobile $2.19. Baghdad, Mosul and seven more cities have keys of their own, where available, as do three governorates; -cc-iq alone returns an exit anywhere in Iraq.
Residential IPs135K+
Iraqi household addresses in the pool, October 2026.
City keys9
Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, Erbil, Kirkuk, Najaf, Karbala, Sulaymaniyah and Duhok, where available, plus three governorate keys.
Sticky sessions6 h
One Iraqi exit holds for up to 6 hours when the login carries a session key and -time-21600; the shortest setting is 60 seconds. Without a session key, each request gets a new exit.
IPv6-capable users1.35%
APNIC’s figure for Iraq on 28 October 2026, against 43.93% worldwide. Asiacell’s two networks, at 27.64% and 29.84%, are the exception.
Products
What each proxy type offers in Iraq
| Proxy | In Iraq | Session | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 135K+ IPs in the pool, October 2026, on Iraqi home connections | Rotating, or sticky up to 6 h | $3.49 → $1.69 per GB |
| Mobile | Zain Iraq and Asiacell networks, where the pool has exits on them; the order page shows availability | Rotating, or sticky up to 6 h | $3.99 → $2.19 per GB |
| ISP | Static IPs, one customer each; availability by country on the order page | Static for the rental | $2.00 per IP / month |
| Datacenter | Dedicated IPs, up to 10 Gbps; availability by country on the order page | Static | $1.20 per IP / month |
Use cases
Classifieds by city and marketplace prices in dinars
OpenSooq’s Iraqi home page groups car ads by city, Basra, Baghdad, Karbala and Najaf among them, and names neighbourhoods such as Mansour, Karadah and Dora, so asking prices can be followed place by place. In September 2026 the site was the ninth most visited in Iraq and came first in Similarweb’s Iraqi shopping and classifieds categories.
Places two to five in Iraqi e-commerce belong to foreign stores: AliExpress, amazon.com, amazon.ae and Alibaba. Miswag delivers to every governorate, takes cash on delivery and prices in dinars; on 29 October 2026 it listed an iPhone 18 Pro Max from 2,580,000 IQD across 13 stores. The delivery app Toters heads the restaurants and delivery category.
Google handled 99.69% of Iraqi searches in September 2026 (StatCounter), so rank checks for Iraq can stay on Google, with gl=iq. Phones accounted for 87.59% of page views that month, a share that swings: 57.16% in August, 53.81% in February. Android ran 86.39% of mobile traffic and Chrome 83.61% of all browsing, so start device tests with Chrome on an Android phone.
Coverage
Baghdad, Basra, Mosul, Erbil and five more city keys
The November 2024 census counted 46,118,793 people, 70.2% of them in urban areas. Three governorates have keys: -st-baghdad, -st-basragovernorate, spelt with the word governorate, and -st-najaf. Six more are reached through their main city’s key, such as -city-mosul for Nineveh.
| Governorate | People, 2024 census | Main city, urban population | Mobile lines, 2024 | Keys |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baghdad | 9,780,429 | Baghdad, counted by district | 8,317,666 | -st-baghdad · -city-baghdad |
| Nineveh | 4,261,980 | Mosul 1,529,384 | 2,802,838 | -city-mosul |
| Basra | 3,664,168 | Basra 1,293,052 | 2,736,419 | -st-basragovernorate · -city-basra |
| Erbil | 2,517,534 | Erbil 1,001,219 | 3,200,573 | -city-erbil |
| Dhi Qar | 2,499,468 | Nasiriyah 704,976 | 2,267,606 | No key |
| Babil | 2,482,324 | Hillah 470,917 | 2,174,385 | No key |
| Sulaymaniyah | 2,401,724 | Sulaymaniyah 828,850 | 2,298,474 | -city-sulaymaniyah |
| Kirkuk | 2,034,627 | Kirkuk 1,249,197 | 1,631,246 | -city-kirkuk |
| Najaf | 1,950,833 | Najaf 830,664 | 2,054,315 | -st-najaf · -city-najaf |
| Karbala | 1,754,065 | Karbala 784,219 | 1,710,384 | -city-karbala |
| Duhok | 1,599,871 | Duhok 452,967 | 1,715,761 | -city-duhok |
Census: COSIT, Annual Statistical Abstract 2024–2025. A main city’s figure is the urban population of its district centre. Halabja, voted the 19th governorate in 2025, is still counted inside Sulaymaniyah. Mobile lines: the Communications and Media Commission (CMC), in the same abstract; Erbil has 1.27 per resident, Iraq 0.87. Towns without a key, such as Zakho, Tikrit, Samarra, Fallujah, Ramadi and Kut, also supply exits.
Networks
Fibre and wireless ISPs ahead of the mobile operators
APNIC Labs places most Iraqi internet users on fixed providers, fibre and fixed wireless, and fewer on the mobile operators’ own networks: Earthlink alone reaches 31.75%. A lookup of an Iraqi exit, home line or phone, will usually show one of these.
| Network | Access | ASN | Share of Iraqi users | IPv6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Earthlink | Fibre and wireless | AS199739 | 31.75% | 0.56% |
| HulumTele | Access and transit | AS203214 | 21.85% | 0.07% |
| KNET | Fixed, Kurdistan Region | AS206206 | 7.54% | 0.08% |
| Zain Iraq | Mobile | AS59588 | 7.03% | 0.07% |
| Newroz Telecom | Fixed and wireless, Kurdistan Region | AS21277 | 5.51% | 0.04% |
| NBTEL | Wireless ISP | AS208324 | 5.44% | 0.06% |
| SuperCell | Fibre to the home | AS209193 | 3.7% | 0.09% |
| Korek | Mobile | AS59625 | 3.49% | 0.04% |
| Horizon Scope (Zain Iraq) | ISP | AS211908 | 3.24% | 0.07% |
| Asiacell | Mobile | AS215597 · AS51684 | 2.13% | 27.64% · 29.84% |
Share of users: APNIC Labs, 27 October 2026. APNIC sizes every network separately, so its Iraqi figures add up to about 131% and work as relative weights. IPv6: APNIC, 30 days to 28 October 2026. Horizon Scope is Zain Iraq’s ICT division (PeeringDB). The CMC counted 40,181,329 mobile lines on Zain, Asiacell and Korek in 2024. In June 2026 it ordered Korek to halt operations over unpaid licence debts, a decision Korek called unlawful; APNIC still saw 3.49% of Iraqi users on Korek on 27 October. Smaller ISPs behind Iraqi exits include IQ Online, ScopeSky, Al-Jazeera Al-Arabiya, Iraq Cell and Tishknet.
Local targets
Iraqi sites and what to collect from them
Marketplace prices in dinars
Nationwide delivery and several stores per product. Record the lowest price, the number of stores and the instalment price of each item.
Car listings
Third in Similarweb’s Iraqi vehicles category. Local asking prices to set beside OpenSooq’s car ads.
Imported goods
Third and fourth in Iraqi e-commerce. Prices and delivery offers as a visitor in Iraq sees them.
Cross-border offers
Second and fifth in the same ranking. Unit prices and shipping costs quoted for Iraq on the goods you sell or import.
Iraqi search
Nearly every Iraqi search goes to Google. Check rankings from an Iraqi exit with gl=iq and hl=ar. Rank-check guide.
Ranks: Similarweb, Iraq, September 2026; Miswag prices read on 29 October 2026. Use pages that need no account, under each site’s terms.
For developers
A Basra exit, confirmed by country and city
Add the governorate key where one exists and the city key every time. ipinfo.io prints Basra city as Basrah and Duhok as Dihok, so the code checks the country, then compares the city with its own table of lookup names.
import requests, uuid
GATE = "gate.aeonproxy.com:7000"
# city key -> the city name ipinfo.io prints: Basra comes back as "Basrah", Duhok as "Dihok"
CITY = {"baghdad": "Baghdad", "basra": "Basrah", "mosul": "Mosul", "erbil": "Erbil", "kirkuk": "Kirkuk",
"najaf": "Najaf", "karbala": "Karbala", "sulaymaniyah": "Sulaymaniyah", "duhok": "Dihok"}
# only three governorates take a -st- key; the other cities go by city key alone
GOVERNORATE = {"baghdad": "baghdad", "basra": "basragovernorate", "najaf": "najaf"}
def iraqi_exit(city, tries=6):
region = GOVERNORATE.get(city)
st = f"-st-{region}" if region else ""
for _ in range(tries):
sid = uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]
proxy = f"http://ap_a1b2c3-cc-iq{st}-city-{city}-sid-{sid}-time-21600:PASS@{GATE}"
try:
geo = requests.get("https://ipinfo.io/json", proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy}, timeout=20).json()
except requests.RequestException:
continue # no answer: open a new session
if geo.get("country") != "IQ":
continue # the country is checked first
if geo.get("city") == CITY.get(city):
return proxy, geo # the same exit for up to 6 hours
return None, None
proxy, geo = iraqi_exit("basra")
if proxy:
print(geo["ip"], geo["city"], geo["region"], geo["org"])
# org names the registered company, e.g. Zain Iraq's mobile network prints as
# "AS59588 Al Atheer Telecommunication-Iraq Co. Ltd. Incorporated in Cayman Islands"Governorate keys: -st-baghdad, -st-basragovernorate, -st-najaf. City keys: -city-baghdad, -city-basra, -city-mosul, -city-erbil, -city-kirkuk, -city-najaf, -city-karbala, -city-sulaymaniyah, -city-duhok. To sort Iraqi exits by network, read the ASN in the org field, such as AS199739 for Earthlink or AS59588 for Zain Iraq; Iraqi logins have no ISP or carrier key; those exist for US, UK and German exits.
# an Erbil exit, held for 30 minutes
curl -x gate.aeonproxy.com:7000 \
-U "ap_a1b2c3-cc-iq-city-erbil-sid-erb01-time-1800:PASS" \
https://ipinfo.io/jsonAn Iraqi quirk
Exam mornings in 2026, when Iraqi exits went offline
On national exam days between 20 May and 28 September 2026, the government suspended internet access for 50 to 90 minutes each morning, and Internet Society Pulse recorded each cut as a national shutdown. Iraqi exits, ours too, can go offline in such windows, so schedule jobs and long sticky sessions outside them.
Middle school exams, first round
Announced by the Ministry of Communications on 19 May. Access stopped from 06:00 to 07:30 Baghdad time (03:00 to 04:30 UTC) on exam days, among them 20 and 24 May and 2 June, until the round ended on 14 June.
Vocational school exams, first round
The same 06:00–07:30 window, on 13 and 24 June and 1 July among other days, until 4 July. A cut expected on 28 July did not show in traffic data.
Public school exams, late summer
A shorter window, 06:20 to 07:10, on 26, 27, 29, 30 and 31 August and on 1 to 3 and 5 to 10 September.
Special round
Two more 50-minute cuts, on 26 and 28 September.
Dates and hours: Internet Society Pulse, read 29 October 2026, which counts 29 Iraqi shutdowns in the preceding 12 months.
Personal data, the cybercrime bill and blocking orders in Iraq
Iraq has no data-protection law, and we found no personal-data bill before parliament in 2025 or 2026. A cybercrime bill of 32 articles, covering unlawful access, electronic blackmail and fraud, had its first reading in parliament in July 2026 and is waiting for a second. Rudaw’s report on the bill mentions neither proxies nor VPNs.
No Iraqi law or CMC regulation we know of names proxies or VPNs. Network cuts and blocks have come through government orders: the exam-morning shutdowns, and a Telegram block that the Ministry of Communications lifted on 13 August 2023 after Telegram undertook to identify those who had leaked citizens’ data. Sites and services blocked by an Iraqi order are not supported targets on AeonProxy.
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Iraq proxy questions
One whose exit sits inside Iraq, for when a site has to see an Iraqi visitor: OpenSooq asking prices by city, dinar prices on Miswag, Google results for Baghdad or Erbil, or your own site as people in Iraq get it.
135K+ residential IPs in the pool, October 2026, counting residential exits only. Mobile has no Iraqi count, and the order page shows whether Zain Iraq and Asiacell exits are available.
Yes, where available, with nine city keys: -city-baghdad, -city-basra, -city-mosul, -city-erbil, -city-kirkuk, -city-najaf, -city-karbala, -city-sulaymaniyah and -city-duhok. Baghdad, Basra and Najaf also have governorate keys. Before relying on an exit’s city, look it up in our IP checker: geolocation databases can place the same address in different cities.
Erbil, Sulaymaniyah and Duhok have city keys, usable where available; their governorates have none. The region’s main fixed networks, KNET and Newroz Telecom, reach 13.05% of Iraqi users between them in APNIC’s count.
Earthlink and HulumTele above all, with 31.75% and 21.85% of Iraqi users in APNIC’s estimate, then KNET, Zain Iraq, Newroz, NBTEL and SuperCell; the exits are homes and phones on these networks. Lookups name Zain Iraq as Al Atheer Telecommunication-Iraq. Only US, UK and German logins can choose a network by key.
In Iraq, residential exits are mostly fixed lines and mobile exits run on Zain Iraq or Asiacell. Rotating residential covers OpenSooq and Miswag prices and Google checks; mobile, $0.50 per GB dearer at every tier, suits app and phone-page tests, and 4G covered 98.0% of the population in 2024 (CMC). An ISP proxy keeps one static address for your own accounts, within platform rules; the order page shows Iraqi stock.
On national exam days in 2026 the government cut internet access across Iraq: 06:00 to 07:30 Baghdad time between 20 May and 1 July, then 06:20 to 07:10 from 26 August to 10 September and on 26 and 28 September. No Iraqi exit carries traffic in those windows, so schedule morning jobs after them.
Iraq has no data-protection law, and proxies and VPNs appear in no Iraqi law or CMC rule we know of; a cybercrime bill had its first reading in parliament in July 2026. Anything blocked by an Iraqi order is off limits on AeonProxy. Not legal advice.
Look up the network of a free “Iraqi” proxy first: APNIC’s Iraqi table includes Cloudflare at 0.82% of users, and an address on that network is a Cloudflare server. Whoever runs it sees your traffic and can store it, and it should never carry your passwords.
The username carries the targeting: ap_a1b2c3-cc-iq for any Iraqi exit, with city or session keys after it. Enter it and your password in a browser extension, app or HTTP client pointed at gate.aeonproxy.com, port 7000; the docs cover each client. The pricing page has current free-trial terms.