iBay, 50th by search traffic
Ahrefs Top ranks ibay.com.mv 50th in the Maldives for October 2026, by estimated search traffic. Its App Store text describes a community marketplace for cars, bikes, houses, phones, furniture and home services.
Maldives proxies for iBay listings, Asters prices and Job-Maldives vacancies, from Malé to Addu City
2K+ residential IPs in the pool, October 2026, on Dhiraagu and Ooredoo connections, with Raajjé Online and Satlink among the smaller ISPs. Residential traffic is $3.49 per GB and falls to $1.69 with volume; mobile goes from $3.99 to $2.19. Put -cc-mv in the login for a Maldivian exit; the dashboard generator lists the atolls and islands on offer.
Residential IPs2K+
Maldivian home connections in the pool, October 2026.
Users on Dhiraagu’s network55.18%
APNIC Labs’ estimate dated 1 November 2026, with Ooredoo at 37.35%.
Page views from phones73.97%
StatCounter, October 2026. Desktops had 25.32% and tablets 0.71%.
Longest sticky session6 h
Hold one Maldivian exit for 60 to 21600 seconds with -sid- and -time-. Leave them out and each request rotates.
Products
Maldives residential proxies and the other three types
| Proxy | In the Maldives | Session | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 2K+ residential IPs in the pool, October 2026, on Maldivian home connections | Rotating, or sticky up to 6 h | $3.49 → $1.69 per GB |
| Mobile | Dhiraagu and Ooredoo exits where the pool has 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 | $4.00 per IP / month |
| Datacenter | Dedicated IPs, up to 10 Gbps; availability by country on the order page | Static | $2.00 per IP / month |
Why the Maldives
Classified ads, rufiyaa shelf prices and resort jobs
Asters, second to Amazon in shopping
Astersonline.com is 36th overall and follows only amazon.com in the shopping list. TVs, air conditioners, furniture and phones carry rufiyaa prices, Rf6,499 or Rf12,999 for example.
Resort vacancies on Job-Maldives
Job-Maldives, 34th overall, leads the jobs and education filter. Openings appear by employer and department, such as Front Office or Food & Beverage, and its Top Employers list names resorts. Census 2022 put 10% of residents in resorts.
Phones on Google, desktops with Bing
Google answered 96.31% of Maldivian searches in October 2026 and 99.28% of those made on phones. On desktops Bing had 12.16% (StatCounter). Rank checks from a Maldivian IP are explained under SERP proxies.
Coverage
Malé, Addu City, Kulhudhuffushi and the next largest islands
The 2022 census counted 515,132 residents, 132,493 of them foreign, with 211,908 (41.14%) in the Malé area. Maldivian logins target the whole country through -cc-mv; for atolls and islands, see what the dashboard generator offers.
| Place | Atoll in the census | Region in GeoNames | Residents, 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Malé area | Maale | Male | 211,908 |
| Addu City | Addu (S) | Seenu | 25,062 |
| Kulhudhuffushi | South Thiladhunmathi (HDh) | Haa Dhaalu Atholhu | 10,131 |
| Fuvahmulah | Gnaviyani (Gn) | Gnyaviyani Atoll | 9,177 |
| Thinadhoo | South Huvadhu (GDh) | Gaafu Dhaalu Atoll | 6,217 |
| Naifaru | Faadhippolhu (Lh) | Faadhippolhu Atoll | 4,832 |
| Gamu | Hadhdhunmathi (L) | Laamu | 4,815 |
| Maafushi | Male’ Atoll (K) | Kaafu Atoll | 4,471 |
| Dhidhdhoo | North Thiladhunmathi (HA) | Haa Alifu Atholhu | 3,412 |
| Dhuvaafaru | North Maalhosmadulu (R) | Raa Atoll | 3,321 |
| Kudahuvadhoo | South Nilandhe (Dh) | Dhaalu Atholhu | 3,131 |
| Fonadhoo | Hadhdhunmathi (L) | Laamu | 2,986 |
Population: Maldives Bureau of Statistics, Census 2022, Table P3. Addu City adds six islands, of which Hithadhoo is the largest at 13,759. Inside the Malé area, Maafannu has 47,036 residents, Hulhumalé Phase 1 35,859, Henveiru 34,012, Hulhumalé Phase 2 29,855, Galolhu 28,484, Machchangolhi 27,706 and Vilimalé 6,755. Another 66,313 people (12.87%) live on non-administrative islands, mostly resorts and industrial islands. Where available, exits come from Malé and Kulhudhuffushi; open one in our IP checker before relying on its island, since geolocation databases disagree at town level.
Networks
Networks behind Maldives mobile proxies and home lines
APNIC Labs puts 55.18% of Maldivian users on Dhiraagu and 37.35% on Ooredoo, 92.53% between them. Raajjé Online, run by Focus Infocom, and Satlink follow on fixed lines. CAM, the regulator, publishes no split by operator: it counted 854,844 mobile subscriptions in August 2026, 616,421 of them prepaid (72.11%), and 109,647 fixed broadband subscriptions.
| Network | Registered as | ASN | Share of Maldivian users | IPv6-capable | Mobile network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dhiraagu | Dhivehi Raajjeyge Gulhun PLC | AS7642 | 55.18% | 0.11% | Yes |
| Ooredoo | Ooredoo Maldives Plc | AS55944 | 37.35% | 40.09% | Yes |
| Raajjé Online | Focus Infocom Private Limited | AS24016 | 1.49% | 0.00% | No |
| Satlink | SatLink Pvt Ltd | AS136238 | 0.78% | 0.00% | No |
Users: APNIC Labs, 1 November 2026, 60-day window. IPv6: APNIC to 2 November 2026, when 16.80% of Maldivian users were IPv6-capable, against 65.69% for Southern Asia. CAM’s licence list gives Dhiraagu and Ooredoo all telecom services nationwide, Focus Infocom internet services nationwide and SatLink internet on every island outside Malé City; small ISPs such as Bingepro in Addu hold licences island by island. Satlink, despite its name, sells fibre. Starlink (1.57%), Cloudflare (0.50%) and hosting networks are left out. Network keys are offered on US, UK and German logins only, so a lookup’s ASN is how you tell these apart.
Local targets
What to collect from Maldivian sites
Classifieds
50th in the Maldives. Its app lists cars, bikes, houses, phones and furniture. Keep categories and asking prices; leave sellers’ contacts out.
Home and electronics
36th overall, second in shopping. Rufiyaa prices for appliances, furniture and phones, product by product.
Resort jobs
34th overall, first in jobs and education. Count openings per employer and department over time.
Flights
Maldivian, 27th and first in travel, flies to Kulhudhuffushi, Addu City and Fuvahmulah. The Flight Information System, 78th, shows domestic and international arrivals and departures.
News and notices
Mihaaru, 53rd, publishes in Dhivehi. The Edition is in English and has a Jobs & Tenders section.
Telecom plans
10th overall and the highest local site by search traffic. Published plans and prices, to set beside Satlink’s MVR 920 a month for one fibre plan.
Foreign stores
35th and 66th overall, first and third in shopping. Prices and shipping terms as a Maldivian visitor gets them.
Maldivian search
Google.com is 3rd here. Run results with gl=mv, and Bing for desktop queries. Local rank checks, step by step.
Ranks: Ahrefs Top, the Maldives, October 2026, by estimated organic search traffic. Work on public, signed-out pages, under each site’s terms.
For developers
One Maldivian session, with the atoll kept beside the island
This login holds one exit (-cc-mv) for 30 minutes. The script tests the country first, names the network from the ASN and adds the region to any island name that repeats across atolls.
import requests, uuid
GATE = "gate.aeonproxy.com:7000"
# Country key only. Fourteen island names repeat across atolls in Census 2022,
# so keep the region beside the town when you group results.
NET = {"AS7642": "Dhiraagu", "AS55944": "Ooredoo", "AS24016": "Raajje Online", "AS136238": "Satlink"}
REPEATED = {"Meedhoo", "Hithadhoo", "Thinadhoo", "Feydhoo", "Dhidhdhoo", "Guraidhoo", "Maduvvari",
"Nilandhoo", "Maamendhoo", "Omadhoo", "Magoodhoo", "Goidhoo", "Maalhos", "Vaadhoo"}
def maldives_exit(tries=10):
for _ in range(tries):
sid = uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]
proxy = f"http://ap_a1b2c3-cc-mv-sid-{sid}-time-1800:PASS@{GATE}"
try:
geo = requests.get("https://ipinfo.io/json", proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy}, timeout=15).json()
except requests.RequestException:
continue # no answer: open a new session
if geo.get("country") != "MV":
continue # Maldivian exits only
geo["network"] = NET.get(geo.get("org", "").split(" ")[0], geo.get("org"))
town = geo.get("city", "")
geo["place"] = f'{town}, {geo.get("region")}' if town in REPEATED else town
return proxy, geo # this URL keeps its exit for 30 minutes
return None, None
proxy, geo = maldives_exit()
if proxy:
print(geo["ip"], geo["place"], geo["network"])-time- takes 60 to 21600 seconds; drop -sid- and every request gets a new exit. Lookups may spell a town differently from the census, so normalise names before you match them against REPEATED.
# one Maldivian exit for two hours
curl -x gate.aeonproxy.com:7000 \
-U "ap_a1b2c3-cc-mv-sid-mle01-time-7200:PASS" \
https://ipinfo.io/jsonA Maldivian quirk
Fourteen island names repeat across atolls, and Malé has several spellings
Census 2022 lists 186 administrative islands under 171 names. Fourteen names occur in more than one atoll: Meedhoo in Raa (1,872 residents), Dhaalu (1,118) and Addu (1,892), Hithadhoo in Addu (13,759) and Laamu (1,108), Thinadhoo in Gaafu Dhaalu (6,217) and Vaavu (258). A town field alone cannot separate them, so group results by atoll and island together.
Atolls go by two names as well. The census writes Hadhdhunmathi where GeoNames has Laamu, Addu where it has Seenu, and Male’ Atoll where it has Kaafu. “Maale” in the census means the four city wards with Hulhumalé, Vilimalé and Hulhulé, and excludes Male’ Atoll. CAM writes Male’ and place lists write Male, so map all of them to one spelling before you join a lookup to census figures.
Language differs by site: Mihaaru and Avas publish in Dhivehi, set right to left, while The Edition and Avas’s English section use English.
Maldivian rules on personal data, computer access and betting sites
A Data Protection Bill reached Parliament in May 2026. All 66 MPs present backed it at first reading, and it went to the Committee on Information and Communication Technology (MMTV, 22 June 2026). We found no later report of its passage. As drafted it covers controllers, processors, data subjects’ rights and cross-border transfers, and the Information Commissioner would at first act as Privacy Commissioner.
Press reports (The Edition, MV+, December 2024) describe the Sixth Amendment to the Penal Code, ratified that month, as making unauthorised access to a computer system an offence, along with interception, interference, misuse of devices and computer-related forgery and fraud, with access under a court order or lawful permit exempt. We did not read the gazetted text. The Telecommunications Law 2015 and CAM’s regulations are published in Dhivehi, apart from CAM’s English extract of the law’s objects; we did not read them, so we cannot say whether they touch proxy or VPN use. CAM has blocked online betting sites on police directives since July 2024, and such sites are not a supported use.
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Maldives proxy questions
It sends your requests out through a Maldivian connection, so sites treat you as a visitor in the country. Use one to read iBay ads, follow rufiyaa prices at Asters, count resort vacancies on Job-Maldives, run Google results with gl=mv or view your own ads and pages from a Maldivian IP.
2K+ residential IPs in the pool, October 2026. The figure moves as homes go on and off line. Mobile IPs have no count of their own: mobile exits run on Dhiraagu and Ooredoo where the pool has them, and the order page shows availability.
Logins on this page pick the country, -cc-mv. Any atolls and islands on offer appear in the dashboard generator, where available. Open an exit in our IP checker before you rely on its island, because databases disagree at town level.
Homes and phones on the networks people use: Dhiraagu and Ooredoo, with 92.53% of users in APNIC’s estimate, and smaller ISPs such as Raajjé Online and Satlink. You cannot choose one in the login, as network keys are limited to the US, the UK and Germany. In a lookup, AS7642 means Dhiraagu and AS55944 means Ooredoo.
Residential and mobile are the options for this country; the order page lists the countries with static IPs. Rotating residential exits suit listings and shop prices. Mobile, at $0.50 more per GB, is for pages built for phones, which made 73.97% of Maldivian page views in October 2026. For your own accounts, within each platform’s rules, use a sticky session.
On the pricing page. Residential traffic costs $3.49 per GB on the smallest orders and $1.69 from 1,000 GB; mobile runs from $3.99 to $2.19. Traffic does not expire. A free trial exists, and the same page gives its current terms.
We can only answer in part. The Telecommunications Law 2015 and CAM’s regulations are in Dhivehi and we did not read them; the English sources we read set no rule on proxy or VPN use. Press reports say unauthorised access to a computer system has been a Penal Code offence since the December 2024 amendment. Betting sites are blocked and not supported, and a Data Protection Bill was in committee at the last report we found, dated 22 June 2026. Not legal advice.
Someone you cannot identify runs a free proxy and can read, alter and keep whatever passes through it, passwords included. Check one with a lookup: Maldivian lines print AS7642, AS55944, AS24016 or AS136238 with country MV, while Datacamp or Akamai, which also turn up in APNIC’s Maldivian table, are server networks.
Enter gate.aeonproxy.com, port 7000, the username ap_a1b2c3-cc-mv and your password in the HTTP proxy settings of a browser extension, app or script. Add -sid-mle01-time-7200 to the username to keep one exit for two hours. SOCKS5 is covered in the docs.
Fourteen names repeat in Census 2022. Hithadhoo in Addu has 13,759 residents and Hithadhoo in Laamu 1,108, so read the region with the town. GeoNames uses other atoll names too: its Seenu is the census’s Addu, and its Laamu is the census’s Hadhdhunmathi.
Local shops and ISPs quote rufiyaa under two labels: Asters prints Rf6,499 and Satlink MVR 920, so a parser has to accept both. Tourism businesses earn US dollars, and rules from late 2024 make them convert part of those earnings. The rufiyaa has stayed near MVR 15.40 per dollar for over a decade (Corporate Maldives, March 2025). Resorts, hotels, guesthouses and spas have charged 17% TGST since 1 July 2025.