Classified ads
13th in Sri Lanka by estimated search traffic. Listings and asking prices; leave sellers’ contact details out.
Sri Lanka proxies for ikman listings and rupee prices on Daraz and Abans
9K+ residential IPs in the pool, October 2026, on the home and mobile networks of Dialog, SLTMobitel and Hutch. Residential traffic costs $3.49 per GB, or $1.69 at the 1,000 GB tier; mobile runs from $3.99 to $2.19. Use the country key -cc-lk, and see the dashboard generator for the provinces and cities on offer.
Residential IPs9K+
Sri Lankan home addresses in the pool, October 2026.
IPv6-capable users61.53%
APNIC, 30 October 2026: second in South Asia after India (76.17%), up from 56.20% a year earlier.
Users on Dialog’s network58.64%
APNIC Labs’ estimate for AS18001, 29 October 2026. SLTMobitel’s two networks follow with 31.60% between them.
Sticky sessions6 h
A Sri Lankan exit stays put for 60 to 21600 seconds when the login has -sid- and -time-; drop them for a new exit per request.
Products
Proxy types with Sri Lankan exits
| Proxy | In Sri Lanka | Session | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 9K+ residential IPs in the pool, October 2026, on Sri Lankan home connections | Rotating, or sticky up to 6 h | $3.49 → $1.69 per GB |
| Mobile | Dialog, SLTMobitel and Hutch 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 Sri Lanka
ikman, Daraz and a web read mostly on desktops
The two shopping sites placed highest in Ahrefs’ Sri Lankan ranking by estimated search traffic for October 2026 are local: ikman.lk, whose page title calls it Sri Lanka’s largest marketplace for classified ads, is 13th among all sites, and the marketplace daraz.lk is 15th.
Local shops price in rupees. On 31 October 2026 Abans listed a 43-inch Toshiba QLED TV at Rs. 199,999, and Daraz showed a hair-care bundle at Rs. 1,178 against Rs. 2,690. Kapruka, a gift and delivery site, gave prices in US dollars with a euro estimate when read from outside the country.
Desktops produced 74.32% of Sri Lankan page views in September 2026 and phones 25.25% (StatCounter). Bing took 10.88% of desktop searches but 0.97% of mobile ones, and Google had 93.66% across all devices. Rank tracking on both engines is under SERP proxies.
Coverage
Colombo, Kandy, Galle, Jaffna and the nine provinces
The census counted 21,781,800 people on 19 December 2024, and Western Province, around Colombo, holds 28.1% of them. Targeting is by country with -cc-lk; the dashboard generator shows which provinces and cities are on offer.
Western Province28.1%Colombo 509,207 · Kaduwela 277,918 · Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia 181,878 · Negombo 137,952
Central Province12.5%Kandy 94,482 · Matale 36,526 · Nuwara Eliya 23,499
Southern Province12%Galle 89,242 · Matara 76,193 · Hambantota 26,351
North Western Province11.9%Puttalam 51,321 · Kurunegala 25,981
Sabaragamuwa Province9.3%Ratnapura 47,179 · Kegalle 16,250
Eastern Province8.2%Kalmunai 114,227 · Batticaloa 95,107 · Trincomalee 51,774
North Central Province6.5%Anuradhapura 52,737 · Polonnaruwa 37,320
Uva Province6.4%Badulla 45,210 · Bandarawela 23,742
Northern Province5.3%Jaffna 79,177 · Vavuniya 28,681
Population: DCS, Census of Population and Housing 2024; provinces from its Table 3.2, towns as municipal and urban councils. Kesbewa (204,301), Maharagama (196,500) and Moratuwa (160,199) are further Western Province councils. Nugegoda, Homagama, Ja Ela, Kadawatha, Hatton and Ampara are among the other places exits come from, where available. Province names follow GeoNames. A town in a lookup is a database’s estimate, so confirm it in our IP checker before you build on it.
Networks
Dialog first, then SLTMobitel and Hutch on two networks each
APNIC Labs puts 58.64% of Sri Lankan internet users on Dialog’s network. SLTMobitel’s mobile network (AS45356) has 20.81% and its fixed one, Sri Lanka Telecom (AS9329), 10.79%; Hutch has 7.24% and 6.38% on its two. Every other network in APNIC’s table stays under 0.4%.
| Network | Brand | ASN | Share of Sri Lankan users | IPv6-capable | TRCSL licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dialog Axiata | Dialog, with Airtel | AS18001 | 58.64% | 72.56% | Cellular |
| Mobitel | SLTMobitel | AS45356 | 20.81% | 60.88% | Cellular |
| Sri Lanka Telecom | SLTMobitel | AS9329 | 10.79% | 57.03% | Fixed access |
| Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka | Hutch | AS17470 | 7.24% | 22.90% | Cellular |
| Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka | Hutch | AS132447 | 6.38% | 24.39% | Cellular |
| Lanka Communication Services | LankaCom | AS5087 | 0.1% | 0.19% | Data communication |
Users: APNIC Labs, 29 October 2026; its 20 Sri Lankan rows add up to 104.93%. IPv6: APNIC, to 30 October 2026. Licences: TRCSL, Q2 2026. Starlink (0.36%), the LEARN research network, Cloudflare and other hosting rows are left out. Network keys are a US, UK and German feature; on a Sri Lankan exit the ASN tells Dialog, SLTMobitel and Hutch apart.
Fixed lines
Fixed access connections by technology, 30 June 2026
TRCSL counted 2,707,976 fixed access connections, and 60% of them use LTE; fibre has 19%. Mobile subscriptions stood at 29,419,289. Sri Lankan mobile exits in the pool run on the three licensed cellular operators, Dialog, Mobitel and Hutch; the order page shows availability.
TRCSL, Telecom Statistics of Sri Lanka, Q2 2026 (provisional): 2,020,894 fixed broadband and 21,860,876 mobile broadband subscriptions. Dialog reported 18,926,755 customers on 31 March 2026, 17,418,241 of them prepaid.
Local targets
Sri Lankan sites worth collecting from
Marketplace
15th overall. Rupee prices with the crossed-out price beside them, on pages that mix English and Sinhala.
Appliances
75th. Prices in Rs. and discount percentages, with islandwide delivery and 360+ pickup points.
Home electronics
37th. Product prices in LKR and the store’s easy payment schemes.
Gifts and delivery
100th. Priced in US dollars for a visitor from abroad; note which currency a Sri Lankan exit sees.
Job ads
39th. On 31 October 2026 it showed 3,085 new hot jobs and 1,000+ more. Count vacancies by field.
Foreign stores
58th and 73rd. Prices and shipping as quoted to a buyer in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lankan search
18th in Ahrefs’ list. Results for gl=lk in English and Sinhala, with Bing for desktop queries. Location-based rank checks.
Ahrefs Top ranks these sites for Sri Lanka by estimated organic search traffic, October 2026. Stay on public, signed-out pages and follow each site’s terms.
For developers
Pick an operator: Dialog, SLTMobitel or Hutch
Each try opens a 6-hour session on -cc-lk, reads the lookup and keeps the exit only if the country is LK and the ASN belongs to an operator you asked for. Both of Hutch’s ASNs and both of SLTMobitel’s count as one brand.
import requests, uuid
GATE = "gate.aeonproxy.com:7000"
# Country key only. Hutch and SLTMobitel each answer on two ASNs:
# AS45356 is Mobitel's mobile network, AS9329 Sri Lanka Telecom's fixed one.
OPERATOR = {"AS18001": "Dialog", "AS45356": "SLTMobitel", "AS9329": "SLTMobitel",
"AS17470": "Hutch", "AS132447": "Hutch"}
def lanka_exit(wanted=("Dialog", "SLTMobitel", "Hutch"), tries=10):
for _ in range(tries):
login = f"ap_a1b2c3-cc-lk-sid-{uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]}-time-21600"
proxy = f"http://{login}:PASS@{GATE}"
try:
geo = requests.get("https://ipinfo.io/json", proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy}, timeout=20).json()
except requests.RequestException:
continue # no answer: next session id
op = OPERATOR.get(geo.get("org", "").split(" ")[0])
if geo.get("country") == "LK" and op in wanted:
return proxy, geo, op # held for up to 6 hours
return None, None, None
proxy, geo, op = lanka_exit(wanted=("Hutch",))
if proxy:
print(geo["ip"], geo.get("city"), geo.get("region"), op)Leave wanted at its default to accept any of the three. -time-21600 is the 6-hour maximum and any value from 60 seconds works; a login without -sid- rotates per request. Logins outside the US, the UK and Germany cannot name a network, so the operator comes from the ASN.
# a Sri Lankan exit for 15 minutes
curl -x gate.aeonproxy.com:7000 \
-U "ap_a1b2c3-cc-lk-sid-cmb01-time-900:PASS" \
https://ipinfo.io/jsonA Sri Lankan quirk
Airtel into Dialog, 5G sites and a VAT date: changes since 2024
Airtel Lanka became part of Dialog in 2024, and from 1 July 2026 foreign firms selling digital services to people in Sri Lanka must register for VAT once their sales pass a threshold.
Airtel Lanka joins Dialog
Dialog completes its amalgamation with Bharti Airtel Lanka, which ceases to exist as a company; the Airtel brand stays in use.
18.9 million Dialog customers
Dialog reports 18,926,755 customers and over 1,000 5G base station sites across all nine provinces.
Air Fibre
Dialog launches Air Fibre, a 5G-powered Wi-Fi service that needs no fixed-line infrastructure.
Regulator’s count
TRCSL records 29,419,289 mobile subscriptions on three licensed cellular operators, Dialog, Mobitel and Hutch.
VAT registration for foreign digital services
Under the VAT (Amendment) Act No. 14 of 2026, a non-resident firm supplying services through an electronic platform to people in Sri Lanka must register once its sales pass 60 million rupees in twelve months or 15 million in a quarter. Compare foreign app and subscription prices across this date with care.
Data protection and computer crime law in Sri Lanka
According to the Data Protection Authority of Sri Lanka, Extraordinary Gazette No. 2498/16 of 22 July 2026 brings the core of the Personal Data Protection Act No. 9 of 2022, as amended, into operation on 1 January 2027: sections 2 and 3, Part I on lawful processing and Part III on controllers and processors, with data protection officers, breach notices and impact assessments. Collect prices, counts and rankings, and leave the names and phone numbers in ikman or Daraz listings alone.
Under section 3 of the Computer Crime Act No. 24 of 2007, intentionally securing access to a computer, or to information held in one, without lawful authority is an offence, punishable by a fine of up to 100,000 rupees, up to five years in prison, or both. Section 4 raises the fine to 200,000 rupees when the access is meant to commit a further offence. The Sri Lankan acts we read set no licence, registration or ban for VPN or proxy use.
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Sri Lanka proxy questions
Your traffic leaves through an address on a Sri Lankan network such as Dialog, SLTMobitel or Hutch, so websites treat the request as local. Use it to read ikman listings and Daraz’s rupee prices as a local visitor sees them, or to check google.lk rankings and what a foreign store quotes a buyer in Colombo.
9K+ residential IPs in the pool, October 2026. Mobile exits have no separate count; they run on Dialog, SLTMobitel and Hutch where the pool has them, and the order page lists what is available now. The residential figure rises and falls with the households behind it.
Only the country goes into the login, as -cc-lk. For provinces and cities, the dashboard generator shows what Sri Lanka has on offer, where available. To stay in one area, read the region in each lookup and drop exits elsewhere, then confirm the town in our IP checker, since city names for one address vary between databases.
Homes and phones on Dialog, which APNIC credits with 58.64% of Sri Lankan users, on SLTMobitel’s mobile and fixed networks (20.81% and 10.79%) and on Hutch’s two networks (7.24% and 6.38%). Carrier keys work only for US, UK and German logins, so sort Sri Lankan exits by ASN.
Not as a company. Airtel Lanka was amalgamated into Dialog on 30 August 2024, with Dialog as the surviving entity, and the Airtel brand carries on inside it. TRCSL’s list of cellular operators for Q2 2026 names three: Hutchison, Mobitel and Dialog.
Hutch announces addresses from AS17470 and AS132447, both registered to Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka at 234 Galle Road, Colombo. PeeringDB lists AS17470 under the name Etisalat Lanka, with Hutch as its other name. Map both ASNs to Hutch, as the Python tab does.
Rotating residential exits suit classifieds, shop prices and search. Desktops produced 74.32% of Sri Lankan page views in September 2026, so give the desktop layout as much attention as the mobile one; mobile exits, $0.50 more per GB, fit app checks, and Android ran 84.92% of mobile traffic. Accounts of your own, under each platform’s rules, go on a static ISP address; Sri Lankan stock is shown on the order page.
Section 3 of the Computer Crime Act No. 24 of 2007 makes it an offence to gain access to a computer without lawful authority, and the core of the Personal Data Protection Act applies from 1 January 2027. Neither act, nor any other Sri Lankan law we read, requires registration or a licence for proxy or VPN use or bans it. Not legal advice.
A free proxy hands your traffic, cookies and passwords to an operator you know nothing about. In a lookup, a Sri Lankan home or phone line shows AS18001, AS45356, AS9329, AS17470 or AS132447; if the holder is a cloud or hosting company, the address sits in a data centre.
In any app, extension or library that takes an HTTP proxy, use host gate.aeonproxy.com, port 7000, user ap_a1b2c3-cc-lk and your password. Add -sid-cmb01-time-900 for a 15-minute session on one exit. The docs explain SOCKS5, and current free trial terms are on the pricing page.