Greece proxies
Our catalogue lists 13 regions, 99 cities and 24 networks for Greece. The concentration here is the highest of any country we have gone through: the OTE group, meaning Cosmote together with OTENET, sits in 83 cities out of 99. Sixteen cities are left without it. Then come Nova in 28 cities and Vodafone in 20, and after that a tail that exists nowhere else: seven of the twenty four entries are university and research networks.
What we have in Greece
The price is the same as in every other country we cover.
What Greek addresses get used for
Price comparison
Skroutz, the main shop window of Greek e-commerce
Classifieds
Car.gr, XE.gr, Spitogatos
Retail
Public, Kotsovolos, Plaisio, e-shop.gr
Jobs
Skywalker, Kariera
Ad verification
How campaigns render for a Greek audience
What looks different from outside Greece
The list is short: three sites of twenty are closed, and all three through Cloudflare.
What a residential address gives you here
Cities people ask for here
A city is set with the _city_ suffix. The number beside it is how many networks our pool holds there.
The setups people take here most often
- 01Residential plus AthensThirteen networks, more than anywhere else here
- 02Residential with Nova or Vodafone pinnedWhen you want something other than the obvious network of the country
- 03Residential country wide with no cityGreece is compact, and for most jobs the country suffix is enough
Connection strings for Greece
The country is pinned with a suffix in the login. Host, port and password stay the same as for any other country.
A city goes in as a second suffix. In Greece it makes sense for the seven cities listed above; past them a city holds one network.
Greek exits, four ways
# rotating, a new address per request
curl -x login_c_GR:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# sticky, the same address for the session
curl -x login_c_GR_s_600:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# pinned to the capital, where the network choice is
curl -x login_c_GR_city_athens:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# SOCKS5 instead of HTTP
curl -x socks5://login_c_GR:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10001 https://api.ipify.orgOne carrier group covers 83 cities out of 99
No country we have gone through concentrates like this. Cosmote sits in 82 cities and OTENET in 11, both belong to the OTE group, and their union gives 83 cities out of 99. The entries cannot be added up: the sum would give 94, and it is one and the same group.
For comparison: Slovak Telekom covers 42 percent of cities in Slovakia, Cantv 59 percent in Venezuela, Movistar 57 percent in Peru. Here it is 84 percent.
The practical conclusion. If the target counts autonomous systems, you get variety only in Athens and Thessaloniki. Across the country as a whole, pinning a carrier barely changes the picture, because beyond the three large networks there is nothing to choose from: Nova in 28 cities, Vodafone in 20, everything else one off.
The tail of the pool is universities, and that is a trap
Seven of the twenty four entries are academic networks: GRNET, the University of Athens, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Technical University of Crete, the University of Ioannina, the Hellenic Mediterranean University and the Diophantus institute. They appear across nine cities.
For our purposes this is a warning rather than a decoration. An address on a university network does not look like a home connection: it is identified as educational and behaves accordingly. Putting it where the target reads address class is pointless.
There are two cities where an academic network is the only one in the pool at all: Kifissia is covered by the University of Athens, Kato Poroia by the Diophantus institute. Take those cities and that is exactly the address you get, with no alternative. The pool also holds satellite entries, Starlink and ViaSat, both in Athens, and the same applies: they do not look like a home connection either.
Greece filters DNS at a scale its neighbours do not
The gambling regulator EEEP maintains a public blacklist of unlicensed sites, and carriers are required to block them. According to industry reporting, the list has grown to around eleven thousand domains.
In July 2026 EEEP agreed a faster mechanism with the telecoms regulator EETT: blocked domains move into a dedicated response policy zone inside the DNS infrastructure, so a block no longer depends on how quickly each carrier picks it up.
Compare that with Denmark from our own catalogue, where 334 gambling sites were blocked over 2025. Greece is an order of magnitude apart. For ad verification and affiliate flows this means a Greek exit sees a noticeably filtered internet, and checking whether your landing page reaches a Greek audience has to be done from inside the country.
Three sites out of twenty are closed, but one of them is the main one
We checked twenty well known Greek domains from Europe with a full browser header set. Seventeen opened: Public, Kotsovolos, Plaisio, e-shop.gr, Spitogatos, XE.gr, efood, Kariera, the Alpha, Piraeus, Eurobank and National Bank banks, the gov.gr and AADE portals, ERT, Protothema and the gambling regulator site itself.
Three closed, and all three through Cloudflare with a cf-mitigated header: Skroutz, Car.gr and Skywalker.
The numbers are misleading here. Skroutz is not one site among twenty but the central shop window of Greek e-commerce: country wide price comparison happens there first. So formally fifteen percent of what we checked is closed, while practically the one page people come to Greece for is.
What blocks you here beyond the address
The Greek alphabet is not Latin, and that is real work rather than a detail. An Accept-Language header without el looks foreign on a local version of a page, and classifieds and search are full of greeklish, Greek words written in Latin letters. Search queries have to be built in both spellings, or half the results are lost.
The currency is the euro.
The time zone is Eastern European and the clocks change.
How stable the exits are here
Connections in Athens and Thessaloniki hold well. Across the rest of the country, 70 cities out of 99 hold exactly one network and there is nothing to swap to inside the city.
On size, plainly: twenty four networks, but once the academic and satellite ones are set aside about fifteen are usable and three are large. Under load you will come back to the same addresses quickly. Greece is for precise jobs rather than for bulk.
Choosing the setup for a Greek target
The short fork.
- You need different autonomous systems: residential plus Athens.
- You want something other than the obvious network: pin Nova or Vodafone instead of Cosmote.
- You want the look of a home subscriber: do not take Kifissia or Kato Poroia, the network there is a university one.
- The target sits behind bot protection, Skroutz for instance: any Greek residential exit will do.
- You need volume: Greece is small for that, take it selectively.
What a month of Greek work costs
It is counted in traffic. A dollar per gigabyte.
- Price checks across a few hundred listings a day: single gigabytes a month.
- A daily sweep of a large Skroutz category: tens of gigabytes.
- Account work through a browser: a few hundred megabytes per account per day.
The legal part, stated plainly
Greece is in the European Union, so the GDPR applies. That has little bearing on collecting publicly posted prices and a direct bearing on personal data.
Gambling is licensed by EEEP and for Greece only. Operating without a licence towards a Greek audience is prosecuted, and an address does not change that.
A proxy changes none of what you are allowed to do. It changes only which country the request appears to come from.
Verifying a Greek exit
Confirm the exit is Greek, that the session holds, and that a target with a bot check lets you in from a residential address while it does not from an ordinary one.
Three checks
# 1. is the exit Greek, and on which carrier
curl -s -x login_c_GR:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://ipinfo.io/json
# 2. does a sticky session hold the same address
for i in 1 2 3; do curl -s -x login_c_GR_s_600:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org; echo; done
# 3. Skroutz with and without the proxy: compare the codes
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "direct: %{http_code}
" -L https://www.skroutz.gr/
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "residential: %{http_code}
" -x login_c_GR:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 -L https://www.skroutz.gr/What to read next
Where the numbers come from
The numbers on regions, cities and networks come from our residential pool catalogue as of 8 September 2026. We checked the twenty Greek domains ourselves from Europe on the same day, with a full browser header set: without one, some sites answer 403 simply because the request does not look like a browser, which is easy to mistake for address based blocking.
- EEEP, the Greek gambling regulatorMaintains the public blacklist of unlicensed sites that carriers are required to apply.
- Yogonet: the new DNS RPZ blocking mechanismThe source for the July 2026 agreement between EEEP and EETT.
- OONI: a study of Greek censorship under the EEEP listIndependent measurements of how carriers actually apply the list.
- GRNETThe national research network, one of the academic networks sitting in the tail of our Greek pool.
Questions people ask before buying Greek addresses
Why only 24 networks?
That is how many our pool holds for the country. The Greek home internet market is heavily concentrated: the OTE group covers 83 cities out of 99, Nova 28, Vodafone 20. On top of that sit seven academic networks and two satellite ones, which for our purposes are a trap rather than a choice.
Can I avoid landing on a university network?
Yes, the carrier is set when you create the endpoint. The one thing to remember is that in Kifissia and Kato Poroia the academic network is the only one in the pool, so those cities are best avoided if you want the look of a home subscriber.
Do Greek sites block foreigners?
Almost never. Of the twenty domains we checked, seventeen opened from outside, including banks and government portals. Three are closed, all through Cloudflare: Skroutz, Car.gr and Skywalker. But Skroutz is the main price comparison window in the country, so for pricing work a residential address is needed nearly always.
What is this DNS filtering in Greece?
The regulator EEEP maintains a public blacklist of unlicensed gambling sites and carriers are required to block them. Industry reporting puts the list at around eleven thousand domains, and from July 2026 the blocking moves into a dedicated DNS response policy zone for faster enforcement.