Iraq proxies
Our catalogue lists 16 of Iraq’s 19 governorates, 31 city records and 44 networks. The main thing to know before buying: there is not one mobile carrier in the pool. Neither Zain, nor Asiacell, nor Korek, through which most of Iraq gets online, appears in the catalogue; all 44 networks are fixed-line and fixed wireless providers. Baghdad holds 21 networks, Erbil eleven, and the Kurdish north is a separate market with its own providers. Of 23 well known Iraqi sites we checked from Europe, twenty are open, and two Kurdish outlets served a foreign address their Kurdish edition by default.
What we have in Iraq
The price is the same as in every other country we cover.
What Iraqi addresses get used for
Marketplaces and delivery
Miswag, Orisdi, Talabat Iraq, Baly: all open from outside, the address is for Iraqi prices and assortment.
Classifieds
OpenSooq Iraq: open, but listings and prices depend on the city, and Erbil and Baghdad are different markets.
Fintech and carriers
Qi Card, FastPay, ZainCash, Zain, Asiacell, Korek: ZainCash sits behind a Cloudflare challenge, the rest is open.
Ad verification and search results
Al Sumaria, Al Mada, Shafaq, Rudaw, Kurdistan24, google.iq: the Kurdish outlets serve a foreigner their Sorani edition.
Kurdistan
Erbil and Sulaymaniyah: eleven and three networks, their own providers, Kurdish in the results.
What looks different from outside Iraq
Of 23 sites we checked, twenty opened on the first request. Three did not serve a page: two behind a Cloudflare challenge, one behind its own verification gateway. We sell addresses rather than a way past detection.
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 BaghdadTwenty one networks and the only real rotation across autonomous systems
- 02Residential plus ErbilThe Kurdish market with its own providers and language
- 03Residential, country levelFor collection where address class matters more than the city
- 04A one hour sticky sessionFor wallets and carrier dashboards
Connection strings for Iraq
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 Iraq it decides more than usual: Baghdad and Erbil are not just two cities but two different sets of providers and two languages in the results.
Iraqi exits, four ways
# rotating, a new address per request
curl -x login_c_IQ:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# sticky, the same address for an hour
curl -x login_c_IQ_s_7_ttl_1h:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# pinned to Erbil, the Kurdish market
curl -x login_c_IQ_city_Erbil:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# SOCKS5 on the same port: the scheme picks the protocol, not the number
curl -x socks5h://login_c_IQ:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.orgThere are no mobile carriers in the pool
Iraq has three mobile carriers, Zain, Asiacell and Korek, and for most residents mobile data is the main channel. None of them is in our pool. All 44 networks by name are fixed-line and fixed wireless providers, from two national ones down to dozens of local ones serving a single city.
Two networks are nearly everywhere: Hulum Almustakbal in twelve cities from Basra to Erbil, and Earthlink in twelve from Baghdad to Samawah. Then Steps Telecom in four and Al Atheer in three. The remaining 40 cover one or two cities, and 30 of them exactly one.
What that means for a job: an Iraqi address from us always looks like a home or office fixed-line subscriber. For websites and advertising that is fine; for apps that expect a mobile carrier specifically, it is not. If the target checks the carrier, Iraq in our pool will not cover it.
Baghdad and Erbil are two different markets
Baghdad holds 21 networks out of 44, and ten of them exist only there. Among them is Starlink, whose addresses geolocate loosely and are unsuitable for city-level work, and LinkiWay DMCC, registered in Dubai: pin a provider if the look of the address matters.
Erbil with eleven networks is the country’s second pool, and its composition is its own: IQ Networks, Alsardfiber, Allay Nawroz, Pirmam, DIL, O3, Tarin, Wellow Net, Iraq Cell. Only Hulum Almustakbal and SmartLink overlap with Baghdad. Sulaymaniyah adds three networks, also Kurdish.
Then come Basra with six networks, Najaf and Al Hillah with five, Kirkuk and Kut with four. In twelve cities out of 24 exactly one network is available. Three governorates are absent from the catalogue altogether: Dohuk, Diwaniyah and Halabja.
Some names in the catalogue are duplicates: Supercell and Super Cell Network, DIL Technology and DIL Technology Limited, Pirmam twice, Hilal Al-Rafidain twice. By unique company the count is about forty.
Twenty sites out of 23 are open
We checked 23 well known Iraqi domains from Europe with a full browser header set, on 16 October 2026. Twenty opened: Miswag, OpenSooq, Talabat, Baly, Orisdi, Zain, Asiacell, Korek, the Central Bank, Qi Card, FastPay, Iraqi Airways, the Ur government portal, the ISX exchange, and the Al Sumaria, Al Mada, Shafaq, Rudaw, Kurdistan24 and Iraq Business News outlets.
Three did not serve a page. Earthlink and ZainCash met the request with a Cloudflare challenge and answered 403. Rafidain Bank redirected to its own gateway with a verification code. Those are not geographic filters but protection against automation, and an address by itself does not lift them.
What matters more: Rudaw and Kurdistan24 served a foreign address their Sorani edition by default, while Zain, Shafaq, Qi Card and OpenSooq served Arabic. If you collect search results or verify ads, the edition language depends on where the request came from, and a Baghdad exit gives a different page than an Erbil one.
The practical conclusion: Iraq is one of the most open countries in our measurements. An address here is for Iraqi prices, assortment and edition language, not for access.
What Iraqi sites check beyond the address
The languages are Arabic and Kurdish. The commercial web is Arabic with an English version, and the Kurdish north serves Sorani by default. For collection that is two passes rather than one.
The currency is the dinar, IQD, written د.ع or ID. Digits on Arabic sites are often Eastern Arabic, with a comma for thousands. The official dollar rate is fixed by the state, but the market rate differs, and marketplace prices in dinars often follow the market.
The time zone is UTC+3 with no daylight saving. The weekend is Friday and Saturday.
How stable the exits are here
In Baghdad and Erbil there is something to switch to and sessions hold. Across the rest of the country there are one or two networks per city, and almost no rotation inside the city.
On size, plainly: 44 networks by name, about forty unique, two national. Plan your load against Baghdad, Kurdish jobs against Erbil, and treat the rest as a selective supplement.
Choosing the setup for an Iraqi target
The short fork.
- You need rotation across autonomous systems: Baghdad unpinned, 21 networks.
- You need the Kurdish market or the Sorani edition: Erbil, eleven networks.
- You need the south: Basra, six networks.
- The target expects a mobile carrier: Iraq in our pool will not cover it, there are no mobile networks.
- You need a wallet or carrier dashboard: a one hour sticky session, one session per account.
What a month of Iraqi work costs
It is counted in traffic. A dollar per gigabyte.
- Price monitoring across Miswag and Orisdi, 20,000 listings a day with images blocked, roughly 110 KB per page: about 2.2 GB a day, around 66 GB a month, $66 on residential.
- A daily sweep of one OpenSooq category: tens of gigabytes.
- Ad verification, 200 placements a day at about 400 KB each: under 2.5 GB a month.
The legal part, stated plainly
As far as we know, Iraq has no general data protection law of the GDPR kind in force, and data handling is governed by scattered provisions. Communications and media are regulated by the Communications and Media Commission, the CMC. Collecting publicly posted prices and processing personal data are different things, and before the second it is worth checking the current state of the law.
A proxy changes none of what you are allowed to do with data. It changes only which country the request appears to come from.
This is general information rather than legal advice. Our terms require lawful use and we act on abuse reports.
Verifying an Iraqi exit
Under a minute. The third command shows which edition Rudaw serves your exit: a foreign address got Sorani.
Three checks
# 1. is the exit Iraqi, and on which network
curl -s -x login_c_IQ_city_Baghdad: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_IQ_s_7_ttl_1h:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org; echo; done
# 3. which Rudaw edition the exit gets
curl -s -x login_c_IQ_city_Erbil:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code} %{redirect_url}\n" https://www.rudaw.net/What to read next
Where the numbers come from
The numbers on governorates, cities and networks come from our residential pool catalogue as of 16 October 2026. Service entries with no city name are not counted. We ran the check on 23 Iraqi domains ourselves from Europe on the same day, with a full browser header set and a 45 second limit per answer.
- CMC, the Iraqi communications and media regulatorOfficial carrier and provider data, if you want to check the shape of the market against our pool.
- EarthlinkOne of the two national providers in our pool: twelve cities.
- Central Bank of IraqThe official dinar rate that marketplace prices diverge from.
- MiswagThe largest Iraqi marketplace, open from outside without an address.
Questions people ask before buying Iraqi addresses
Are Zain, Asiacell or Korek in the pool?
No. There is not one mobile carrier in the Iraqi pool; all 44 networks are fixed-line and fixed wireless providers. If the target expects a mobile carrier, Iraq from us will not cover it.
Where is the deepest pool?
Baghdad: 21 networks out of 44, ten of them only there. Erbil holds eleven networks with its own Kurdish line-up, Basra six. In twelve cities out of 24 there is exactly one network.
Do Iraqi sites block foreigners?
Hardly. Of the 23 we checked, twenty opened. Earthlink and ZainCash sit behind a Cloudflare challenge and Rafidain Bank behind its own gateway, which is protection against automation rather than a country filter.
Why does Rudaw open in Kurdish?
Because the Kurdish outlets serve a foreign address their Sorani edition by default. Through a Baghdad exit you will most likely get Arabic, through an Erbil exit Kurdish.
Do Iraqi addresses cost more?
No. The price is the same everywhere: residential from $1.00 per GB.