Glossary of proxy and MENA market terms

An IP address that a consumer internet provider assigns to a home connection. Sites see it as an ordinary household.

A proxy that gives an IP from the pool on each new connection, usually a different one. Useful for reading many pages, each from a different home.

A setting that keeps the same IP for a set time, set in the username with a session ID and a duration. At MENA Proxies: up to 30 minutes (the IP can change earlier).

A fixed IP registered to a consumer ISP but usually hosted in a data centre, rented per IP for weeks or months. MENA Proxies does not sell them; see static vs rotating.

One 4G/5G modem with one SIM, used by a single customer, whose IP changes when the customer rotates it.

The server you connect to, here gw.menaproxies.com, which forwards each request to an exit IP in the country you chose.

The two proxy protocols the gateway accepts. HTTP CONNECT carries HTTPS traffic through an HTTP proxy; SOCKS5 carries any TCP traffic and can pass the hostname to the proxy instead of resolving it on your machine.

Sending the hostname to the proxy, which resolves it, instead of resolving it on your computer. In curl: --socks5-hostname; in Python requests: socks5h:// (needs pip install "requests[socks]").

A second set of proxy credentials under one account, with its own usage totals, used to separate clients or projects.

Choosing the country, and the city when IPs are online there, of the exit IP. At MENA Proxies it goes in the username: country-ae, city-dubai.

The number that identifies an operator's network on the internet, such as AS5384 for e& in the UAE or AS8452 for WE in Egypt. An IP lookup shows it.

A database that maps IP addresses to countries and cities. Different databases can place the same IP in different cities; see how to check a proxy's location.

A country-code top-level domain, such as .ae, .sa or .eg. Google has redirected its country domains, such as google.ae, to google.com since April 2025.

Home internet delivered over a mobile network to a router, common in the Gulf. Such homes can show an IP from an operator that also runs a mobile network.

Middle East and North Africa. On this site: the six Gulf states, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, plus Palestine, Libya and Sudan, which are not offered for now.

The Gulf Cooperation Council: the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman.

The eastern Mediterranean region. On this site, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon, grouped with Iraq.

North-west Africa. On this site, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, where French is widely used online alongside Arabic.

A currency divided into 1,000 sub-units: the Kuwaiti, Bahraini, Jordanian and Tunisian dinars and the Omani rial. Price feeds must keep three decimals.

The writing direction of Arabic and Hebrew. Interfaces mirror their layout, and mixed text with Latin words or numbers needs testing.

Value-added tax shown in shelf prices: 5% in the UAE, 15% in Saudi Arabia. Store it with every price you record.

Residential proxy, in Arabic. Searches such as "شراء بروكسي سعودي" (buy a Saudi proxy) use it.

Rotating residential proxy, in Arabic.