Multi-platform apps, a public proxy list, an anonymity checker and pricing that starts under a dollar per month — inside the toolset that made hide-my-name.cc a household name for Russian-speaking privacy geeks.
HideMyName has been quietly running from hide-my-name.cc for well over a decade, long before consumer VPNs became a mainstream category advertised on every podcast. The homepage sets the tone: hand-drawn cat mascots, plain-language copy, and a single promise that the service works inside Russia and everywhere else. The company sells a paid VPN subscription, but the site also gives away a genuinely useful stack of free tools — a public proxy list, an IP and DNS leak checker, a WebRTC tester, an email-breach lookup and a Whois utility. That mix is unusual: most modern VPN sites are pure landing pages, whereas HideMyName still feels like a working toolbox built by people who actually use it.
The 'What is VPN?' page on hide-my-name.cc explains the product in three short lines: hide activity from your ISP, encrypt passwords and messages on public Wi-Fi, and create a closed channel between your devices. Under the hood the service ships native clients for macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and Linux, plus router configuration for OpenVPN and WireGuard so a single subscription can cover a whole household. Country coverage spans North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Turkey, Kazakhstan, India, Japan and a handful of Southeast Asian exits — enough to unblock most region-locked streaming libraries and to hop out of a restrictive network without noticeable latency on nearby servers.
HideMyName's pricing page keeps things blunt: three tiers — one month, six months, one year — with the annual plan flagged as 'most popular' and priced around 330 rubles per month, roughly a third of the monthly rate. Perks bundled with a paid subscription include incoming-port opening for hosting a game server, 4K streaming without buffering, five simultaneous device connections, dedicated IP rental, and a money-back guarantee if the service does not work for you. The whole checkout is aimed at Russian-speaking users, but international bank cards, crypto and several regional wallets are accepted — which is why the service has quietly picked up an audience well beyond its home market.
The single most useful thing HideMyName offers — even before you pay for anything — is the anonymity checker at hide-my-name.cc. It shows the country and city your IP is reporting, whether your real IPv6 is leaking, whether WebRTC is exposing your local address, and whether your DNS queries are travelling through the tunnel or bypassing it. Run it once with your normal connection, then again with the HideMyName VPN turned on, and you will see exactly what changes. That kind of transparent, provable difference is what separates a real privacy tool from a marketing exercise, and it is why HideMyName is worth a serious look if the paid tiers on hide-my-name.cc fit your budget.
Pricing, servers and country coverage set by HideMyName.
