How residential IPs are created
Because Real residential IPs and connections through these IPs are expensive, residential proxy providers do not “own” their IPs. Instead, they “rent” them for a short period of times from various source. And each individual IP becomes part of the proxy pool for short period of times.
These sources from where providers get their residential IPs vary from free tools/services offered to users for the main purpose or routing traffic through their devices, to SDK (software development kits) provided to app developers to monetize their apps.
Here’s an example of an SDK from a residential provider’s website:
I think you can see now why an individual IP address can’t be used for more than a few seconds or for more than a few requests.
Let’s recap why:
An X number of devices, connected to Wi-Fi (residential, broadband connections) join the proxy pool.
The device informs the main proxy server about its idleness
The proxy server doesn’t know how long the device will sit idle
The main proxy server adds this IP to its “currently available IPs”
A request (or several consecutive) requests are sent through the device connection
Step 4 and 5 are repeated as long as the device’s status remains idle
The main issue of a residential proxy provider is that the provider doesn’t know for how long a device with a particular IP address is idle and connected to its network.
And the provider doesn’t have actual control over individual IP address.
This is why residential providers can’t sell proxies per individual IP addresses and why they do not offer dedicated residential proxies.
In other words, the provider doesn’t know exactly what individual IPs they have on their proxy pool, or for how long.
Hence, they can’t offer non-rotating proxies or “dedicated” and “clean” IPs.
Here’s a gif showing how residential proxies work.
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