Regulation methods for proxy services

A method to regulate a proxy server:

• installing, by a proxy regulator, a configuration file on a proxy server;
• storing, by the proxy regulator, configuration setting and metadata information about the proxy server in a proxy database;
• receiving, by a gateway, a client request about the proxy server from a client device;
• forwarding, by the gateway, the client request to the proxy regulator;
• sending, by the proxy regulator, the proxy server information from the proxy database to the client device through the gateway;
• upon receiving the client request, checking, by the proxy server, a target domain indicated in the client request to determine whether the target domain is in a list of restricted domains or unrestricted domains;
• wherein the checking involves:
• if the target domain is in the list of unrestricted domains, sending the client request to the target;
• if the target domain is in the list of restricted domains, checking whether a request count for restricted domain has reached a limit in a time frame and if the request count for the target domain is below the limit, the proxy server forwards the client request to the target;
• if the request count for the target domain is over the limit, the proxy server sends an error message to the client device;
• wherein the configuration file enables the proxy server to manage incoming requests and outgoing request.