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    How to check if a kemono.su link is still live

    Verifying a kemono.su URL means testing two things that fail independently: whether the page still responds, and whether the search index still holds it. A page can be gone while the result lingers, and a result can vanish while the page stays reachable to anyone who kept the link.

    Left up, 120 exposed copies work out to an estimated $701 a month in diverted subscriptions. Estimate, not a measurement: it assumes 0.45 diverted subscribers per exposed post at an average subscription price of $12.99. Your number depends on your pricing and audience.

    Removal route for kemono.su

    Resolved live · no account · nothing uploaded

    Nothing publishes a contact for kemono.su. The notice goes to the fallback address, and the network and search routes carry the weight.

    1. 1 · Curated host route — silent. No host_handlers row for kemono.su.
    2. 2 · RDAP abuse contact — silent. rdap.org returns no RDAP service for the .su registry. Probed 2026-09-04.
    3. 3 · Fallback address — resolves. abuse@kemono.su — the address the resolver falls back to. It may not be monitored.
    4. 4 · Network and search — runs next. Cloudflare detection over DNS-over-HTTPS, then Google and Bing delisting of every indexed kemono.su URL.

    What happens to what you type: nothing. The domain is matched against openDMCA's routing table in your browser. No request is made to kemono.su, no page is fetched, and the text is not stored or sent anywhere.

    Every removal route on this page is also listed on the kemono.su removal hub.

    Removal route demo for kemono.su, still-live job.

    Step by step

    1. Test the exact URL you filed on. Check the specific kemono.su post URL rather than the creator page above it. A creator page that still loads says nothing about whether the individual post came down, and a status record needs that distinction.
    2. Record the response rather than the appearance. A removed page and a hidden page can look identical. What separates them is the response the server returns, which is why an automated check stores the status code instead of a screenshot.
    3. Search the URL as its own query. Search the exact kemono.su URL to see whether the index still holds it. Host removal and search removal run in different queues, and one landing tells you nothing about the other.
    4. Check twice, days apart. A single check confirms a removal that stuck and misses one that was reversed. Anything reported as removed on kemono.su is worth re-testing later, because the reversal is the expensive event.
    5. Tie the result back to the notice. Record which notice and which round the check relates to. That link is the only thing that later reveals which channel produced the removal, and that is what makes the next takedown shorter.

    Why openDMCA verifies a kemono.su removal instead of assuming it

    A dashboard that reports what it sent is reporting its own activity. openDMCA records the real provider outcome for each notice — delivered, failed, queued for a form, or skipped because a throttle applied — and then checks removal separately rather than inferring it.

    That separation is what makes the routing data honest. A kemono.su notice that was delivered and produced nothing is a usable measurement; without it the system would keep treating the email rung as though it had worked.

    One limitation openDMCA publishes rather than hides: the resurrection figure is computed from a URL's current status, so a page that returned and was removed again counts as removed. The measure under-reports how often content comes back.

    openDMCA gives the first two hops away: you can open verify one URL yourself and run it on a URL of your own, with no account and nothing uploaded.

    One thing that catches people out on kemono.su

    openDMCA's takedown status vocabulary has four values — sent, failed, queued for a web form, and skipped because a throttle applied — and none of them means removed. On kemono.su, where most notices are delivered and ignored, the gap between the sent status and the verified state is the entire measurement, and a service that only shows the first one cannot tell you anything useful about this host.

    Frequently asked questions

    The kemono.su page loads but shows nothing. Is it removed?

    Possibly not. An emptied page and a removed page are different states, and only one of them takes the URL out of the index. Recording the server response rather than the rendering is what distinguishes them.

    Should I check every URL myself?

    For a handful, yes, and openDMCA publishes the manual method deliberately. For hundreds it stops being feasible, which is the actual difference between filing yourself and automating it.

    The result is gone from search but the page still works.

    That is a delisting landing while the host route has not. Both tracks stay open until the URL fails in both places, because anyone holding the link can still open it.

    Check one URL yourself before you assume it is gone — free, no account.