Verifying a thotsbay.com thread means testing three things separately: whether the thread page loads, whether the links inside it still resolve, and whether the thread still appears in search. A thread that loads with every link dead is a materially different result from one that is untouched.
Left up, 60 exposed copies work out to an estimated $351 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 thotsbay.com
Resolved live · no account · nothing uploaded
The only published address for thotsbay.com belongs to a registrar, so the notice goes there and to the network in front of it.
1 · Curated host route— silent.No host_handlers row for thotsbay.com.
2 · RDAP abuse contact— resolves.domainabuse@tucows.com — the registrar's abuse desk, not thotsbay.com itself. Probed 2026-09-04.
3 · Fallback address— not needed.Not needed — an earlier rung resolved.
4 · Network and search— runs next.Cloudflare detection over DNS-over-HTTPS, then Google and Bing delisting of every indexed thotsbay.com 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 thotsbay.com, no page is fetched, and the text is not stored or sent anywhere.
Removal route demo for thotsbay.com, still-live job.
Step by step
Open the thread and check the links, not the page. A thotsbay.com thread that loads proves nothing about the removal. Whether the links inside it resolve is the question, because a thread with no working links is close to harmless in practice.
Test each linked host separately. Links in one thotsbay.com thread point at several hosts with different response records. Some will be dead and some live, and that mix is the accurate state rather than a single verdict.
Search the thread URL on its own. Check whether the thotsbay.com thread still appears in search results. The index and the host run separate queues, and one changing tells you nothing about the other.
Record the mix rather than a verdict. Note which links died and which held. That detail decides which hosts deserve another round and which should be routed straight to delisting instead.
Re-check rather than closing the file. Cleared thotsbay.com threads refill. A single clean check that closes the record is how a temporary result becomes a reported success that later proves wrong.
How a partial result on thotsbay.com is recorded
Each link found inside a thotsbay.com thread is stored as its own leak with its own status and its own dispatch round, so a thread is never a single true-or-false record. The state of the thread is the aggregate of its links, which is the only way a partial removal is measurable.
Dispatch status and removal status are kept apart. A notice can be delivered, failed, queued for a web form, or skipped by a throttle — and none of those values means the content came down. Removal is checked separately and recorded separately.
openDMCA gives the first two hops away: you can open test whether the URL is really gone and run it on a URL of your own, with no account and nothing uploaded.
One thing that catches people out on thotsbay.com
openDMCA's escalation is opt-in and defaults to off, with a default ceiling of three dispatch rounds per leak. On a thotsbay.com thread that combination is deliberate: without escalation enabled, each link gets one documented notice and then goes to delisting, rather than consuming three rounds of email on a forum that has never published a process for answering them.
Frequently asked questions
Every link in the thotsbay.com thread is dead but the thread remains.
That is a substantially successful outcome. The material is gone; what remains is a page of text, which the delisting request handles on its own track.
How long before I check?
openDMCA publishes no fixed timeline for any host. Checking after a few days and again later separates a slow result from a refusal, and catches a removal that was reversed.
Some links died and some did not. What now?
That mix is the useful information. Hosts that removed are worth another notice next time; hosts that ignored one are the ones whose future URLs should go straight to delisting.
Check one URL yourself before you assume it is gone — free, no account.