A reddit.com permalink survives the post it points at: the item is removed, the index entry remains, and the result keeps returning for a stage name with the original title attached. Delisting that URL is a separate request from the platform report and produces a separate outcome.
Left up, 40 exposed copies work out to an estimated $234 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 reddit.com
Resolved live · no account · nothing uploaded
A notice for reddit.com goes to a curated route openDMCA already holds.
2 · RDAP abuse contact— resolves.abusecomplaints@markmonitor.com — the registrar's abuse desk, not reddit.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 reddit.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 reddit.com, no page is fetched, and the text is not stored or sent anywhere.
Search your name and record the reddit.com URLs. Collect the permalinks that actually return. Some will point at posts already removed, and those are exactly the ones a delisting request is for.
Include comment permalinks, not only posts. A reddit.com comment carrying a link has its own permalink and its own index entry. Filing on the post leaves the comment returning, and comments often carry the working links.
Pair each URL with the original work. The copyright delisting request needs your original's location for each infringing reddit.com URL. Where the material is intimate and non-consensual, the personal-imagery route applies instead and does not require ownership.
File with both indexes. Submit the reddit.com list to Google and to Bing separately. Reddit is indexed heavily by both, and a single filing leaves half the discovery route open.
Verify by searching your name again. Re-run the name search after a few days rather than reading a request status. Whether the reddit.com results still appear is the question that matters.
Why a removed reddit.com post keeps ranking
A search index holds an entry until it is removed or the page is re-crawled and found empty. Removed reddit.com posts often keep their titles in the index for a long time, and the title is usually the part that matches a stage name.
openDMCA files delisting per URL and verifies rather than assuming, with an hourly re-check recording whether a submitted URL is genuinely out of the index. Waiting for a natural re-crawl instead leaves the result returning for as long as the index chooses to keep it.
openDMCA gives the first two hops away: you can open the TCRP-format request builder and run it on a URL of your own, with no account and nothing uploaded.
One thing that catches people out on reddit.com
A reddit.com permalink for a removed post frequently keeps returning in search with its original title intact, so the harm survives the removal that the platform already granted. It is the clearest case in the whole set where a successful takedown and a visible search result coexist, and where the delisting request is doing the work the removal did not.
Frequently asked questions
The reddit.com post is deleted but still shows in search.
The index entry outlives the post. A delisting request removes it directly rather than waiting for the engine to re-crawl and notice the page is empty.
Should I file for comments as well?
Yes, where they are indexed. Comment permalinks are separate URLs, they carry links, and a request on the parent post does not cover them.
Does delisting tell the subreddit?
No. The request goes to the search engine. Reddit is not notified by a delisting request, although a platform report is a separate matter that does reach the platform.
Build a delisting request from your own URL list — free, no account.