youtube.com watch URLs rank strongly and survive the videos they point at, so a removed compilation can keep returning for a stage name with its thumbnail and title intact. Delisting is a separate request from the platform report and addresses precisely that residue.
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 youtube.com
Resolved live · no account · nothing uploaded
A notice for youtube.com goes to a curated route openDMCA already holds.
2 · RDAP abuse contact— resolves.abusecomplaints@markmonitor.com — the registrar's abuse desk, not youtube.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 youtube.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 youtube.com, no page is fetched, and the text is not stored or sent anywhere.
Search your name and record the youtube.com URLs. Collect the watch and channel URLs that actually return. Some will point at videos already removed, and those entries are what a delisting request exists for.
Include the channel URL. A youtube.com channel page aggregates uploads and can rank for a creator name on its own. Filing on videos alone leaves the channel returning.
Pair each URL with your original. The copyright delisting request needs the location of your original for each infringing youtube.com URL. Where the material is intimate and non-consensual, the personal-imagery route applies instead.
File both indexes. Submit the youtube.com list to Google and to Bing separately. Both index this platform heavily and each runs its own queue.
Verify with a name search. Re-run your name search after a few days rather than reading a receipt. Whether the youtube.com results still appear is the only question that matters.
Why a removed youtube.com video keeps ranking
A search index holds an entry until it is removed or re-crawled, and youtube.com pages are crawled and ranked aggressively. A removed video leaves a well-ranked entry with its title and thumbnail, which is more visible than most residual results.
openDMCA files delisting per URL and verifies with an hourly re-check of whether the URL is genuinely absent, rather than waiting for a re-crawl that may take considerably longer than the harm does.
openDMCA gives the first two hops away: you can open the search-removal request builder and run it on a URL of your own, with no account and nothing uploaded.
One thing that catches people out on youtube.com
youtube.com watch URLs are among the best-ranked pages on the web for their own titles, so the index entry a removed compilation leaves behind is unusually prominent — frequently more visible than the leak host that supplied the footage. The residue outranks the source, which is the reverse of what a creator expects.
Frequently asked questions
The youtube.com video is removed but still shows in search.
The index entry outlives the video. A delisting request removes it directly instead of waiting for the engine to re-crawl and find nothing.
Should I file for the channel page?
Yes, where it returns for your name. A channel page aggregates uploads and often outranks any single video.
Does the request notify the channel?
No. A delisting request goes to the search engine. The platform report is separate and does reach the platform.
Build a delisting request from your own URL list — free, no account.