reddit.com does not have one contact; it has several routes that look similar and behave differently. Copyright claims, impersonating accounts and non-consensual imagery each go through their own report, and sending a case to the wrong one is the most common reason a creator gets no response at all.
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.
Decide which problem you actually have. A reposted paid set is a copyright matter. An account pretending to be you is impersonation. Intimate material published without consent is a third route. The same reddit.com post can involve more than one.
Collect permalinks, not thread links. Record the permalink of each reddit.com post and comment rather than the thread it sits in. Reports act on specific items, and a thread link leaves the reviewer to guess which item you mean.
File the copyright report with the original named. Where you own the material, the copyright route needs the location of your original alongside each reddit.com permalink. A report without an identified original is the one that stalls.
Use the impersonation form for accounts. An impersonating account goes through the report form openDMCA holds in its routing table for reddit.com. That form asks about identity rather than about ownership of a work.
Keep a record of which route each item went to. Log the reddit.com permalink, the route used and the date. When one route produces nothing, the record is what makes a second attempt through a different route coherent rather than repetitive.
Why reddit.com has several routes rather than one address
Each route asks a different question. Copyright asks who owns the work; impersonation asks who someone is claiming to be; the non-consensual route asks whether the person depicted consented. A single address cannot answer all three, which is why reddit.com splits them.
openDMCA holds the reddit.com impersonation form as a curated row in its routing table rather than resolving it at send time, so an impersonation case is routed to a form rather than to an email address that would not handle it.
openDMCA gives the first two hops away: you can open the abuse-contact lookup and run it on a URL of your own, with no account and nothing uploaded.
One thing that catches people out on reddit.com
openDMCA's routing table stores the reddit.com impersonation report as a form-type route with a defined field list — the impersonating URL and a contact address — rather than as an email address. A routing system that only understands email addresses cannot represent this route at all, which is why impersonation cases filed by generic takedown tools tend to arrive somewhere that cannot act on them.
Frequently asked questions
Which reddit.com route is fastest?
The one that matches the actual problem. A correctly routed report of any type moves faster than a copyright notice about an impersonation case, which typically returns nothing at all.
Can I use more than one route?
Yes, where the case genuinely involves more than one problem. A post that both reposts your work and impersonates you belongs in both, filed separately with the right evidence for each.
Do subreddit moderators help?
Sometimes, and it costs little to ask. Moderators can remove a post immediately where the platform routes take longer, though they cannot act on the permalink's search index entry.
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