A registry lookup for thotsbay.com returns a registrar's abuse desk. That address is real and monitored, but its remit is the domain registration rather than a thread. The parties who can act on content are the file hosts each thread links to and the network answering for the domain.
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.
Resolve the domain before writing anything. Run the lookup on thotsbay.com rather than assuming an address. The published result names a registrar, and knowing that before drafting changes what the notice should ask for.
Write to the registrar as a registrar. A complaint framed around repeated, evidenced infringement across a domain is within a registrar's world. A complaint about one thotsbay.com post is not, and is the version that gets closed without action.
Collect the linked hosts as the working contact list. Each host a thotsbay.com thread links to publishes its own route, and several of them are monitored. That set, not the forum, is where most removals on this surface actually come from.
Find the network serving the domain. Resolve which network answers for thotsbay.com and use its published abuse process. Networks forward reports to the origin host and its provider, reaching parties the forum never exposes.
Keep the delisting request moving in parallel. Search delisting for thotsbay.com thread URLs needs no contact at all. It is the only rung whose outcome does not depend on any of these parties choosing to reply.
What openDMCA records when a lookup for thotsbay.com answers
The resolver runs a curated routing table, then a shared contact cache, then a registry lookup, then the conventional abuse mailbox — and stores which rung produced the recipient. For thotsbay.com the registry rung answers, so the recorded recipient is a registrar and the notice is filed knowing that.
Storing the rung is what separates a host that ignored a notice from a host that never received one. Those two produce identical silence and require completely different next steps, which is why openDMCA measures the difference instead of guessing at 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 thotsbay.com
Registry lookups return a registrar's abuse desk for thotsbay.com but nothing at all for the .su forums creators hit alongside it, so the same scan produces two structurally different contact results in the same session. A creator who concludes from the thotsbay.com result that every forum has a reachable address will spend the next evening waiting on mailboxes that were never published.
Frequently asked questions
Is the registrar address worth writing to?
Once, with complete documentation. It is a monitored address, which already puts it ahead of most surfaces in this ecosystem, but its powers are narrow and repeated filings do not widen them.
Why does the forum publish no contact?
Nothing published explains it, and openDMCA does not speculate about intent. What is verifiable is that no contact appears, which is why the network and the linked hosts carry the routing.
Can I file without giving my address?
A notice needs a complainant. Filed through openDMCA as an authorized agent, the agent's details appear on the notice. Filing personally means your own contact details go to the recipient.
Resolve the contact for a host you are dealing with — free, no account.