youtube.com takes reports through published forms rather than an abuse mailbox, and a copyright claim about a video is a different form from a report about a channel impersonating you. The first asks about a work; the second asks about the channel's identity.
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.
Separate the video problem from the channel problem. A copied video is copyright. A youtube.com channel built around your name and likeness is impersonation. The same channel often involves both, and each has its own form.
Use the published routes rather than a registry address. openDMCA holds the youtube.com impersonation report as a curated form rather than an address, because a contact resolved from the domain registry cannot act on platform content.
Assemble the evidence each form needs. The copyright form needs watch URLs and your original's location. The impersonation form needs the channel URL, your own channel and the identity being copied. They do not overlap.
Group URLs into one report per problem. List every youtube.com URL sharing a problem in a single report. Splitting them slows each and hides the repetition that makes the case.
Keep the reference for follow-up. Record the youtube.com submission reference and date. A follow-up quoting the reference continues the case; a fresh report describing the same thing restarts it.
Why youtube.com is a form route rather than an address
A platform whose processes are forms with required fields cannot be reached through an email address. openDMCA stores youtube.com as a form-type route with its field list, so a report is dispatched to something able to act on it.
That also means no registry lookup is attempted for the domain. The abuse desk a lookup returns belongs to the domain registration chain and has no authority over a video or a channel.
openDMCA gives the first two hops away: you can open look a host's contact up yourself and run it on a URL of your own, with no account and nothing uploaded.
One thing that catches people out on youtube.com
The youtube.com impersonation route in openDMCA's routing table expects the complainant's own channel URL alongside the impersonating one, which is a field no other impersonation route in the table asks for. A creator without a channel of her own has to establish the identity another way, and discovering that inside the form is what causes the abandonment.
Frequently asked questions
Is there an email address for youtube.com reports?
The published routes are forms. An address resolved from the domain registry belongs to the registration chain and cannot act on platform content.
What if I do not have my own channel?
The impersonation route expects one as evidence of the identity being copied. Establishing identity another way is possible, and openDMCA does not advise on what will satisfy the requirement.
Can I file both routes at once?
Yes, where a channel both uses your work and presents as you. They reach separate processes and neither acts on the other's evidence.
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