Step by step
- Build the list from the thread, not from one post. A thotsbay.com creator thread accumulates posts over months. Collect every post URL and every external link before filing, because a notice naming one post leaves the rest of the thread intact.
- File on the linked hosts first. The files live elsewhere. Notices to those hosts remove the material itself, and an emptied thotsbay.com thread is a far better outcome than a pending complaint about a forum that has published no process.
- Send the registrar notice with full documentation. The published address behind thotsbay.com is a registrar abuse desk. Send one complete notice naming the URLs, the original work and the dates, and understand it will be read as a registration complaint.
- Report through the network serving the domain. Resolve which network answers for thotsbay.com and file its abuse report. The network forwards to the origin host and to that host's provider, which reaches parties the forum itself does not expose.
- Delist the thread and its pages. A thotsbay.com thread ranks for creator names. Submitting the thread URL and each paginated page for delisting removes the result people actually encounter, independently of the notices.
Where a single notice stops working on thotsbay.com
The thread is the durable object and the links inside it are disposable. A thotsbay.com thread survives every removal of the files it points at, and new posts arrive underneath, so one notice addresses one moment rather than the problem.
openDMCA routes every infringing URL through the Removal Graph — a live map of which hosts actually remove content, how fast, and through which channel — so each takedown takes the shortest path that has historically worked for that host. On thotsbay.com that means the linked hosts are routed individually and the forum is handled as its own low-response surface.
A host whose resolved notices produce removal less than a quarter of the time, measured over ninety days with at least five samples, is fast-pathed to delisting rather than given a second email round.
openDMCA gives the first two hops away: you can open what a §512(c)(3) notice has to contain and run it on a URL of your own, with no account and nothing uploaded.
One thing that catches people out on thotsbay.com
The abuse address published behind thotsbay.com belongs to a large registrar that handles registration abuse across millions of domains, which means a copyright notice about one thread arrives in a queue built for a different class of complaint. It is worth one complete, evidenced filing and is not worth the four follow-ups a creator would otherwise spend chasing it.