A thotsbay.com thread refills under the same URL: the links are removed, new posts arrive, and nothing about the page address changes. Monitoring has to watch the thread's contents rather than its existence, and each new link is a separate host that needs its own notice.
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.
Removal route demo for thotsbay.com, reuploads job.
Step by step
Watch contents, not availability. A thotsbay.com thread returns a page whether or not it contains anything working. Checking that it loads is not a check; checking whether new links have appeared is.
Route each new link individually. New posts point at new hosts. One complaint about the thread does not remove any of them, and each host has its own contact, its own process and its own history of responding.
Keep a single running record for the thread. Log the thotsbay.com thread once and append every round of links beneath it. That accumulated record is the evidence that turns individual complaints into a demonstrated pattern.
Escalate on the pattern rather than the page. When a thread refills repeatedly, the report to the network and the registrar is about a persistent pattern with dates attached, which is a materially different document from a single-page complaint.
Add new thread pages to the delisting list. The thread URL does not change as it refills, but new paginated pages appear, and each of those is a new search result that the earlier request does not cover.
The honest limit of monitoring a thotsbay.com thread
openDMCA re-checks known URLs daily and reopens anything that returned, so a thotsbay.com thread stays under observation rather than being closed after one successful round. New links found inside it enter the queue as their own leaks with their own routes.
What no service can do is stop someone posting. Nothing openDMCA runs prevents a new link appearing in a thotsbay.com thread; what changes is the delay before it is routed, and whether a creator spends her evening finding it.
openDMCA gives the first two hops away: you can open see whether a removed URL returned and run it on a URL of your own, with no account and nothing uploaded.
One thing that catches people out on thotsbay.com
openDMCA throttles outbound mail to one message per recipient per client in any twenty-four hour window, which on a refilling thotsbay.com thread means the round's new links are batched into one notice per host rather than trickling out as separate emails through the day. The throttle is a deliverability decision, not a rate limit on the work: the queue still runs every thirty minutes.
Frequently asked questions
Why does the thotsbay.com thread never close?
The thread is a container organised around a creator rather than a single upload. Emptying it removes the material; it does not stop new posts arriving underneath the same URL.
Is re-filing worth the effort?
Yes, because the second and third rounds document a pattern. At the network and registrar rungs a repeated, dated complaint is treated very differently from a first report about one page.
Can any service prevent the repost?
No, and openDMCA does not claim to. Monitoring finds a repost quickly; nothing stops a third party posting into a forum thread in the first place.
Check whether a URL you already reported has come back — free, no account.