Where to Submit Your DMCA Notice

The directory below is completely free to browse: direct links to every major platform, marketplace, and host abuse contact, plus the evidence and lookup tools worth using first. Want a formatted PDF/DOCX of your notice? That's $2.99, further down this page.

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How to Find the Right Abuse Contact

Sending a takedown notice to the wrong recipient is the single most common reason notices get ignored. Three different parties can be involved in any given case, and they're not interchangeable.

The platform. If the content lives on a social network, marketplace, or user-generated content site (Instagram, Etsy, TikTok, and similar), that platform's own copyright reporting tool is almost always the fastest path, since they already have a legal intake process built for exactly this situation.

The registrar. This is the company that sold the infringing domain name. Registrars can suspend a domain in cases of clear, repeated abuse, but most won't act on a single straightforward copyright dispute — that's the host's job, not theirs.

The host. This is the company whose servers actually store the infringing site's files. It's usually who you want for an independent website that isn't hosted on a platform. One thing worth knowing: a CDN like Cloudflare is often not the actual host, it just proxies traffic in front of the real server, so reporting to Cloudflare alone frequently won't get content removed. Use a WHOIS lookup or a tool like urlscan.io to identify the true origin server first.

Getting this right matters because the DMCA's safe-harbor obligations only apply to the entity actually storing or transmitting the content. Sending a notice to a party with no legal removal obligation just costs you time while the content stays up.

Submission Directory

Submit your notice directly to these authorized intake channels.

Social Platforms

YouTube Intake Meta Portal TikTok Form X Legal Desk

E-Commerce Marketplaces

Shopify Legal Amazon Registry eBay VeRO Desk

Cloud Hosts & Networks

Cloudflare Abuse Hostinger Form GoDaddy Abuse AWS Abuse Team

Domain Lookup Tools

DomainTools WhoisXML API Hurricane BGP

Need to identify a host from its DNS records? Try urlscan.io.

Your Notice

Carried over from the builder. Copy it into whichever submission form applies to your case.

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Prerequisites

Evidence Gathering Checklist

Do this before you submit, so the page can't be edited to hide the infringement:

Full, uncropped screenshots showing the address bar and the infringing content together.
Exact timestamps and timezone, plus any file names or signatures.
A saved capture via the Wayback Machine or Archive.ph.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Submitting a DMCA Notice

Where do I actually send a DMCA takedown notice?

It depends on where the infringing content lives. Send it to the platform hosting the content directly, or to the web host or registrar if it's on an independent website. Sending it to the wrong party just delays removal.

How do I find out who hosts a website so I can report it?

Use a WHOIS lookup tool to identify the registrar and hosting provider, then submit your notice to that provider's abuse contact address or abuse report form.

Should I keep evidence before I submit my notice?

Yes. Save screenshots showing the full browser address bar and the infringing content together, note the exact date and time, and save an archived copy through a service like the Wayback Machine before the page can be edited or taken down.

Do I need to send separate notices to the platform and the host?

Usually not both at once. Start with whichever one actually controls removal — the platform if it's platform-hosted content, the host if it's an independent site. Escalate to the other only if the first one doesn't respond.

What if I can't find an abuse contact for a host?

Check the host's own terms of service or "report abuse" page first, then try a WHOIS lookup for an admin or abuse email listed in the domain's registration record. As a last resort, most major hosts also accept notices through a general legal or DMCA-specific inbox rather than standard support.

Does using the Wayback Machine or Archive.ph count as legal evidence?

It's strong supporting evidence of what the content looked like and when, though it isn't a substitute for your own screenshots with visible timestamps. Use both together for the strongest record.