These figures are computed live from the domains that have been checked with DMCA Detector. They are recalculated on every page load, so what you see below is current as of 2026-10-02.
How to read this — and how not to
- This is a self-selected sample: domains that somebody chose to check. People check domains they are already worried about, so the share showing removal activity is almost certainly higher here than across the web at large.
- It is not a survey of the internet, and it should not be quoted as one.
- "Requests on record" counts requests that name a domain. It does not mean URLs were removed — Google declines a meaningful share of requests.
- Figures cover Google Search only, and exclude notices sent by fax, by letter, or directly to a host.
The corpus
| Domains checked | 138 |
| Domains with at least one request on record | 48 (34.8%) |
| Domains with activity in the last 12 months | 38 (27.5%) |
| Total requests across the corpus | 4,529 |
| Median requests, among affected domains | 116 |
| Highest request count on a single domain | 193 |
| Earliest request date seen | 2011-04-05 |
| Most recent request date seen | 2026-05-04 |
How request counts are distributed
Removal activity is heavily skewed. Most domains have nothing on record; a small number carry a large share of the total, which is what you would expect when a handful of enforcement vendors file at scale.
| Requests on record | Domains | Share of corpus |
|---|---|---|
| No requests on record | 90 | 65.2% |
| 1–5 requests | 9 | 6.5% |
| 6–25 requests | 6 | 4.3% |
| 26–100 requests | 6 | 4.3% |
| More than 100 requests | 27 | 19.6% |
What this tells you
- A zero result is the normal result. Most domains checked have no requests on record at all, so finding nothing is not a sign the check failed.
- Volume alone says little. A high request count on a large, old domain can be routine. A single request naming a revenue page matters more.
- Recency is the signal worth watching. Historic activity rarely needs action; requests arriving now often come in sequences.
- Notification is conditional. Google messages verified Search Console owners about removals affecting their own URLs, but says meaningful notice for Search is "extremely difficult" — and nothing reaches you for domains you have not verified.
Method
Each time a domain is checked, DMCA Detector stores a guest-safe summary of what Google's public copyright-removal records show for it: the number of requests naming the domain, the first and most recent request dates, and activity over the last 12 months. This page aggregates those summaries. No personal data, no account data and no query history is included, and individual users are not identifiable from any figure here.
Source data is Google's published copyright-removal data for Search, with additional notice detail from Lumen where available. Both are public. You can verify any individual domain yourself by checking it.