The removal library.
Working notes from inside the practice — what comes down, under which statute, and when counsel is the right tool.
§ 01 · Problem type
Defamation & articles
“Someone has published an article about us.”
- 01 Negative articles about your company on the first page of Google You searched your own brand and the first results are attacks. Here is what removal, deindexing and suppression each actually do, what you can attempt yourself, and when a counsel-filed statute route is the answer.
- 02 A website demands payment to remove an article about you. Do not pay. How pay-to-delete "news" sites operate, why paying marks you as a repeat target, and how removal under named statute — defamation, GDPR Article 17, host and registrar filings — actually works.
§ 02 · Problem type
Clones & impersonation
“There's a copy of our brand taking our customers.”
- 01 How to find the real host behind Cloudflare — and where to send an abuse notice A clone or defamatory site sits behind Cloudflare, so the WHOIS dead-ends. Here is how to identify the true hosting provider, find the right abuse address, and file a notice that actually moves — plus where this approach hits its limits.
- 02 You reported it and nothing happened. What now. You flagged the fake account, the clone site or the article through the platform's own form — and got an automated rejection or silence. Why that happens, what escalation actually exists, and when a counsel-filed route is the next step.
§ 03 · Problem type
Vendor & pricing
“We need to choose who actually does this.”
- 01 DMCA takedown cost: how pricing actually works Per-URL, per-domain, hourly and retainer pricing for DMCA takedowns compared honestly — what drives the cost, where the $199 services fit, and why per-URL maths collapses on real campaigns.
- 02 Why honest practices do not promise "guaranteed" Google removal What sits behind "guaranteed deindexing" and "pay after removal" offers, the grey routes that produce those guarantees, what realistic success rates look like, and how to vet a removal vendor.
- 03 Red Points, Corsearch & DMCA.com alternatives: SaaS monitoring vs counsel-filed removal An honest comparison of the two models for fighting brand abuse online — automated SaaS detection (Red Points, Corsearch) and self-serve filing (DMCA.com) versus counsel-filed removal under named statute. Which fits which problem.