A legal notice claiming copyright infringement under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act, demanding a domain be seized, suspended, or content removed. Issued by copyright holders or their lawyers; registrars in US jurisdiction usually comply within days, no hearing required.
The DMCA takedown is not a court order. It's a unilateral claim. Registrars treat it as liability exposure and comply reflexively to stay under safe harbor. If you host on a US registrar with a US registry, your domain can vanish on someone's assertion alone.
Common abuse: false claims, competitive harassment, suppression of legitimate speech. Counter-notices exist but require perjury risk and lawyer money. Most people just lose the domain.
Bunkerdomains doesn't reply to DMCA notices. We're outside US jurisdiction. Your domain stays live unless a court order lands—actual court order, not a letter. Same goes for our upstream registries: they operate under different legal regimes where DMCA has no teeth.