What happens after you report.
Every reported domain goes through the same fair, agent-driven process — nobody gets special treatment, and every provider gets a genuine, evidence-backed chance to act before the community escrow pot ever pays out.
Forensic triage
An automated agent classifies the report and figures out who the domain's registrar and host actually are. This happens instantly and privately — nothing is public yet.
Legal notice
An automated, evidence-backed legal notice goes out to the sender, registrar, and host at the same time the domain appears on our public Wall of Shame and a community escrow pot opens. Well-known, cooperative providers get a longer fair-chance window than known bad actors.
Legal escrow
If the window passes with no action, the case moves fully into escrow: verified local law firms can bid for the job, and the lowest qualifying bid is retained automatically the moment the pot can cover it.
Enforced
The retained firm is paid the exact amount on their invoice only after they submit a court order, a registrar suspension notice, or other verifiable proof — never before.
Resolved
A case closes once the provider acts (voluntarily or after legal enforcement) and we've watched the domain stay down, or — if it turns out to be a false alarm — the owner clears their name (see "For domain owners").
The timing scales with how bad a domain's track record is — a first-time slip-up gets more patience than a domain that's been reported over and over.
Watch it happen on the Wall of Shame →