I encounter a site once in a while like you describe.
I have gotten results by notifying the upstream chain.
GoDaddy has a form response that as Registrar, it's not their concern... but I remind them that they have a responsibility to know the validity of their Registrants' Contact information. If they (GoDaddy) are not out busy shooting Lions in Africa.
And, YES, the worst Pirate is Ebay. I am currently in a row with Ebay over their company "Half.com", which is selling my print books on Ebay for DOUBLE the cost on Amazon.
I remind them that 10 years ago, Meg Whitman ran for California Governor. After several sappy TV commercials about "Remember me, I used to run Ebay, and you LOVED Ebay," Voters said: "GFY"... Especially us adult sellers, who rode the rollercoaster of having our prints, books, DVDs taken down, one day for nudity on the cover, the next for nudity in the content... etc. And then the next week, big reputation sellers could list...
I've been doing DMCA Take Downs on my own 200 eBooks and 400 DVD Videos, in earnest since 2012, and back to 2005 when I signed up for my first VOD with AEBN and HotMovies... I now do DMCA Take Downs for others. No two projects are exactly the same, and I don't charge in advance.
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