Dmoz.org is corrupt... Find your category editor in the forums. Offer your offline email address and state that you want advice on a "sensitive issue" and to contact you from an unaffiliated email... then say that you know it takes time and effort to make things happen and make an offer... Not for the link, but for the assistance in properly navigating the process that leads to getting listed. Half of DMOZ is managed by black hatters that don't want to share the google boost. At least that is probably the case in all the categories that matter. If dmoz was a "honest" directory they would make all the links nofollow to maintain the honesty of the data. Now it just doesn't allow new entries for 2 reasons. 1st... it costs more to manage more data and they are at the limit they can afford to maintain, and 2nd... their primary asset is google boost, not authoritative indexes, which is why their categories are stale and useless and full of dead links and parked domains. That is also why Google distanced themselves from it a few years back. It spun out of control.