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It really depends in which way they complained to Hetzner. Write a stern email? Hetzner could forward it to you and give time to respond. Preliminary injunction (not uncommon in trademark cases), they'd have no choice in that matter.

Generally, I would recommend not hosting APIs on the primary domain for exactly that reason - it's too easy to be hit with some sort of complaint and have that domain cut off (DMCA, preliminary injunction, SPAM complaint against your mail server, shitty host, ...).



> Write a stern email?

exactly what happened. so not even the slightest reason for an immediate reaction

> recommend not hosting APIs

yes! we learned the hard way :)




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