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That doesn't matter. Impressumspflicht means it's your pflicht to have an Impressum. You can also get an Abmahnung as an individual.

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That is in principle correct, but since OP is using a throwaway and a know anonymous domain service. As long as he burns bridges after himself (eg. not making it into a adressable business later), there is not individual to deliver a letter to.

Might work for a while, but a dangerous game to play...

It’s a bit more nuanced, you don’t need a Impressum for purely personal websites without financial background. Evaluating a business idea would probably count as financial motive though, even if it isn’t currently monetized.

The economics don't matter, everything that is regularly updated or offers a service needs an Impressum. The exception for "purely personal or familial" use clearly doesn't apply here because a service is being provided actively.

Here’s the law: https://dejure.org/gesetze/TMG/5.html

It mandates a Impressum for „ geschäftsmäßige, in der Regel gegen Entgelt angebotene Telemedien“. If it’s not geschäftsmäßig (Business-Like?), you don’t need an Impressum. If you do it for free without any intention to make money now or later, it’s not geschäftsmäßig.

If I have a blog that I update regularly but don’t have any ads from or take donations for, I don’t need an Impressum.

Impressumspflicht only applies for commercial interests. If you are a company informing or even selling something, if you are an influencer making money of yourself, or even if you just have ads on your Pokemon-fanpage, then it counts as commercial interest.

But I don't see any direct monetary value on this site at the moment. There is not even a reputation-gain, as there is no personal information. So Impressumspflicht would not apply.

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