Stefan Mileschin

Benchmark Reviews is now Tech Playboy
Benchmark Reviews was born at its own domain back on March 2007, and built into a popular website with thousands of product review articles written by dozens of authors and published over the course of twelve years. That domain, along with many others I purchased over the years, belonged to websites that were hosted at different providers depending on hardware needs, but all domains were managed through the same registrar.

On October 2018, I decided to place the techplayboy.com domain for sale at a modest price, as the project had gone without updates for several years. This would have been a non-event, but unfortunately one day after posting that domain for sale it was somehow replaced in their system with benchmarkreviews.com. Needless to say, a fully developed domain with plenty of trust and traffic sold instantly for far less than it would have been valued.

No email was generated, and I was never notified. After many long hours on the phone, it became clear that a technical issue caused the sales cancellation of techplayboy and replaced it with benchmarkreviews. It was only after I received a sold notification that I learned benchmarkreviews was the domain in question. The provider claimed they could not reverse the sale, even though I contacted them only moments later. After many days spent attempting to retain the domain, it was clear I was not getting it back. A week later Google notified me of a new owner for the domain, and although I sent emails offering to buy back the domain, my messages were not responded to.

http://madshrimps.blogspot.com/2018/...h-playboy.html