By the way, what about your domain? At least you can salvage one of them, and only the domains I think can be reclaimed. Have you reported your case to the hosting provider? Also, if you did it on an auction site, don't they act as escrow as well?
Yeah, honestly it looked like something someone set up based on some pre-purchased script (I think I've seen it on Codecanyon now that I think of it). Like I said, ultimately I got over excited, couldn't help but think of that large payday at the end of it all. Let me put it this way, Fishy means STOP when it comes to crypto transactions.
I didn't even think to contact the hosting provider, because I assumed the domain transfer was a totally done deal, but I'll be doing that shortly so hopefully they'll be able to help me out somehow! At the every least, this was only one of several domains I own that are purportedly rather valuable. Hopefully I can get it back, but if it can be suspended even, that'd be some kind of justice.
And yes, the auction site did definitely provide escrow services. But I was suckered in by the scammers claims of having problems moving money internationally. Looking back, I was seriously overlooking a myriad of red-flags, but again, all I could think about was the several thousand dollar payday I was getting at the end of it. Like I said, never, ever, EVER! give anyone the benefit of the doubt. Don't learn the hard way like I did, trust me.