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Originally Posted by paully However, do you think we are pushing our luck to ask for any compensation considering they were fine with the domain for 9 months |
Yes

.. Ask, as a compromise, that they take control of the domain but redirect all links and traffic to your new site. You'll get out of the Google sandbox quicker using a new domain.
If that's still no go, just hand it over and move on.
racketzone.co.uk is dropping in a week's time btw