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Suddenly since February it has remained inactive. No reports, no new ICOs. Nothing.

Is it dead?

I see also ICObench no any update since February but i believe soon come back  ICObench team i hope update there site and soon come back strongly

I think no dead there alive

Icobench become my favorite site to check how trusted an ICO project and looking good information about bounty campaign, some time I got many coin received payment from bounty campaign and getting good information from ICObench, but very sadness when ICO bench have stop working and not update new ICO information rating score.

Yes it is. This platform rarely giving a new update about the latest ico since someone has already revealed its scam business and after more and more icos were not interested to work with ico bench caused by its reputation has already ruined

https://medium.com/alethena/this-is-how-easy-it-is-to-buy-ico-ratings-an-investigation-13d07e987394

I suggest you move to the cryptorank or icodrop

People lost their trust on review sites especially ICObench because bitcointalk community exposed they are giving fake reviews and decieving investors money and also not much of legit bounties are active so they have no reason to be existing here.

Exactly, something similar happened with all the ICO rating sites out there.

You have to understand that this is not like S&P or Moodys where they rate Bonds. Even they are heavily bribed to keep those bonds on the top, but nobody is there to investigate and punish them. Here the impetus comes from the community, where people are seeing the failure that ICOs and IEOs have been.

Added to that is the worthlessness of the tokens that have been sold. ICObench even used a "Premium" system to list new ICOs on top of their page for more viewership. All these things led to some problems within the community and thus you can understand how it went down.

I am sure they are still there just their digital footprint is lagging now. I am also sure they will be back soon with a new persona.

The website's purpose is to give ratings to upcoming or current ICOs. But what's with ICOs these days? it's not a question anymore because we are all aware that there are no longer good ICO this time. The market for ICO started to become low and that's one guess that you can consider for why ICO bench became inactive.
They have no more customers to be reviewed since the community is no longer dealt with ICOs.

I hope ICObench is not dead because this is the place where I look for reviews of ICO that I'm interested to support. My guess is that maybe there is no good ICO to review that's why it's quiet these past months.

If you dont see any updates or activeness from them then you can presume out already that they are dead which isnt really that a surprising thing.Why?
ICO market is dead and theres no reason for them to continue their service on listing out projects since most of them wont really be paying up something
just for them to be reviewed or getting listed and also people wont really be visiting out these kind of places just for them to check out ICO investment recommendations.
So its just normal for them to stop operation due to this kind of situation where ICO era is already dead.

maybe they don't receive any new project want to be listed in that website to make a ratings .

And other reasons I think is because there is only few project make by Feb this year until now this is just another reasons why they can't add a new project.

I didn't even notice that until seeing this post. Seem the ICO market is dead and they have no project coming there way because of their fee. They are known to have misled investors with their fake reviews. All they care after is money and less research about project after that.
They could do a little rebrand and name themselves IEObench.

True! Ive watched how they really took advantage of the 2017-2018 ICO fever. Moreover their advisers likely do some feedback only on those paid ICOs. I remember there is a project called TradeIO which is good but on their ratings it really low value but its not shocking cause they only give positive ratings on thosw who paid them.

They are really accepting money to post good review. I work with one of there advisors and he tell that issue that's why he leave so that he can protect his reputation. Imagine there are a of failed/exit scam that get a 5.0 rating there and there ratings is also affected by the advisors feelings itself.

 I remember when I work to some project and my task was to list project there for ICO promotion. One of the advisors has some past arguments to my boss and he gave us a 2.0 rating while others gave 4.8 on average.

They are totally shit benchmark website for ICO because they didn't screen there panel at all. They hire whoever a member of a well-known project even though that project is garbage. I think they will even hire Carlos Matos if he apply there.

I think ICO rating websites will definitely be out of business, no one use them anymore because they can't be trusted, if they are inactive already then they've know that there are lesser traffic on their websites, ICOs are done

Considering they were basically a paid promo site for ico's, no wonder they're out of business.

Only 1 in 10 ico's today is legit, and scam ico's (those cheap scams mind you) don't invest money anymore in fake reviews.

Basically yeah but they had a very comfortable way of finding and tracking ICOs.

Good thing that ICObench completely shut down for good. The only left with strong rating site is ICOdrops and also they are active on telegram channel and keeps sharing news and article on different cryptocurrent events. I like how they handle more than this rating site.

I used it more often before to check ratings of the projects but seen how unfair their ratings given stopped it a long time already.   

they arent dead because thier site is still functioning i just check it now because i got curious .  for me dead means the site was totally offline but if the site is still working that means they still have a plans  . not familiar with the site but they say its a review site for ico , means they must review all kinds of ico and not just the good one . they shouldnt be biased because people will doubt on them . not seeing a good ico to review isnt the reason why they dont give updates

If a business doesn't receive contract for a long, what do you think would happen to it? It's going to shut. Rebranding is the best option here because if they continue to expect to get an ICO that will will list on their site, they might not get any, and they will run out of money because they will pay their workers and do maintenance.

Icobench dot com is alive and running perfectly but with low updates, I guess this is happening because there aren't new ICO projects anymore, IEO took over but icobench team aren't that showing interest

I believe their owners has been changed, The new owner are not that much active in the market or they have spending clients funds on leisure activities.

Icobench should be out of business, I don't expect anything new from them because people have seen how untrustworthy rating websites are, investors prefer doing research themselves now rather than checking rating websites

I paid for a team kyc for one of the projects I advise and have not gotten a response for months.

I think after the popularity of IEO , STO and IDO , ico rating sites are no more in demand. I think either they are reinventing the site or have left the project.

I used to visit this website regularly. They were among the top ICO websites at the height of the industry boom. Many sites had cashed in on the trend of listings fast...
To be fair ICObench had its fair bit of accusations. Potential fake reviews, heavy criticism on who they approved as reviewers and they likely turned a blind eye to paid reviewers too.

Now that the ICO boom is over by all means, they are likely figuring out how they could re-optimize their business. Probably there weren't many avenues to continue operation after business dropped and revenues couldn't sustain their costs. Likely they fired the few employees they had and the owners milk on the some income for the ads. Maybe after the pandemic it could make a comeback as a different business. Or maybe not. The owners maybe because rich and didn't care to upkeep the business anymore.

No matter what the reason is, this place is pretty much dead to me since ICO nowadays arent really taking off much a hit.

Icobench played a big role in many ICO projects that went side ways in 2017 and again they start manipulating projects rating, they can't be trusted and many investors realized that after losing much money, ICO era has come to an end

You should do a lot of research not because There is no new ICO to review but because no ICO is paying them anymore to get good reviews and ratings, in their heyday, there are a lot of bad reports that they accept money for giving good reviews and high rating to projects that turn out to be scams, they become scam promoter because of their being a paid shill.

Theyve ruined up their reputation but to think that it was just a good call for them to accept while it last because ICO turn out to be shit after several years.Im not saying that the thing they had done was right

but they might really intended it since from the start. Projects turns out to be scam in most cases and they had made some money out of that time and even if they do make their

service as honest as  possible then they wont still exist as of these years because ICO is no longer more a thing or doesnt get that much serious attention at the moment.

not only icobench but almost all rating sites also do this...
now it is very difficult to make rating sites a good bounty benchmark, almost all they provide are ICO scams, searching and researching themselves, which ICO we want to follow is the best way now.

Latest events:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5258384.msg54690987
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5261649.0

The saga continues....

I thought that they already left and has to declare the closure of the website. But as I've visited them, they are still alive and even have some featured ICO on their front page.

they seem to only prioritize projects that pay them without seeing whether the project is good or not, I haven't visited their website in a long time, because I haven't seen an ico / ieo review on their website anymore, and hopefully icodrops can choose a good project for them put on the website list

in my opinion it's been too long especially since it's been 5 months if until now there is no update and at all it is most likely indeed dead, but if there is a message or update updated via email or social media over the past 5 months maybe it's still preparation or maybe there are still obstacles that can't be resolved yet,