NEW DELHI – The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which is therichest cricket board in the world, did not renew the domain of itsofficial website www.bcci.tv in time.
Website registrars register.com and namejet.com have put the domain name upfor public bidding, receiving seven bids so far with the highest of USD 270.
The domain was valid from 2-2-2006 to 2-2-2019. The updation date, however,happened to be February 3, 2018. The board’s website was dysfunctionaluntil Sunday evening and even more embarrassment as the senior nationalmen’s team was playing the second ODI against South Africa at the Centurion.
The BCCI website is an important source of live scores across agecategories besides putting up key documents regarding the functioning ofthe board.
In September, the powerful board bagged a USD 2.55 billion for granting theIPL media rights to Star Sports. The board also gets the maximum revenuesfrom the ICC, USD 405 million.