BCCI’s Official Website Offline After Domain Not Renewed

The domain was valid from 2-2-2006 to 2-2-2019. The update date, however, happened to be February 3, 2018. The board's website was dysfunctional until Sunday evening and even more embarrassment as the senior national men's team was playing against South Africa.

New Delhi: While team India was busy dismantling South Africa in the second One-Day International (ODI) in Centurion, BCCI, the richest cricket board in the world, was not been able to renew the domain of its official website www.Bcci.Tv in time. The website was unable owing to the expiry of the domain.

Website registrars register.Com and namejet.Com have put the domain name up for 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 update date, however, happened to be February 3, 2018. The board’s website was dysfunctional until Sunday evening and even more embarrassment as the senior national men’s team was playing against South Africa.

The BCCI website is an important source of live scores across age categories besides putting up key documents regarding the functioning of the board.

Interestingly, as per various reports, the website is owned by former IPL Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi.

In September, the powerful board bagged a USD 2.55 billion for granting the IPL media rights to Star Sports. The board also gets the maximum revenues from the ICC, USD 405 million.

(With PTI inputs)