When the world's richest cricket body almost lost its site for a meagre sum of Rs 17,000

NEW DELHI: BCCI, the richest cricket board in the world, was not able to renew the domain of its official website www.bcci.tv in time, after which the site went offline.

Website registrars register.com and namejet.com had put the domain name up for public bidding, receiving seven bids with the highest of USD 270.

However, the website is working fine now and it appears that the BCCI has resolved the issue.


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 dysfunctional till Sunday evening and even more embarrassment as the senior national men's team was playing the second ODI against South Africa at the Centurion.

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

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.