Breaking/Brief news
April 21, 2010
Johnson Cherian, Lalit Modi and a couple of domains
Over 3 years ago, I'd written about one of the BCCI's domains - bcciratings.com. The domain was registered under a name 'Johnson Cherian'. I now notice that the domain has Lalit Modi as an administrative and technical contact.
Tinu Cherian reckons that the ownership details of iplt20.com changed on 19 April.
I don't think his reasoning is right. The 'Updated 1 hour ago' entry he points to merely indicates that the whois server fetched the data 1 hour ago. Just click on the "Refresh" link to see the last update details change.
But yes, the larger issue is that iplt20.com and clt20.com (the Champions Twenty20 League domain) are owned by someone from Modi Entertainment Network, even though the BCCI's address is provided.
So, is Johnson Cherian someone who works for Lalit Modi at the BCCI office? He does seem to work at Modi Entertainment Network, since he is listed as the administrative contact for modi.com as well.
In passing, you can actually go and buy the iplt20.com domain. The whois record indicates the domain expired over a month ago.
For the record, just in case the ownership data changes, here's what the whois information looks like:
iplt20.com
Registrant
Email:
Organization: BCCI/IPL
Address: CRICKET CENTER,WANKHEDE STADIUM,CHURCHGATE
City: Mumbai
State: Maharashtra
Country: IN
Postal Code: 400020
Phone: +91.2222800300
Fax:
Name: bcci ipl
Domain : iplt20.com
Administrative Contact :
Name: bcci
Organization: BCCI/IPL
Address: CRICKET CENTER,WANKHEDE STADIUM,CHURCHGATE
City: Mumbai
State: Maharashtra
Postal Code: 400020
Country: IN
Phone: +91.2222800300
Fax: 0
Email:
Technical Contact :
Name: bcci
Organization: BCCI/IPL
Address: CRICKET CENTER,WANKHEDE STADIUM,CHURCHGATE
City: Mumbai
State: Maharashtra
Postal Code: 400020
Country: IN
Phone: +91.2222800300
Fax: 0
Email:
Created on.......: 2008-03-14
Expired on.......: 2012-03-14
Last updated on..: 2009-01-14
clt20.com
Registrant :
Email:
Organization: NA
Address: BCCI,Cricket Center,Churchgate
City: Mumbai
State: Maharashtra
Country: IN
Postal Code: 400020
Phone: +91.1111111
Fax:
Name: Lalit Modi
Domain : clt20.com
Administrative Contact :
Name: Lalit
Organization: NA
Address: BCCI.Cricket Center,Churchgate
City: Mumbai
State: Maharashtra
Postal Code: 400020
Country: IN
Phone: +91.2266637373
Fax: 0
Email:
Technical Contact :
Name: Lalitk
Organization: NA
Address: BCCI.Cricket Center,Churchgate
City: Mumbai
State: Maharashtra
Postal Code: 400025
Country: IN
Phone: +91.2266637373
Fax: 0
Email:
Created on.......: 2009-02-05
Expired on.......: 2013-02-05
Last updated on..: 2010-01-12
Labels: conflict of interest, domain, indian premier league, ipl 2010, lalit modi, website
Thus spake Jagadish @ 12:50 am | Sledge/Read 2 sledge(s)
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September 29, 2008
ICL, IPL, Bangladesh cricket and a BCCI website!
A fortnight or so ago, six Bangladesh cricketers sent in their resignation letters to the Bangladesh Cricket Board, to join the Indian Cricket League and play as a team called the 'Dhaka Warriors'.
The board responded by banning them for 10 years. But it was pretty obvious that Bangladesh cricket was in serious shit. Big brother, the BCCI, stepped in to help out. How did the BCCI help? It offered to include more Bangladesh players in the 2009 edition of the Indian Premier League and a Bangladesh team in the 2010 Twenty20 Champions League.
The BCCI's decision is so ridiculous. The Bangladesh Cricket Board does not benefit when its players play in the IPL, or the Champions League. The players do. At this point in time, no cricket board gets any payment for releasing its contracted players for the IPL.
Perhaps the better option for the BCB would have been to get the BCCI to agree to a rapidly scheduled home-and-away test & ODI series. Bangladesh was to have played tests in India in April 2005. That then got postponed, so often, that no-one seriously expects it to materialize.
In a path-breaking, breathtaking and least-anticipated development last week, the BCCI launched its website (www.bcci.tv) over a decade ahead of schedule. One of the first few decisions taken by the outgoing BCCI President, Mr. Sharad Pawar, was to target a 2020 launch of the BCCI's own website.
It's perhaps apt to mention though that during the 2006 edition of the ICC Champions Trophy, you could buy tickets on www.bcci.tv. After that tournament, the site lay dormant, until it sprung to life over the weekend!
Amazingly enough, it even has RSS feeds for press releases and cricket news!
Labels: bangladesh, bcci, india, indian cricket league, indian premier league, ipl 2009, twenty20, website
Thus spake Jagadish @ 7:55 am | Sledge/Read 3 sledge(s)
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November 16, 2006
The BCCI's domains
A year ago, I wrote about the ICC's domains.
I found the BCCI's ratings and awards site today. A 'WHOIS' lookup reveals quite a few things.
Registrant:The domain is 'owned' by Modi Entertainment Network. No prizes for guessing the identity of the chairman of Modi Enterprises, the parent company of Modi Entertainment Network.
Johnson Cherian
Modi Entertainment Network Ltd
3rd floor Nirlon House, Dr A.B Road
Worli Dadar (W).
Mumbai, Maharashatra 400039
IN
Registrar: NameSecure.com
Domain: BCCIRATINGS.COM
Created on 08-29-2006
Expires on 08-29-2009
Administrative Contact:
Johnson Cherian
Phone: 66637555
E-mail: jcherian-mwc@modi.com
Technical Contact:
Namesecure Inc.
Phone: 570-708-8418
E-mail: support@namesecure.com
Name Servers:
NS5.INDIALINKS.COM 70.87.144.130
NS6.INDIALINKS.COM 70.85.222.226
The administrators at the BCCI have probably not realized the importance of ownership of such a domain name. While I don't necessarily doubt Lalit Modi's intentions, the BCCI could end up on thin ice a few years later.
Labels: bcci, domain, lalit modi, website
Thus spake Jagadish @ 4:35 pm | Sledge/Read 1 sledge(s)
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October 18, 2005
The ICC's domains
Ok this isn't really anything about cricket per se. But it is about the ICC.
The ICC's website redirects to www.cricketratings.com for the cricket rankings, sponsored by a South Korean electronics giant. Several links within that page redirected to www.sidlothian.com! I noticed this several months ago, but I didn't blog about it. Here goes.
The whois listing for cricketratings.com has Benedict Bermange (benedict at bermange.com) as being the registrant. sidlothian.com has Sid Lothain (not Lothian?!) as the registrant. The ICC's website icc-cricket.com is shown as being owned by 'International Cricket Council, Lords Cricket Ground, The Clock Tower, St Johns wood Road, London NW8 8QN, UK' and Mukesh Karsan (mukesh at icc-cricket.com) as being the Technical/Administrative contact.
Are either of those two affiliated to the ICC? Going by the whois information, there is no evidence to suggest that either of those two work for the ICC. Why does cricketratings.com have content from sidlothian.com? Why isn't the ICC listing it's Dubai address? Will the ICC eventually buy out the cricketratings.com domain?
Thus spake Jagadish @ 8:29 pm | Sledge/Read 1 sledge(s)
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