Site no longer shows ads related to mobile phones.
Cricket.com owner Global Cricket Ventures hasn’t formally responded to Cricket Communications’ lawsuit over the domain name Cricket.com — at least in court.
But it has drastically changes its web site to eliminate all references and ads related to mobile phones.
The site is now just a bare bones one page web site with a couple news feeds about cricket and a score board. Gone is the fantasy cricket offering and any attempt to be a “real” web site. But also gone are the many ads for cell phones.
Cricket Communications claimed Global Cricket Ventures was intentionally trading on its goodwill by masquerading as cricket sports site. The site used to have a number of ads for mobile phones. According to Cricket Communications, one of the ads was actually a hard coded Cricket Communications logo placed over a skyscraper banner.
The lawsuit will probably continue to be slowly creep forward given that Global Cricket Ventures is based on the island nation of Mauritius.
Stuart Wood says
Hard-coded ad. Whoof. Done.
kandyjet says
Thanks for the update. The site shows very old cricket scores like live scores for the matches that were finished months ago. The news feed in the Headlines column shows very old cricket news (the top one is almost 3 months old). only change i see is the adsense have gone 😀
Cricket watch says
Its a big shame that Cricket.com is showing outdated cricket score results. The worlds’ hottest sports domain has made a stagnant failure.