Exactly, why would any of you look at that website and think it was genuine. If you were trying a fast one a school class of 10year old could create something more convincing. It’s an unusual situation for sure, not the normal way when you look at the rest of the league. A short sponsorship deal is a drop in the bucket for us and unlikely to sink us on its own. Everything here is conjecture and speculation. I’ll be waiting for confirmation of the facts before I decide whether this is a good or bad week.
They have some pictures of SMS on there now as well as a video clip of Ralph and some goal celebrations from this season. Must be genuine
Even the higher-ups could figure out a password-protected subdomain. Set it as a bookmark and pin the login to their suit, heh. It's how the tiny-ass company I work for handled things, because it allowed some of us to feature test without having to teach 60 year olds how to set up a remote connection to access our servers from off-site, and without our customer potentially stumbling on the site and trying to order from the nonfunctional storefront. The issue isn't that the mockup showed their goals; it shows what seems like an entirely different business from that being mooted. And it shows rather a clumsy approach that the website address involved the company's name...you just threw your brand out there to the world, they're going to search for your name. And when they search for your name, they're going to find a bizarre and contradictory site. Why not, I dunno, have a website up that has some information about who you are and what you do? A basic social media presence? Anything that says We Are A Company That Does Business Things?
So I put LDSport into the internet time machine, came up with an alibaba link. Google ldsports and alibaba and you get this https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/ld-sport.html 4000 products. Suppliers and mufacturers of sport equipment and clothing. Could be them. Could be a huge business worldwide and like every big outlet on amazon, they won’t need a company website as they trade through alibaba. More speculation but at least it’s a company with a revenue stream.
What is the value of this deal?? Regardless of whether they’re dodgy, or genuine with the website on the way, the whole thing is a bit amateurish. Why not wait a week or two and have a proper website/better mock-up.
Just gone on the website and it is definitely a mock up - if a bit amateur. http doesn't redirect to https like all sites so I get a nice 'this site is not secure' warning - still better that having a mismatch on the certificate. Also the site is http://www.ldsports.uk not .co.uk, that site isn't up yet. Domain name: ldsports.uk Data validation: Nominet was not able to match the registrant's name and/or address against a 3rd party source on 13-Mar-2019 Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLP. [Tag = GODADDY] URL: http://uk.godaddy.com Relevant dates: Registered on: 13-Mar-2019 Expiry date: 13-Mar-2020 Last updated: 08-May-2019 Registration status: Registered until expiry date. Name servers: dell.ns.cloudflare.com lakas.ns.cloudflare.com Domain name: ldsports.co.uk Data validation: Nominet was able to match the registrant's name and address against a 3rd party data source on 11-Jul-2017 Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLP. [Tag = GODADDY] URL: http://uk.godaddy.com Relevant dates: Registered on: 13-Mar-2019 Expiry date: 13-Mar-2020 Last updated: 13-Mar-2019 Registration status: Registered until expiry date. Name servers: ns67.domaincontrol.com ns68.domaincontrol.com Both registered on 13th May. My bet is the .uk one is a Dev site and the .co.uk will be the Prod. Just why they give full public access to a Dev site is a bit stupid. ldsports.com is showing page unavailable. You would think that with a target market of here, they would secure .co.uk and .com
Virgin Media was £6 million a year I think, so this would easily put us top 8-10 in terms of sponsorship deals.
