Update on the Chris Bosh Domain Case

You may recall last year's lawsuit in which NBA player Chris Bosh was awarded nearly 800 "athlete" domain names from a cybersquatter.

The award was about 4 months ago. So what happened to those domain names?

Well, I ran some internet tools against the published list of domains and can came up with these interesting statistics:

• There were originally 754 domain names awarded. I extracted the names out of this PDF document.
   
• Chris Bosh's company, Max Deal Technologies, and his lawfirm, Winston & Strawn LLP, still appear to have 596 domains registered.
   
• Only about 26 domains were transferred to someone else. These are domains like SteveNash.com and ScarlettJohanssonReynolds.com. This means that, as far as I can tell, only about 3.4% of the names have been returned the rightful owner.
   
• The remaining 162 were just "dropped". They're expired and unregistered. The domains are either of little value or they're ready (unfortunately) for another cybersquatter to jump on them.

A couple of notes: I ran this analysis about 2 weeks ago, and things may have changes slightly. Also I can't guarantee there were no errors in my analysis, but the data is all publicly available, so feel free to check my results.