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 ...

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I authored a guest post that was published on EntertainmentAgentBlog.com.

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