ICANN is pleased to announce the public comment period for the proposed Implementation Plan for Synchronized IDN ccTLDs [PDF, 440K]. Synchronized IDN ccTLDs are described by situations in the Fast Track Process where:

IDN ccTLDs are requested in more than one official language or script in a country/territory,
the requests for corresponding multiple [...]

The sex.com domain name auction scheduled for Thursday 18 March has been postponed due to an Involuntary Chapter 11 petition, or involuntary bankruptcy, against the current holder of the domain.
The petition, published on the Domain Name Wire website, notes three claimants for a total of $10,092,118.68. The claimants are Washington Technology Associates who is claiming [...]

Britain’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has welcomed a recent report that found more than three-quarters (77%) of all Whois records for five of the generic Top Level Domains (.COM, .ORG, .NET, .INFO and .BIZ) are filled with at least partially inaccurate information.
The survey by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) for ICANN also found [...]

Metal.com is the biggest seller in Domain Name Journal’s list of top reported domain name sales in the week to 28 February, selling for $165,000.
Second was stockprices.com ($60,000) and both were sold by Sedo as were five of the top ten and twleve of the top 20.
Top country code sale as furniture.co.za ($33,000).
To read the [...]

A controversial domain name registrant is annoying some of Australia’s largest companies by registering their domain names in obscure country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) and then attempting to sell the domain names to them at vastly inflated prices.
Dominic Holland has been found attempting to sell the domain names qant.as and westp.ac, Australia’s national airline [...]

UDRP Arbitrator Sandra Franklin offered her insights on UDRP arbitrations concerning trademarks, domain names, and cybersquatting issues in a Cybersquatting Law Radio interview.
The interview, available to read or listen to, can be found on the Traverse Legal blog here.

.ORG domain names will have additional security enabled as of 30 June this year, the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the registry for .ORG, has announced. The registry says it intends to enable full DNSSEC deployment in the .ORG registry by accepting second level signed .ORG zones beginning in June of 2010. This positions .ORG as [...]

[news release] The “DNSSEC Testbed for Germany” enters the decisive phase: As from 2 March 2010 DENIC gives also second level domains under .de the opportunity to participate in the DNSSEC testbed and to record the related key material. In this process, DENIC initially registers the Key Signing Keys used as [...]

In the first week of March, DNSSEC technology was introduced for more than 70,000 .CZ domains. With over 87,000 signed domains, the CZ.NIC Association, the .CZ registry, has the most domain names with DNSSEC protecting their domain names.
The CZ.NIC Association introduced DNSSEC into the .CZ domain in October 2008. You can find out more about [...]

ICANN’s commitment to the deployment of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) continues with the launch of the Generic Signing Infrastructure (GSI).
After several months of testing the operational aspects of the GSI, ICANN engineers executed the maintenance procedure to publish a signed ICANN.ORG domain on March 11, 2010 at 0400 UTC.
The [...]