The New Zealand IPv6 Taskforce has been registered as a Trust and charitable entity says the latest edition of The Browser, the monthly newsletter from InternetNZ, who manages .NZ as part of their duties. … more

Sex always makes a good story for the media, and so it has again recently with the .XXX Top Level Domain about to be discussed again at ICANN’s Nairobi, Kenya, meeting this week and the SEX.COM domain name up for grabs again next week to the highest bidder. … more

Nominet is planning to release two letter, one character and other reserved .UK domains. In planning for the release, the .UK registry has commenced a three month consultation process that closes on 8 June on how the domain names should be released. … more

The proposed renewal of the .PRO registry agreement is posted for public comment at icann.org/en/tlds/agreements/pro/proposed-renewal-agreement-02mar10-en.pdf [PDF, 57 KB] and appendices at icann.org/en/tlds/agreements/pro/proposed-appendices-02mar10-en.pdf [PDF, 320 KB]. … more

The “DNSSEC Testbed for Germany” has entered a decisive phase: as of 2 March 2010 DENIC has given all second level domains under .DE the opportunity to participate in the DNSSEC testbed and to record their experiences. … more

SIDN has modified the Dispute Resolution Regulations for .NL domain names as of 4 March 2010. As a result of the changes, much of the correspondence that previously went by post will in future go by email. … more

UNINETT, the .NO (Norway) registry is currently holding a consultation process on how individuals can register Norwegian domain names in the future. The consultation process will be open until 17 May. … more

Responding to concerns on cybersquatting, the .ZA Domain Name Authority (Zadna - the South African registry) has announced they will be introducing new regulations in 2010. … more

.MX, the country code Top Level Domain for Mexico, has passed the 400,000th domain name registration reports NIC Mexico. … more

AFNIC was re-appointed as registry for .FR domain names for a further seven years on 2 March, 2010 by the French Minister for Industry, Christian Estrosi. … more

DENIC have allowed the registration of the two-letter domain name BR.DE. The domain was excluded from the release of two-character domains affected in autumn 2009. Upon DENIC’s objection, this temporary injunction was now rescinded. The domain name was subsequently registered at 15:00 on 18 February. … more

[news release] VeriSign, the operator of.com, announced today that President Bill Clinton will deliver the opening keynote address at its Policy Impact Forum in Washington D.C. on March 16. This event is part of a larger industry-wide campaign led by VeriSign recognizing 25 years of Internet innovation. … more

There were 192 million domain names registered around the world at the end of 2009, an increase of eleven million registrations over the previous quarter, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief published by VeriSign. … more

ICANN is today opening a public comment forum on a proposed amendment from Afilias Limited to Appendix 6 & 7 of the .INFO Registry Agreement. … more

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, according to a survey by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) for ICANN. … more