Good news, folks!
Vircurex have changed their minds, obviously:
9 Apr 2013 - IXCoin trading
Some confusion has arisen with us first stopping and then reinstating IXC. This message is to confirm that IXC trading will continue.
In addition to that, doublec's mining pool is going to do IXC merge mining again, see
http://mmpool.bitparking.com/2013-04-09: Generation of ixcoin rewards for pool users is re-enabled now that Vircurex is open again. Pool reserves are still low so ixcoin reward payment is at 50% until the pool catches up to break-even again. The pool is currently 200,000 ixcoin behind that.