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• On 28 January 2016, GMO Registry won rights to own the .shop gTLD for $41.5 million in an ICANN auction, outbidding all other applicants. At the time of the auction, this was the most expensive reported auction in the history of the New gTLD Program.
• Global IPv6 reached 10% deployment, just in time for its 20th anniversary.
• In January, 2016, the World Economic Forum, announced that current ICANN CEO, Fadi Chehadé will become the senior advisor to to the Executive Chairman, Klaus Schwab starting April 1, 2016. Read the announcement here.

New gTLDs Reaching General Availability

• Jan 18-.feedback
• Jan 19-.corsica
• Jan 20-.wine, .vin, .auto