*Registration Policies for GAC Category 1 Highly Regulated Applications* ** The ICANN GAC Communique at the ICANN46 meeting in Beijing in April 2013 advised that new gTLDs with names that relate to highly regulated sectors should implement a set of safeguards to improve consumer protection. The string .health is not included for protection. Some of the protections for these strings, and how they are deployed, should be of interest to health, legal and financial not-for-profit organizations. The strings to be protected included: .pharmacy, .surgery, .dentist, .dds, .hospital, .medical, .doctor .bank, .banque, .creditunion, .creditcard, .insurance, .ira, .lifeinsurance, .mutualfunds, .mutuelle, .vermogensberater, .vesicherung, .autoinsurance, .carinsurance .bank, .banque, .creditunion, .creditcard, .insurance, .ira, .lifeinsurance, .mutualfunds, .mutuelle, .vermogensberater, .vesicherung, .autoinsurance, .carinsurance, .charity, .university .abogado, .attorney, .cpa, .dentist, .dds, .lawyer, .doctor, .corp, .gmbh, .inc, .llc, .llp, .ltda, .ltd, .sarl, .srl, .sal The background on this task can be found at: https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/52890480/ALAC-Cat1-Review%5... The gTLD protection status of individual strings can be found at: https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/53783879/GAC%20Cat1%20Summa... https://gacweb.icann.org/download/attachments/27132037/Beijing%20Communique%... 2013_Final.pdf <https://gacweb.icann.org/download/attachments/27132037/Beijing%20Communique%...> Sam Lanfranco, Chair, NPOC Policy Committee