For the past several years the global health community has been expressing concern over the proposed creation of global top level domain names (gTLDs) linked to health and wellness. There have been editorials in the Lancet British medical journal and elsewhere, and significant effort to stop the awarding of the .health and similar gTLD strings. (.com, .net, .edu are examples of gTLD strings. ICANN (icann.org) has pending approval for the creation of .health and it has been delayed in part because of concern on the part of national governments. Within I can there is a committee called the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), made of of representatives of three-quarters of the countries in the world and they have yet to give their advice to ICANN on .health and similar health related strings. I have been asked by those involved in Health Information for All 2015 ( http://www.hifa2015.org/ ) to provide information so that individuals and organizations can express their concerns around the awarding of the gTLD .health to private interests. (If you need further information an online search using .health and dothealth will produce a wealth of information). For those of you, individually or as organizations, who are interested in expressing your concerns to your national government and your governments member of ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee, here is the link to the current list of national GAC contacts, with email addresses etc. I strongly advise national stakeholders to engage their national GAC representatives and associated government ministries with your concerns about .health and other health-related gTLDs being considered by ICANN. A dialogue at that level is very important. Here is the link to the GAC representative information. https://gacweb.icann.org/display/gacweb/GAC+Representatives ( I also have a 7meg .PDF of the list available on request). If you are going to contact your GAC representative I would suggest that (a) you target only those GAC representatives where you or your organization have a presence. A general spam-like email barrage to other GAC members would be counter productive. Second, I would appreciate it if you could cc: email everything you send to your GAC members to me at the following email box: *[log in to unmask]* I will take the emails and using something like openstreetmap draw a picture of which countries engaged in email with their GAC representative, and how many representations were made, both as individuals and as organizations. Your information will be kept confidential. To recount: List at : https://gacweb.icann.org/display/gacweb/GAC+Representatives cceMail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> Sam Lanfranco, Chair ICANN/NPOC Public Policy Committee Access CANCHID archives at: https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/canchid.html plus CANCHID subscription management. CANCHID is a joint service of the Canadian Society for International Health < http:www.csih.org > and the Distributed Knowledge Project (York University). Queries to Sam Lanfranco <[log in to unmask]>