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title: Domain Categories improvements
description: We have added 7 new Domain Categories and renamed 3 Domain Categories, to better reflect online content and enable DNS filtering
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## Domain Categories improvements

May 14, 2025 

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**New categories added**

| Parent ID | Parent Name           | Category ID | Category Name                 |
| --------- | --------------------- | ----------- | ----------------------------- |
| 1         | Ads                   | 66          | Advertisements                |
| 3         | Business & Economy    | 185         | Personal Finance              |
| 3         | Business & Economy    | 186         | Brokerage & Investing         |
| 21        | Security Threats      | 187         | Compromised Domain            |
| 21        | Security Threats      | 188         | Potentially Unwanted Software |
| 6         | Education             | 189         | Reference                     |
| 9         | Government & Politics | 190         | Charity and Non-profit        |

**Changes to existing categories**

| Original Name | New Name                |
| ------------- | ----------------------- |
| Religion      | Religion & Spirituality |
| Government    | Government/Legal        |
| Redirect      | URL Alias/Redirect      |

Refer to [Gateway domain categories](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/traffic-policies/domain-categories/) to learn more.