Category Definitions
Categories with high priority
| Category | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adult Content | These websites include content intended for legimate reproductive science and sexual development educational material. |
| Alcohol & Tobacco | Websites that promote or sell alcoholic beverages or tobacco products. |
| Gambling | Websites that provide gambling odds and information or allow online betting. |
| Illegal Drugs | Websites that provide information on the manifacturing or selling or illegal drugs or prescription drugs obtained illegally. |
| Illegal Software | Websites that provide information about downloads of pirated software. |
| Intimate Apparel & Swimwear | Websites containing revealing images such as swimsuits and modelling, but no nudity. |
| Nudity | Websites containing bare images of human body which are not suggestive or explicit. |
| Personals & Dating | Websites that enable users to meet and interact with each other for the purposes of dating or making friends. |
| Pornography | Any website that contains sexually suggestive, explicit or erotic content. |
| Tasteless & Offensive |
Websites that provide content like the following: - Portraying horror or perverse content - Encouraging, instructing or portraying extreme violence or people or property - Encouraging bigotry or discrimination - Schocking, gory, perverse or horrific content in nature |
| Weapons | Websites that contain information about making, buying or obtaining any sort of weapons. |
| Sex Education | Educational websites that provide information or discuss sex and sexuality, without utilizing pornographic materials |
| Terrorism | Websites that includes terrorism, bombs, and anarchy, websites depicting murder and suicide as well as explaining ways to commit them. |
| Hacking | Websites that depict illicit activities surrounding the unauthorized modification or access to programs, computers, equipment and websites. |
Categories with mid priority
| Category | Definition |
|---|---|
| Advertisements & Popups | Websites that host or serve advertisements or provide software that serves advertisements. |
| Advocacy & NGO | Websites for groups that promote or defend specific causes. |
| Arts & Society & Culture | Websites that display art galleries, information about artists and ethnic and cultural heritage. |
| Auctions & Classifieds | Websites that alow bidding and selling of items and services. Does not include non-selling related advertising. |
| Blogs & Wikis | Websites allowing users to post content, edit and re-post frequently. |
| Chat | Websites that provide Web-based messaging and chat rooms, including IRC and social networking chat functions. |
| Comics & Humor & Jokes | Websites containing comical or funny content. |
| Downloads | Websites that distribute copies of free and shared software. |
| Entertainment | Websites providing information on theater arts, movies, concerts, tv, radio and other amusements, or about celebrities of those venues. |
| Fashion & Beauty | Websites that provide information or products related to fashion and beauty. |
| Food & Dining | Websites with information, reviews, and online ordering for restaurants, bars, and catering. |
| Forums & Newsgroups | Websites containing user-generated Web logs, discussion forums or wikis. |
| Game Playing & Game Media | Websites that provide video game information or enable the online playing of games. |
| Hobbies & Recreation | Websites dedicated to recreational activities and hobbies, or organizations and businesses dedicated to recreation, such as amusement parks. |
| Hosted Personal Pages | Websites which allow users to design and post personal websites. |
| Instant Messaging | Websites that provide instant messaging software such as instant messaging clients or chat clients that are not Web-based. |
| Kids Sites | Websites that are family-oriented and geared toward children. |
| Marketing & Merchandising | Websites that provide information about products and services not available on the Web. |
| Media Sharing | Websites that allow posting and sharing of music and video content in any format. |
| Mobile Communications | Websites that provide support information for mobile communication devices. |
| Moderated Forums | Websites monitored by an authority who can prevent posting of inappropriate material. |
| Motor Vehicles | Websites containing information and marketing for cars, auto parts and services. |
| News | Websites that contain general news information on a local, national and international level. |
| Online Services | Websites that provide access to Web-based services. |
| Online Storage | Websites that allow the uploading of files and backups for remote data storage. |
| Parked Sites | For sale or expired websites that display links or advertisements. |
| Peer-to-Peer | Websites that distribute file sharing software or allow the exchange of files between users. |
| Political Issues | Websites that contain opinion and political information, groups and discussions. |
| Professional Networking | The subset of social networking websites which includes content intended exclusively for businesses or professionals. |
| Proxies | Websites that enable users to hide their browsing destinations, IP address, or username to avoid detection and bypass Web filters. |
| Public Information | Websites allowing search and access of the public records of people or organizations. |
| Real Estate | Websites that provide residential and commercial property sales and rental information, listings and services. |
| Religion | Websites that include content related to spirituality, religion, and philosophy. |
| Shopping | Websites that sell goods and services, but not marketing or ordering websites for single products. |
| Social Networking | Websites that enable friends to interact and share information, but not for the purposes of dating. |
| Sports | Websites with information and news about amateur and professional sports. |
| Stock Trading | Websites that allow monitoring, purchase, or sale of stocks. |
| Streaming Media | Websites that provide streaming radio or tv, streaming audio and video, or software and tools for streaming media. |
| Travel | Websites that provide information about travel destinations or allow online booking of travel plans. |
| Anime, Manga, Webcomic | Websites that includes anime & manga cartoons |
| Hunting | Web pages that Hunting and Fishing Professional or sport hunting, gun clubs and other hunting related sites. |
| Movies | Websites that includes movies, film information |
| Music | Websites that includes music, music information and news |
| Online Meetings | Sites that enable hosting of meetings, screen sharing and collaboration of documents across the Internet. |
| Podcasts | Websites that includes podcats about games, cars, news, magazines, sports etc. |
| Paranormal | Websites that includes UFOs, ghosts, cryptid, telekenesis, urban legends and myths. |
| Parenting and Family | Websites that includes parenting and family relations |
| Translators | Translation of web pages between languages. |
Categories with low priority
| Category | Definition |
|---|---|
| Business | Websites that provide business-related overview, planning and strategy information. |
| Computing & Technology | Websites that provide technical support information, but not of a security nature. |
| Content Server | Includes domains that host web sites of other types and are often sources of security threats. |
| Education & Reference | Websites that provide academic information about schools or education related topics. |
| Finance & Investment | Websites that provide financial information or access to online banking. |
| Government & Legal | Websites maintained by domestic and foreign government and military agencies. |
| Health & Medicine | Websites that provide health and wellness material or information about health products and service providers. |
| Information Security | Websites that provide information about protecting personal or business data. |
| Job Search & Career Development | Websites that enable users to search for job openings and career opportunities, either with specific companies or job boards. |
| Search Engines & Portals | Websites that aggregate disparate information or allow users to search across large amounts of data. |
| Software - Hardware | Websites that provide access to software or hardware technology. |
| Technical Information | Websites that provide information on technical details of technologies. |
| Visual Search | Websites that provide image searching and matching technology. |
| Web Applications | Websites that provide access to groupware or interactive conference rooms. |
| Astrology | Websites that provide Astrology, horoscope, fortune telling, numerology, psychic advice, tarot. |
| CDN | Websites that provide CDN service |
| Community and Society | Websites that includes This category contains sites that deal with everyday life issues and preferences such as passive hobbies (gardening, stamp collecting, pets), journals, blogs, etc. |
| Cryptocurrency | Websites that include a digital currency in which encryption techniques are used to regulate the generation of units of currency and verify the transfer of funds, operating independently of a central bank. |
| Diet | Web pages that food in general, food and beverage, cooking and recipes, food and nutrition, health, and dieting, cooking, including recipe and culinary websites |
| Internet Telephony | Websites that enable telephone communications over the Internet. |
| Pets and Animals | Websites that enable telephone communications over the Internet.Websites that includes information about animals & pets |
| Science and Technology | Science and technology, such as aerospace, electronics, engineering, mathematics, and other similar subjects, space exploration, meteorology, geography, environment, energy (fossil, nuclear, renewable), communications (telephones, telecommunications). |
| URL Shortener | Websites that provide URL or Links shortener service |
| Personal VPN | Websites that includes Virtual private network (VPN) sites or tools that are typically for personal use,and, may or may not be approved for corporate usage |