Category Descriptions
Category | Description |
|---|---|
Alcohol | Web pages that promote, advocate, or sell alcohol including beer, wine and hard liquor. |
Anonymizer | Web pages that promote proxies and anonymizers for surfing websites with the intent of circumventing filters. |
Art | Theater, museums, exhibits, photography, and digital graphic resources. |
Business/Services | General business. |
Cars/Transportation | Vehicles, including selling, promoting or discussion. |
Chat/IM | Communication through chat or IM services as well as sites with information about IM communication or chatrooms. |
Community Sites | Newsgroup sites and posting, including forums and bulletin boards. |
Compromised | Web pages that have been compromised by someone other than the site owner, which appears to be legitimate, but houses malicious code. |
Computers and Technology | Sites with information about computers, software, hardware, peripherals and computer services. |
Criminal Skills/Hacking | Activities that violate human rights including murder, sabotage, and bomb-building. Information about illegal manipulation of electronic devices, encryption, misuse, and fraud. Warez and other illegal software distribution. |
Dating | Web pages that promote relationships such as dating and marriage. |
Download Sites | Shareware, Freeware and other software. P2P sites and software. |
Education | Educational institutions and schools. Educational and reference materials including dictionaries and encyclopedias. |
Entertainment and Videos | Web sites for videos, TV and motion pictures including celebrity sites and entertainment news. |
Finance | Bank and insurance companies and other financial institutions. Active trading of certificates and stocks. |
Gambling | Web pages that promote gambling, lotteries, casinos and betting agencies involving chance. |
Games | Web pages consisting of computer games, game producers and online gaming. |
Government | Government organizations, departments, or agencies. Includes police, fire, and hospitals. |
Hate Speech | Web pages that promote extreme right/left-wing groups, sexism, racism, religious hate and other discrimination. |
Health | Personal health and medical services including sites with information on equipment ans procedures. Does not include drugs. |
Home/Leisure | Sites with information about home improvement and decorating, family, gardening, and hobbies. |
Humor | Web pages that include comics, jokes and other humorous content. |
Illegal Drugs | Web pages that promote the use of information of common illegal drugs and the misuse of prescription drugs and compounds. |
Job Search | Web pages devoted to job searches or agencies, career planning and human resources. |
Mature | Sites not appropriate for children. Includes sites with content about alternative lifestyles and profanity. |
Military | Web pages sponsored by the armed forces and government-controlled agencies. |
Miscellaneous | Content Servers used to supply supplementary website content or web pages that do not fall into any other category. |
Music | Web pages that include internet radio and streaming media, musicians, bands, MP3 and media downloads. |
News | Web pages with general news information such as newspapers and magazines. |
Non-profits | Clubs, communities, unions, and non-profit organizations. |
Nudity | Web pages that display full or partial nudity with no sexual references or intent. |
Online Ads | Web pages strictly devoted to advertising graphics, banners, or pop-up ad content. |
Personal Webpages | Websites about or hosted by personal individuals. Communication through blogs and guestbook servers. Information on personal hobbies and activities. |
Pharmacy | Web pages that include prescribed medications and information about approved drugs and their medical use. |
Phishing/Fraud | Manipulated web pages and emails used for fraudulent purposes, also known as phishing. |
Politics and Law | Sites that promote political parties and interest groups. Information on elections and legislation. Sites that offer legal information and advice. |
Pornography/Sex | Explicit sexual content unsuitable for persons under the age of 18. |
Portal Sites | General web pages with customized personal portals, including white/yellow pages. |
Real Estate | Web pages possessing information about renting, purchasing, selling or financing real estate including homes, apartments, and office space. |
Religion | Religious sites and information. Includes sects, cults, occultism and religious fundamentalism. |
Restaurants | Food, dining and catering services including sites that provide reviews, advertisements or other promotions. |
Search Engines | Web pages supporting the searching of the web, newsgroups, pictures, directories, and other online content. |
Shopping | Online shops, catalogs and online ordering. Auction sites and advertising. Classified ads. Excludes shopping for products and services exclusively covered by another category such as health. |
Social Networking | Social networking web pages and online communities built around communities of people where users "connect" to other users. |
Spam | Products and web pages promoted through spam techniques. |
Sports and Recreation | Sports teams, fan clubs and news. Recreation activities including zoos, public recreation centers, pools, and amusement parks. |
Spyware and Malicious Sites | Sites or software that installs on a user's computer with the intent to collect information or make system changes without the user's consent. |
Tobacco | Web pages promoting the use of tobacco-related products (cigarettes, cigars, pipes). |
Translator | Web pages that translate languages from one to another. |
Travel | Web pages that provide travel and tourism information, online booking or travel services such as airlines, car rentals, and hotels. |
Violence | Web pages that promote questionable activities such as violence and militancy. |
Weapons | Web pages that include guns and weapons when not used in a violent manner. |
Web-based Email | Web pages that enable users to send and/or receive email through a web-accessible email account. |