About URL categories
Web Security uses the following categories for URL Filtering.
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Abortion | Sites that provide information or arguments in favor of or against abortion, including the following:
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Adult/Sexually Explicit | Sites that contain sexually explicit material for the purpose of arousing a sexual or prurient interest. This category includes the following:
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Advertisement and Popups | Sites that provide Internet advertising services, including the following:
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Alcohol | Alcohol-related sites, including the following:
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Anonymizer | Sites that offer anonymous access to web sites, often used to bypass corporate and school proxy controls as well as parental control filtering solutions. |
Art Nudes | Non-pornographic sites with tasteful and artistic display of the naked body. These sites are not sexually oriented. |
Arts | Sites that include the following:
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Automated Web Application | Sites that allow a computer to automatically open an HTTP connection for various reasons, including checking for operating system updates or application updates. |
Blogs | "Blog" sites that provide commentary on particular subjects including news, politics, and online diaries that contain the following content types:
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Business | Sites sponsored by or devoted to individual businesses not covered by any other categories. This category includes the following industries:
This category also includes the following:
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Caches and Archives | This category filters cached content by extracting the user's original requested URL and comparing it with the URL categorization policies. This category covers the following:
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Chat | Sites that enable users to chat to other users online, using the following:
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Computing and Internet | Sites that provide information about computers, the Internet, and telecommunications, including the following:
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Content Delivery Networks | Websites that are used to deliver software updates and other high-bandwidth applications to corporate customers. This category also includes corporate image servers. |
Cult | Sites that promote prominent organized modern religious groups that are identified as cults by three or more authoritative sources. This category includes the following:
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Dynamic | Sites that have dynamically changing content with the possibility of generating, displaying, or offering links to inappropriate material, including the following:
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Education | Education-related sites including the following:
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Energy | Sites that represent companies involved with the production and distribution of energy, including the following:
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Enterprise Webmail | Sites that provide online email services for select communities of users, including the following:
This category does not include webmail from larger providers (for example, Google, Yahoo, and Hotmail) |
Entertainment | Sites related to the entertainment industry including the following:
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Fashion and Beauty | Sites that emphasize, promote, or provide information on how to achieve physical attractiveness, allure, charm, beauty or style with respect to personal appearance. This category includes the following:
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File Storage and Backup | Sites that allow users to upload files for personal online storage on Internet servers for backup or exchange. This category includes sites for documents or other information, but not photo sharing sites. |
Finance and Investment | Finance-related sites including the following:
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Food and Dining | Sites that provide information about the following:
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Forums and Messageboards | Sites that enable users to participate in the discussion of numerous topics, often with online communities. This category includes the following:
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Freeware and Software Download | Sites that offer the download of software online, including the following:
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Gambling | Sites that allow users to place bets or participate in a betting pool including the following:
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Games | Sites related to computer or video games, game downloads and online game sites, including the following:
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Gore | Sites that display graphic violence and the infliction of pain or injuries, including the following:
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Government | Sites that are sponsored by government branches or agencies, including the following:
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Hacking | Sites that promote or provide the means to practice illegal or unauthorized acts of computer crime using technology or computer-programming skills. This category includes the following:
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Health and Medicine | Sites that provide information or advice on the following:
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Hobbies and Recreation | Sites that provide information on private pastimes, including the following:
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Hosting Sites | Sites that provide individuals or organizations with online systems for storing information, images, video, or any content accessible from the web. This category includes the following:
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Illegal Activity | Sites with illicit content or instructions for threatening or violating the security of property or privacy of people. This category includes the following:
* All child-oriented erotic sites are registered with global advocacy groups, including the following:
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Illegal Drugs | Sites that promote, offer, sell, supply, encourage or advocate the use, cultivation, manufacture, or distribution of illegal drugs, pharmaceuticals, intoxicating plants or chemicals and their related paraphernalia. |
Image Search | Websites that provide resources for photo and image searches, including the following:
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Intimate Apparel and Swimwear | Sites that display or offer the sale of the following:
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Intolerance and Hate | Sites that advocate hostility or aggression toward individuals or groups on the basis of race, religion, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, or other involuntary characteristics, including the following:
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Job Search | Sites that provide assistance or tools to help to find employment, including the following:
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Kids Sites | Sites that provide a safe Internet experience for children under 12 years of age. Category includes the following:
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Law Site | Sites that offer legal content and services, including the following:
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Mature | Sites that contain sexually explicit information that is not of a medical or scientific nature. This category includes the following:
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Military | Sites that are sponsored by military branches or agencies as well as official and personal sites related to military history, ideology, or specific branches of the military. |
Mobile Phone Downloads | Sites that offer a range of add-ons for handheld devices, including the following:
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Motor Vehicles | Sites that relate to motor vehicles, dealers, sales, and clubs, including the following:
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Music | Sites related to the music industry, including the following:
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Neutral | Sites that have not yet been categorized, or may never be categorized, into one of the standard categories, but that have been examined and found to not contain offensive content. |
News | Sites that primarily report, inform, or comment on current events or issues of the day, including the following:
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Nudity | Sites that offer depictions of nude or semi-nude human forms, and are not sexually oriented. This category includes the following:
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Occult | Sites that promote or offer methods, means of instruction, or other resources to affect or influence real events through the use of spells, curses, magic powers or supernatural beings, including the following:
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Peer-To-Peer | Sites that make files available for other users to download over the Internet or smaller private networks. This category includes the following:
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Personals and Dating | Sites that promote or provide opportunity for establishing or continuing romantic or sexual relationships, including the following:
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Pets | Sites and forums related to the care, maintenance, purchase, rescue, or breeding of any animal for companionship and enjoyment, including the following:
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Philanthropic and Professional Organizations | Sites that are owned by non-profit organizations, including organizations in the following areas:
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Phishing and Fraud | Sites that impersonate legitimate business sites, for the purpose of eliciting financial or other private information for users, including the following:
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Placeholder | Sites that are typically owned by domain name registrars, domain brokers, or Internet advertising publishers, including the following:
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Plagiarism | Sites that are made available for students to plagiarize content from, including the following:
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Politics | Sites that relate to the following:
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Portal | Sites that offer a broad array of resources and services, such as email, forums, search engines, and online shopping malls. Portals typically publish their own content or collate multiple sources of information for many areas such as the following:
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Real Estate | Sites that are commercial in nature and involved in the real estate business, including the following:
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Reference | Sites that contain personal, professional, or educational references, including the following:
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Religion | Sites that are about religion as any set of beliefs and practices that have the function of addressing the fundamental questions of human identity, ethics, death, and the existence of the Divine. |
Science | Sites that provide research materials in the natural and life sciences. |
Search | Sites that support the following:
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Self-Harm | Sites that describe or discuss ways in which to self harm including the following:
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Sex Education | Sites that provide educational information on the following:
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Shopping | Sites that provide the means to purchase products or services online, including the following:
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Social Networking | Sites that enable a group of people to communicate and interact on the Internet. This category includes the following:
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Spam URLs | Website URLs found in spam email, including the following:
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Sports | Sites that promote or provide information about spectator sports. including the following:
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Spyware | Sites that provide or promote information gathering or tracking that is unknown to, or without the explicit consent of, the end user or organization, including the following:
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Streaming Media | Sites that host streaming media including the following:
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Suicide | Sites that describe or promote suicide, including the following:
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Tobacco | Tobacco-related sites, including the following:
This category includes the following:
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Travel | Sites that promote or provide opportunity for travel planning, including the following:
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Unclassified | Sites that are not categorized in the Web Security database, possibly for the following reasons:
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Violence | Sites that advocate or provide instructions for causing physical harm to people or property through the use of weapons, explosives, pranks, or other types of violence, including the following:
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Voice Over IP | Sites that enable users to make telephone calls over the Internet or obtain information or software for this purpose, including the following:
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Weapons | Sites that describe or offer for sale weapons, including the following:
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Webmail | Sites that provide free Web-based email services, accessible through any Internet browser (for example, Yahoo, Hotmail, and Google) |
Wedding | Sites related to the traditions, customs, planning, and products involved in a marriage or commitment ceremony as well as in civil unions, including the following:
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