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Abortion
- Abortion - Pro-Choice
Sites that provide information about or are sponsored by organizations that support legal abortion or that offer support or encouragement to those seeking the procedure. - Abortion - Pro-Life
Sites that provide information about or are sponsored by organizations that oppose legal abortion or that seek increased restriction of abortion.
Sites that provide information about or promote gambling or support online gambling, involving a risk of losing money.
Weapons
Sites that provide information about, promote, or support the sale of weapons and related items.
Bandwidth
- Bandwidth - Personal Network Storage and Backup
Sites that store personal files on web servers for backup or exchange. - Bandwidth - Entertainment Video
Sites that host videos with entertainment-oriented content. - Bandwidth - Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
Sites that provide client software to enable peer-to-peer file sharing and transfer. - Bandwidth - Internet Radio and TV
Sites that provide online radio or television programming. - Bandwidth - Surveillance
Sites that enable real-time monitoring of various operations via network cameras, webcams and other video recording devices. - Bandwidth - Streaming Media
Sites that enable streaming of media content. - Bandwidth - Internet Telephony
Sites that enable users to make phone calls via the Internet or to obtain information or software for that purpose. - Bandwidth - Educational Video
Sites that host videos with academic or instructional content. - Bandwidth - Viral Video
Sites that host videos with high or rapidly rising popularity.
Sites that offer information about or support the seeking of employment or employees.
Shopping
Sites that support the online purchase of consumer goods and services except: sexual materials, lingerie, swimwear, investments, medications, educational materials, computer software or hardware, alcohol, tobacco, travel, vehicles and parts, weapons.
- Shopping - Real Estate
Sites that provide information about renting, buying, selling or financing residential real estate. - Shopping - Internet Auctions
Sites that support the offering and purchasing of goods between individuals.
- Adult Material - Nudity
Sites that offer depictions of nude or seminude human forms, singly or in groups, not overtly sexual in intent or effect. - Adult Material - Sex Education
Sites that offer information about sex and sexuality, with no pornographic intent. - Adult Material - Lingerie and Swimsuit
Sites that offer images of models in suggestive but not lewd costume, with semi nudity permitted. Includes classic 'cheesecake, calendar and pinup art and photography. Includes sites offering lingerie or swimwear for sale - Adult Material - Adult Content
Sites that display full or partial nudity in a sexual context, but not sexual activity; erotica; sexual paraphernalia; sex-oriented businesses including clubs, nightclubs, escort services; and sites supporting the online purchase of such goods and services. - Adult Material - Sex
Sites that depict or graphically describe sexual acts or activity, including exhibitionism; sites offering direct links to such sites. This category includes data from specialist agencies such as the Internet Watch Foundation (https://www.iwf.org.uk/member/forcepoint).
- Sports - Sport Hunting and Gun Clubs
Sites that provide information about or directories of gun clubs and similar groups, including war-game and paintball facilities.
Sites that are expired, offered for sale, or known to display targeted links and advertisements.
Drugs
- Drugs - Nutrition
Sites that provide information about nutrition. - Drugs - Abused Drugs
Sites that promote or provide information about the use of prohibited drugs, except marijuana, or the abuse or unsanctioned use of controlled or regulated drugs; also, paraphernalia associated with such use or abuse. - Drugs - Marijuana
Sites that provide information about or promote the cultivation, preparation or use of marijuana. - Drugs - Prescribed Medications
Sites that provide information about approved drugs and their medical use.
- Education - Cultural Institutions
Sites sponsored by museums, galleries, theatres (but not movie theatres), libraries and similar institutions; also, sites whose purpose is the display of artworks. - Education - Educational Institutions
Sites sponsored by schools and other educational facilities, by non-academic research institutions, or that relate to educational events and activities. - Education - Reference Materials
Sites that offer reference-shelf content such as atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, formularies, white and yellow pages, and public statistical data. - Education - Educational Materials
Sites that provide information about or that sell or provide curriculum materials or direct instruction; also, learned journals and similar publications.
Sites devoted to a current event that requires separate categorization.
Militancy and Extremist
Sites that offer information about or promote or are sponsored by groups advocating anti-government beliefs or action. This category includes data from official government sources such as the UK Counter Terrorism Internet Referral Unit (CTIRU).
Category used to manage the Facebook domain.l
Government
Sites sponsored by branches, bureaus or agencies of any level of government, except for the armed forces.
- Government - Military
Sites sponsored by branches or agencies of the armed services. - Government - Political Organizations
Sites sponsored by or providing information about political parties and interest groups focused on elections or legislation.
Sites that promote change or reform in public policy, public opinion, social practice, economic activities and relationships.
Illegal or Questionable
Sites that provide instruction in or promote nonviolent crime or unethical or dishonest behavior or the avoidance of prosecution.
Internet Communication
- Internet Communication - Web Chat
Sites that host web chat services or that support or provide information about chat via HTTP or IRC. - Internet Communication - Organizational Email
Log in sites for corporate or institutional email systems. - Internet Communication - Text and Media Messaging
Sites that enable the sending of messages and other content via SMS, EMS, MMS or similar protocols. - Internet Communication - General Email
Sites that provide email services open to general use.
Sites that enable a user to play or download a game.
Category used to manage the LinkedIn domain
Tasteless
Sites with content that is gratuitously offensive or shocking, but not violent or frightening. Includes sites devoted in part or whole to scatology and similar topics or to improper language, humor or behavior.
Business and Economy
Sites sponsored by or devoted to business firms, business associations, industry groups or general business.
- Business and Economy - Hosted Business Applications
Sites that provide access to business-oriented web applications and allow storage of sensitive data, excluding those for web collaboration. - Business and Economy - Financial Data and Services
Sites that offer investment advice and news and quotations on stocks, bonds and other investment vehicles, but not online trading. Includes banks, credit unions, credit cards and insurance.
Sites that offer current news and opinion, including those sponsored by newspapers, general-circulation magazines or other media.
- News and Media - Alternative Journals
Online equivalents to supermarket tabloids and other fringe publications.
Sites that provide information about or promote motion pictures, non-news radio and television, books, humor and magazines.
- Entertainment - Media File Download
Sites that provide information about or promote motion pictures, non-news radio and television, books, humor and magazines.
Sites that condone intolerance towards any individual or group.
Collaboration Office
Office Category used to manage the Office domain
Social Organizations
- Social Organizations - Social and Affiliation Organizations
Sites sponsored by or that support or offer information about organizations devoted chiefly to socializing or common interests other than philanthropy or professional advancement. - Social Organizations - Service and Philanthropic Organizations
Sites sponsored by or that support or offer information about organizations devoted to doing good as their primary activity. - Social Organizations - Professional and Worker Organizations
Sites sponsored by or that support or offer information about organizations devoted to professional advancement or workers' interests.
- Miscellaneous - Dynamic Content
URLs that are generated dynamically by a web server. - Miscellaneous - Private IP Addresses
IP addresses defined in RFC 1918, 'Address Allocation for Private Intranets'. - Miscellaneous - Network Errors
URLs with hosts that do not resolve to IP addresses. - Miscellaneous - Web Infrastructure
Sites that are associated with website architecture. - Miscellaneous - Content Delivery Networks
Commercial hosts that deliver content to subscribing websites. - Miscellaneous - File Download Servers
Web servers whose primary function is to deliver files for download. - Miscellaneous - Web Images
Sites that deliver image content.
- Productivity - Advertisements
Sites that provide advertising graphics or other ad content files - Productivity - Online Brokerage and Trading
Sites that support active trading of securities and investment management. - Productivity - Message Boards and Forums
Sites that host message boards, bulletin boards and other unaffiliated discussion forums. - Productivity - Instant Messaging
Sites that enable instant messaging. - Productivity - Pay-to-Surf
Sites that reward users for online activity such as viewing websites, advertisements or email. - Productivity - Application and Software Download
Sites that enable download of software, applications.
- Extended Protection - Elevated Exposure
Sites that camouflage their true nature or that include elements suggesting latent malicious intent. - Extended Protection - Suspicious Content
Sites found to contain suspicious content. - Extended Protection - Dynamic DNS
Sites that mask their identity using Dynamic DNS services, often associated with advanced persistent threats (APTs). - Extended Protection - Emerging Exploits
Sites found to be hosting known and potential exploit code. - Extended Protection - Newly Registered Websites
Sites whose domain name was registered recently.
The parent category that contains Social Web categories:
Religion
- Religion - Non Traditional Religions
Sites that provide information about non-traditional religious beliefs and practices. - Religion - Traditional Religions
Sites that provide information about or promote Bahai, Buddhism, Christian Science, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Mormonism, Shinto and Sikhism, as well as atheism.
Sites that provide information or advice on personal health or medical services, procedures, or devices, but not drugs. Includes self-help groups.
Society and Lifestyles
Sites that provide information about matters of daily life, excluding entertainment, health, hobbies, jobs, sex and sports.
- Society and Lifestyles - Alcohol and Tobacco
Sites that provide information about, promote or support the sale of alcoholic beverages or tobacco products or associated paraphernalia. - Society and Lifestyles - Personals and Dating
Sites that assist users in establishing interpersonal relationships, excluding those intended to arrange for sexual encounters. - Society and Lifestyles - Gay or Lesbian or Bisexual Interest
Sites that provide information about or cater to gay, lesbian or bisexual lifestyles, but excluding those that are sexually or issue oriented. - Society and Lifestyles - Hobbies
Sites that provide information about or promote private and largely sedentary pastimes, but not electronic, video or online games. - Society and Lifestyles - Social Networking
Sites of web communities that provide users with means for expression and interaction. - Society and Lifestyles - Restaurants and Dining
Sites that list, review, advertise or promote food, dining or catering services. - Society and Lifestyles - Blogs and Personal Sites
Sites that host blogs and personal sites.
Sites sponsored by or providing information about computers, software, the Internet and related business firms, including sites supporting the sale of hardware, software, peripherals and services.
- Information Technology - Web Hosting
Sites of organizations that provide hosting services, or top-level domain pages of web communities. - Information Technology - Web Analytics
Sites that are associated with web traffic analysis. - Information Technology - Proxy Avoidance
Sites that provide information about how to bypass proxy server features or to gain access to URLs in any way that bypasses the proxy server. - Information Technology - Search Engines and Portals
Sites that support searching the web, news groups or indices or directories thereof. - Information Technology - Web Collaboration
Sites that provide virtual workspace for purposes of collaboration and conferencing, which may include sites that enable authorized access to a computer or network from a remote location. - Information Technology - Hacking
Sites that provide information about or promote illegal or questionable access to or use of computer or communication equipment, software or databases. - Information Technology - Web and Email Marketing
Sites that are associated with online marketing. - Information Technology - Unauthorized Mobile Marketplaces
Protects against websites that may distribute applications unauthorized by the mobile OS manufacturer, the handheld device manufacturer or the network provider. (Traffic visiting websites in this category may indicate jail-broken or rooted phones.) - Information Technology - Computer Security
Sites that provide information about or free downloadable tools for computer security. - Information Technology - Web and Email Spam
Sites whose links are sent in unsolicited commercial email, either as part of campaigns to promote products or services or to entice readers to click through to surveys or similar sites. Also includes sites that display comment spam. - Information Technology - Website Translation
Sites that enable translation of website text.
Sites that provide information about or promote travel-related services and destinations.
Category used to manage the Twitter domain.
Vehicles
Sites that provide information about or promote vehicles, including those that support online purchase of vehicles or parts.
Violence
Sites that feature or promote violence or bodily harm, including self-inflicted harm; or that gratuitously display images of death, gore or injury; or that feature images or descriptions that are grotesque or frightening and of no redeeming value.
YouTube
Category used to manage the YouTube domain.
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