Default categories
From Secure Web Gateway
Category Name | Description |
ads | Advert servers and banned URLs |
advice | the forums, discussion boards and the question-answer type web sites |
Anonymous VPN | Sites providing vpn services to the public. The focus is on vpn sites used to hide the origin of the traffic, f.e. tor nodes |
antispyware | Sites that remove spyware |
astrology | All sites about astrology, horoscopes, numerology, palm reading and so on; sites that offer services to fortell the future. |
Automobiles | Sites that all related to (Cars,Bikes,Planes, Boats etc.,) Included are vendor sites, resellers, fan and hobby pages as well as and suppliers |
banking | the web sites belonging to all the banks around the world which provide the online access. |
blogs | personal websites as well as all types of blogs: individual, group and even company ones. |
business | This is a catch-all category which covers the corporate web sites which typically do not belong to any other category. |
chat | Sites with chat rooms etc |
childcare | Sites to do with childcare |
computersandsoftware | the web sites offering the computer software, typically either opensource, freeware or shareware . |
cooking | Sites about concerning food ,food preparation and all about cooking |
drugs | The “Medicine/Alcohol/Cigars” web sites, which are discussing the use or selling the (legal) medical drugs or tobacco products |
Dynamic(Dialup) Addresses | All domains where people login obtaining a dynamic IP address. |
ecommerce | The known online stores. An web site is considered an online store if it sells goods or service online. |
education | the web sites belonging to official education institutions, including those outside the .edu domain. |
entertainment | websites that provide information related to artistic activities, museums, humor and as well as websites that review movies |
filesharing | the file sharing web sites where a user could upload a file or files, and share them with the others. |
finance | Sites about finance in general and all about Insurance,Moneylending, Realestate,Trading, and stock exchange and home page of banking companies |
gambling | The gambling web sites. Those are the “online casino” or “online lottery” type web sites which typically require |
games | Web pages which provide online games – typically Adobe Flash or JAVA applets. |
government | the government web sites, including the government institutions,embassies and office web sites. |
hacking | the web sites providing the hacking tools, articles and discussion platforms for the hackers. |
health | websites associated with medical institutions, websites related to disease prevention and treatment, hygiene and other personal grooming related stuff |
hobbies | websites that present resources related to activities typically performed during an individual’s free time |
hosting | free and commercial website hosting services |
illegal | The web sites related to software piracy, including:Peer to peer (BitTorrent, emule, DC++) |
instant messaging | the instant messaging and chat web sites, which allow users to chat in real time. |
Internet Phone | Sites that enable user to phone via the Internet. Any site where users can voice-chat with each other. |
Internet Service Provider | Home pages of Internet Service Providers. Sites of companies offering webspace only are now being added, too |
jewelry | Sites about and selling jewelry |
jobsearch | the websites presenting job boards, job-related classified ads and career opportunities. |
leisure | websites where individuals tend to spend long amounts of time. |
Library | Online libraries and sites where you can read e-books. |
liquor | Sites of breweries, wineries and destilleries. This category also covers sites that explain how to make beer, wines and spirits. |
marketing | Sites about marketing products |
maturecontent | the content which was labeled by the web site creator as requiring the mature audience and sites relating to sexuality and educational information about sexuality. |
medical | Sites provide medical info and medical facilities as well as hospitals |
Military | Sites of military facilities or related to the armed forces. |
mobile-phone | stuff for mobile/cell phones |
multimedia | Sites that offer the download of music, information about music groups or music in general and Sites offering podcasts or podcast services, includes audio books. |
narcotics | the web sites sharing the information about the narcotics such as recreational and illegal drugs. |
naturism | Sites that contain nude pictures and/or promote a nude lifestyle |
news | the news web sites which provide text and video news.It strives to cover both global and local news web sites |
online dating | the online dating sites – paid and free - where users can search for users person using some criteria. |
online pay | The web sites offering the online payments or money transfers like PayPal or Moneybookers. |
onlineauctions | Online auctions |
pets | All topics concerning pets |
phishing | Sites attempting to trick people into giving out private information. |
photosonline | the photo sharing web sites, whose primary purpose is to let the users to share the photos. |
Politics | Sites of political parties, political organisations and associations; sites with political discussions. |
pornography | sites containing erotic and pornography. It includes both paid and free sites. |
portals | websites that aggregate information from multiple sources and various domains, and that usually offer features such as search engines, e-mail, news and entertainment information. |
radiomusic | websites that offer Internet music streaming services, from online radio stations to websites that provide on demand (free or paid) audio content. |
regionaltlds | the web sites which belong to a regional top level domain, i.e. ending with .com, .org or so. |
religious | the web sites promoting a religion or sect. Also cover the discussion forums related to one or multiple religions. |
Remote Control | Sites offering the service to remotely access computers, especially (but not limited to going) through firewalls. This does not cover traditional VPN. |
searchengines | the search engine web sites such as Google, Yahoo, Bing and so on. |
social networks | the social network web sites. This include MySpace.com,Facebook.com, Bebo.com, etc. |
sports | websites that offer sports information, news and tutorials. |
spyware | Sites that try to actively install software or lure the user in doing so in order to spy the surfing behaviour (or worse). The home calling sites where the collected information is |
suicide | the web sites promoting, offering or advocating the suicide. It does not cover the suicide prevention clinics. |
tabloids | This category is mainly designed for soft pornography and celebrity gossip sites |
Tracker | Sites keeping an eye on where you surf and what you do in a passive manner. Covers web bugs, counters and other tracking mechanisms in web pages that do not interfere |
travel | websites that present travel offers, travel equipment as well as travel destination reviews and ratings. |
updatesites | Sites where software updates are downloaded from including virus sigs and List to allow necessary downloads from vendors. |
vacation | Sites about going on holiday |
video | The web pages which host various videos or photos, either uploaded by users or provided by various content providers. |
violence | This category is catch-all for the “Hate, Violence, Racism” category, and is intended to block |
violentcartoons | the web sites discussing, sharing and offering the violent cartoons or violent manga |
virusinfected | Sites who host virus infected files |
weapons | the web sites offering the weapons for sale or exchange, manufacture or usage. |
weather | Weather news sites and weather related |
web proxy | Web pages which provide web proxy service. |
Web TV | Sites offering TV streams via Internet. |
webmail | websites that provide e-mail functionality as a web application. |