Category Definitions

• Adult Topics Sexual, harmful or ilicit content, including pornography, substance use, violence and strong topics.
  • Adult/Mature Content Sites with profane or vulgar content generally considered inappropriate for minors; includes sites that offer erotic content or ads for sexual services, but exclude sites with sexually explicit images
  • Pornography Sites with sexually explicit imagery designed for sexual arousal, including sites the offer sex services
  • Nudity Sites showing nute or partially nude images that are generally considered artistic, not vulgar or pornographic
  • Sex Education Sites with or without explicit images that discuss reproduction, sexuality, birth control, sexually transmitted disease, safe sex, or coping with sexual trauma
  • Intimate Apparel/Swimsuit Sites that sell swimsuits or intimate apparel with images of models wearing them
  • Tasteless Sites with content that is gratuitously offensive and shocking; includes sites that show extreme forms of body modification or mutilation and animal cruelty
  • Alcohol/Tobacco Sites that promote, sell or provide information about alcohol or tobacco products
  • Marijuana Sites that discuss the cultivation, use or preparation of marijuana, or sell related paraphernalia
  • Illegal Drugs Sites that promote, glamorize, supply, sell or explain how to use illicit or illegal intoxicants
  • Illegal/Questionable Sites that promote and discuss how to operate nonviolent crimes, including burglary, fraud, intelletual property theft, and plagiarism; includes sites that sell plagiarized or stolen materials
  • Gambling Sites that promote or provide information on gambling, including online gambling sites
  • Violence/Hate/Racism Sites that promote hate and violence; includes sites that expose prejudice against a social group, extremely violent and dangerous activities, mutilation and gore, or the creation of destructive devices
  • Weapons Sites about weapons, including their accessories and use; excludes sites about military institutions or sites that discuss waepons as sporting or recreational equipemnt
  • Abortion Sites that promote, encourage, or discuss abortion, including sites that cover moral or political views on abortion
  • Personals/Dating Sites that help visitors establish relationship, including sites that provide singles listins, matchmaking, or dating services
• Advertisement Sites created to make money from advertising or pay to surf.
  • Web Advertisement Sites dedicated to displaying advertisement, including sites used to display banner or popup ads
  • made For Google AdSense Sites that use scrapped or copied content ro pollute search engines with redundant and generally unwanted results
  • Pay to Surf Sites that compensate users who view certain websites, email messages, or advertisements or users who click links or respond to surveys
• Network Bandwidth & Downlaods Sites that offer downloads or audio/video streaming services, or other high-demand applications.
  • Internet Radio and TV Sites that primarily provide streaming radio or TV programming, excludes sites that offer kinds of streaming content
  • Streaming Media/MP3 Sites that offer streaming video or audio content without radio or TV programming; sites that provide music or video downloads, such as MP3 or AVI files
  • Ringtones/Mobile Phone Downloads Sites dedicated to providing free, trial or paid software downloads
  • Software Downloads Sites dedicated to providing free, trial or paid software downloads
  • Peer-to-Peer Sites that provide information about or software for sharing and transferring files within a peer-to-peer (P2P) network
  • Proxy Avoidance & Anonymizers Sites which can be used to circumvent proxy servers and web filtering systems, or make internet activity anonymous or untraceable, including sites that provide tools for those purposes
  • Sharing Services Sites that enable sharing of files and other content
  • Web Hosting Sites of organizations that provide top-level domains or web hosting services
  • Dynamic DNS Sites that utilize dynamic DNS host services to map their domain names to dynamic IP. Address
  • Internet Infrastructure Content servers, image servers, or sites used to gather, process, and present data and data analysis, including web analytics tools and network monitors
• Politics/Religion/Military Activism, government, guns/hunting, military, politics, religion.
  • Government/Legal Sites about the government, including laws or policies; exclkudes governemnt military or health sites
  • Activist Groups Sites that promote change in public policy, public opinion, social practice, economic activities, or economic relationships; includes sites controlled by service, philanthropic, professional, or labor organizations

  • Politics Sites that discuss or are sponsored by political parties, interest groups, or similar organizations involved in public policy issues; includes non-hate sites that discuss conspiracy theories or alternative views on government
  • Religion Sites about popular religions, their practices, or theus place of worship
  • Cult/Occult Sites about alternative religions, beliefs, and religious practices; including those considered cult or occult
  • Military Sites about military institutions or armed forces; excludes sites that discuss or sell weapons or military equipment
  • Gun Clubs/Hunting Sites about gun clubs or similar groups; includes sites about hunting, war gaming or paintball facilities
• Social/Chat/Search Social networking and online communications.
  • Social Networking Sites devoted to personal expression or cummunication, linking people with similar interests
  • Chat/Instant Messaging Sites that provide web-based services or downloadble software for text-based instant messaging or chat
  • Internet Voice Calls Sites that provide web-based services or downloadble software for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls
  • Search Engine/Portals Search engine sites or portals that provide diretories, indexes, or other retrieval, systems for the web
  • Translators/Cached Pages Online page translators or cached web pages (used by search engines), which can be used to circumvent proxy servers and web filtering systems
  • Photo Searches Sites that primarily host images, allowing users to share, organize, store or search for photos or other images
  • Email Websites Sites that provide email services, including portals used by companies for web based email
  • Blog/Web Communication Blog sites or forums on varying topics or topics not covered by other categories; sites that offer multiple types of web-based communication, such as email or instant messaging
  • Personal Sites Sites maintained by individuals about themselves or their interest, excludes personal pages in social networking sites, blog sites, or similar services
  • Newsgroups/Forums Sites that offer access to Usenet or provide other newsgroup, forum or bulletin board services
• • Shopping Sites that sell goods or support the sales of goods that do not fall under other categories; sxcludes online auction or bidding sites
  • Auctions Sites that serve as venues for selling or buying goods through bidding, including business sites that are being auctioned
• News/Business/Tech Current events, weather, business, economy and technology.
  • News/Media Sites about the news, current events, contemporary issues, or the weather; includes online magazines whose topics do not fail under other categories
  • Technology/Electrionics Sites about computers, the internet, or related technology, including sites that sell or provide reviews of electronic devices
  • Tabloids/Gossip Magazines Online equivalents of supermarket tabloids and other publications
  • Business/Economy Sites about business and the economy, including entrepreneurship and marketing, includes corporate sites that do not fall under other categories
  • Financial Services Sites that provide information about or offer basic financial services, including sites owned by businesses in the financial industry
  • Brokerage/Trading Sites about investments in stocks or bonds, including online trading sites; encludes sites about vehicle insurance
  • Real Estate Sites about real estate, including those that provide assistance selling, leasing, purchasing, or renting property
  • Job Search/Careers Sites about finding employment or employment services
• Leisure/Entertainment Games, health and fitness, hobbies, humor, motor vehicles, poplular culture, recreation.
  • Recreational/Hobbies Sites about recreational activities and hobbies, such as collecting, gardening, outdoor activities, traditional (non-video) games, and crafts; includes sites about pets, recreational facilities, or recreational organizations
  • Sports Sites about sports or other competitive physical activities; inculdes fan sites or sites that sell sports merchandise
  • Entertainment Sites that promote or provide information about movies, music, non-news radio and television, books or magazines
  • Games Sites about board games, card games, console games, or computer games, includes sites that sell games or related merchandise
  • Health Sites about health, fitness or well-being
  • Vehicles Sites about motorized transport, including customization, procurement of parts and actual vehicles, or repair services; excludes sites about military vehicles
  • Humor Sites intended for humor
  • Social/Lifestyle Sites that provide information about life or daily matters; excludes sites about entertainment, hobbies, sex or sports, but includes sites about cosmetics or fashion
  • Restaurant/Food Sites that list, review, discuss, advertise, or promote food, catering, dinning services, cooking or recipes
• Culture/Education Art, celebrity news, children's entertianment, cultural institutions, the occult, the schools.
  • Arts Sites about the visual arts, such as painting and sculpture
  • Education School sites, distance-learning sites and other education-related sites
  • Cultural Institutions Sites controlled by organizations that seek to preserve cultural heritage, such as libraries or museums; also covers sites owned by the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, Rotary International and similar organizations
  • For Kids Sites designed for children
  • Reference Material Genral specialized reference including map, encyclopedia, dictionary, weather, how-to, and conversion sites
• Untested Websites Sites we haven't tested or classified yet, The internet is a huge place, and we haven't seen everything. By allowing Untested Websites, you make sure we'll see it once you do. We'll take a look and then add it to our filters.
• Malicious Websites Sites that involve malicious domains, malware accomplice, disease vector, hacking, scm, ransomware, phishing, spyware. We highly recommend to keep this setting 'Blocked.'