| Advertising |
Sites that provide banner advertising servers. |
| Alcohol |
Sites promoting alcohol use, including drink recipes, home brewing methods, advertisements, etc. |
| Anonymous Proxy and Hacking |
Sites specifically designed to bypass content filters and security. Promotion, instruction, or advice on the questionable or illegal use of computer equipment and software. |
| Art |
Sites providing online galleries, museums and artist sites. |
| Automotive |
Sites of automobile manufacturers, dealers, sales and clubs. |
| Chat |
Sites and protocols related to Instant Messaging and Chat applications. |
| Chat Extended |
Sites and protocols related to additional Instant Messaging features such as, File Sharing, Voice over IP, Streaming Internet Radio Video Messaging, etc. |
| Consumer Information |
Sites with consumer-generated reviews, buying tips, ratings and pricing. |
| Criminal Skills |
Sites advocating, instructing, or giving advice on performing illegal acts. |
| Cult and occult |
Sites promoting cult or occult matters and other types of psychological control or manipulation. |
| Drugs |
Sites promoting the use or purchase of illegal drugs and narcotics, including techniques and products. |
| Dynamic Hosting |
Sites for third party content provider networks that service a wide range of frequently changing content using a distributed network of servers. |
| Education |
Sites sponsored by schools or other educational facilities, faculty or alumni groups that promote educational events or activities. |
| Entertainment |
Sites containing movies, theater times, comic strips, television, music, hobbies, rock bands, etc. |
| Finance/Investing |
Sites of financial trade, financial news, online banking services, trading exchanges. |
| Gambling |
Sites which encourage gambling such as betting sites, bookmaker odds, lottery, bingo, online sport betting, and online casinos. |
| Games |
Sites related to computer or other games, game download and online game sites. |
| General Business |
Sites sponsored by or devoted to individual business firms. |
| Glamour |
Sites related to fashion and modeling. |
| Government |
Sites sponsored by government branches or agencies. |
| Hate speech |
Sites containing material related to the discrimination of any group of people based on race, religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, etc. |
| Health |
Sites that provide information or advice on personal health or medical services, health insurance, procedures, or devices. This includes information such as diet, nutritional facts, therapies and counseling services. |
| Hobbies |
Sites that provide information on private and largely sedentary pastimes. |
| Hosting Sites |
Sites for third party content provider networks that service a wide range of frequently changing content using a distributed network of servers. |
| HTTPS Trusted |
HTTPS sites with signed certificates that don’t fall within a current category. |
| HTTPS Unrated |
HTTPS sites not seen before that will be processed within 24 hours and moved to an appropriate category. |
| HTTPS Untrusted |
HTTPS sites with self-signed certificates. |
| Internet Tools |
Sites or services that give users the ability to store personal information or remotely access Web-Conferencing. |
| Job search |
Sites that offer information on or support seeking employment. |
| Law |
Sites with legal content to include laws, legal topics and lawyers. |
| Lingerie |
Sites selling or modeling undergarments or lingerie. |
| Mature content |
Sites with mature content that may not be considered explicitly pornographic- like lingerie, swimsuits and revealing pictures. |
| Military |
Sites sponsored by military branches or agencies. |
| News |
Sites relating to mainstream online news publications or media format such as print, radio, or television. |
| Nudism and Naturism |
Sites related to nudists and naturists. |
| Peer-to-peer |
Sites and protocols related to file sharing applications. example: KaZaa and Gnutella. |
| Personals/Dating |
Sites related to personal ads, dating sites and services, relationships, introductions. |
| Politics and Religion |
Sites that pertain to politicians, election campaigns, political organizations and publications, churches and related publications, discussion forums, religions. |
| Pornography |
Sites with nudity of any sort, vulgarity, including the likes of Playboy, Hustler, Penthouse, etc. |
| Portal |
Site or service that offers a broad array of resources and services, such as e-mail, forums, search engines, and on-line shopping malls. |
| Reference |
Personal, professional, or educational references to include online dictionaries, maps, and language translation sites. |
| Science |
Sites whose primary function is to provide scientific/research pages or materials. |
| Sex Education |
Sites offering information on sexuality and sexual content. |
| Sexual Advice |
Information related to sexual relationships and sexual issue. |
| Sexual Orientation |
Sites related to the discussion of homosexuality or other sexual orientation issues. |
| Shopping |
Sites which contain consumer oriented online shopping, online malls, real estate, automobiles, classifieds and online trading services. |
| Shopping Auction |
Shopping sites that specifically conduct their shopping business as auctions. |
| Skype |
Blocks the Skype VoIP application and protocol. |
| Society |
Sites that provide information on matters of daily life including sites that contain material relative to an individual's personal life, whether straight, gay, lesbian, or otherwise; any site pertaining to any particular culture, behavior, organization, society, club, etc. |
| Sports |
Sites that provide information on or promote sports, active games, and recreation. |
| Streaming Internet Radio |
Sites that transmit audio in real-time (i.e., as the information is received). |
| Streaming Media |
Sites that stream audio and video on demand. |
| Technology |
Sites dedicated to general computer/internet related information pertaining to both hardware and software. |
| Tobacco |
Sites that provide information on, promote, or support the sale of tobacco products, and any associated paraphernalia. |
| Travel |
Sites that offer travel tickets and reservations, travel clubs, travelogues, visitor information bureaus, travel promotions, etc. |
| Uncategorized |
Sites that don't fall into a specific category. |
| Violence |
Sites that provide information on or promote violent activity. |
| Weapons |
Sites that provide information on, promote, or support the sale of weapons and related items. |
| Web Email |
Site that allow users to send e-mail via a web browsing application including sites such as hotmail.com and Yahoo! mail. |
| Web Log |
(also known as blog) Site that serves as a publicly-accessible personal journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author. |
| Web Search |
Sites that support searching the Web, news groups, or indices and directories thereof. |
| Web Search Filtered |
Sites that support searching the Web, news groups, or indices and directories thereof. These engines will not return objectionable content or explicit pictures. For Google and Yahoo, safe search options are enforced via this category. |
