Web Categorization Categories

Real Estate

Information on renting, buying, or selling real estate or properties. Tips on buying or selling a home. Real estate agents, rental or relocation services, and property improvement.

https://prudentialproperties.com https://realtor.com

Computer and Internet Security

Computer/Internet security, security discussion groups. https://siteadvisor.com

https://owasp.org

Financial Services

Banking services and other types of financial information, such as loans, accountancy, actuaries, banks, mortgages, and general insurance companies. Does not include sites that offer market information, brokerage or trading services.

https://fidelity.com https://paypal.com

Business and Economy

Business firms, corporate websites, business information, economics, marketing, management, and entrepreneurship.

https://samsung.com https://ups.com

Computer and Internet Info

General computer and Internet sites, technical information. SaaS sites and other URLs that deliver internet services.

https://pcmag.com https://amazonaws.com

Auctions

Sites that support the offering and purchasing of goods between individuals as their main purpose. Does not include classified advertisements.

https://ebay.com https://quibids.com

Shopping

Department stores, retail stores, company catalogs and other sites that allow online consumer or business shopping and the purchase of goods and services.

https://amazon.com https://groupon.com

Cult and Occult

Methods, means of instruction, or other resources to interpret, affect or influence real events through the use of astrology, spells, curses, magic powers, satanic or supernatural beings. Includes horoscope sites. https://horoscopes.com

https://numerologist.com

Travel

Airlines and flight booking agencies. Travel planning, reservations, vehicle rentals, descriptions of travel destinations, or promotions for hotels or casinos. Car rentals.

https://cheapflights.com https://expedia.com

Abused Drugs

Discussion or remedies for illegal, illicit, or abused drugs such as heroin, cocaine, or other street drugs. Information on “legal highs”: glue sniffing, misuse of prescription drugs or abuse of other legal substances. https://shroomery.org

https://passyourdrugtest.com

Adult and Pornography

Sexually explicit material for the purpose of arousing a sexual or prurient interest. Adult products including sex toys, magazines and videos. Online groups, including newsgroups and forums that are sexually explicit in nature. Erotic stories and textual descriptions of sexual acts. Adult services including videoconferencing, escort services, and strip clubs. Sexually explicit art.

https://playboy.com https://xxx.com

Home and Garden

Home issues and products, including maintenance, home safety, decor, cooking, gardening, home electronics, design, etc.

https://homedepot.com https://waysidegardens.com

Military

Information on military branches, armed services, and military history. https://defense.gov

https://goarmy.com

Social Networking

Sites that have user communities where users interact, post messages, pictures, and otherwise communicate. These sites were formerly part of Personal Sites and Blogs but have been removed to this new category to provide differentiation and more granular policy.

https://facebook.com https://twitter.com

Dead Sites

Sites that do not respond to http queries. Policy engines should usually treat these as “Uncategorized” sites. https://katsunorikondo.wixsite.com

https://a.uc129.com

Individual Stock Advice and Tools

Promotion and facilitation of securities trading and management of investment assets. Also includes information on financial investment strategies, quotes, and news.

https://stockstar.com https://morningstar.com

Training and Tools

Distance education and trade schools, online courses, vocational training, software training, skills training, online productivity tools.

https://udemy.com https://calculatorsoup.com

Dating

Dating websites focused on establishing personal relationships. https://eharmony.com

https://match.com

Sex Education

Information on reproduction, sexual development, safe sex practices, sexually transmitted diseases, sexuality, birth control, sexual development, tips for better sex as well as products used for sexual enhancement, and contraceptives.

https://sexetc.org https://sti.guidelines.org.au

Religion

Conventional or unconventional religious or quasi-religious subjects, as well as churches, synagogues, or other houses of worship.

https://islamonline.net https://catholic.org

Entertainment and Arts

Motion pictures, videos, television, music and programming guides, books, comics, movie theaters, galleries, artists, or reviews on entertainment. Performing arts (theater, vaudeville, opera, symphonies, etc.). Museums, galleries, artist sites (sculpture, photography, etc.).

https://eonline.com https://moma.org

Personal sites and Blogs

Personal websites posted by individuals or groups, as well as blogs. https://blogger.com

https://wordpress.org

Legal

Legal websites, law firms, discussions, and analysis of legal issues. https://eaglesolicitors.com

https://troutman.com

Local Information

City guides and tourist information, including restaurants, area/regional information, and local points of interest.

https://ianvisits.co.uk https://downtownlittlerock.com

Streaming Media

Sales, delivery, or streaming of audio or video content, including sites that provide downloads for such viewers.

https://youtube.com https://netflix.com

Job Search

Assistance in finding employment, and tools for locating prospective employers, or employers looking for employees.

https://monster.com https://glassdoor.com

Gambling

Gambling or lottery web sites that invite the use of real or virtual money. Information or advice for placing wagers, participating in lotteries, gambling, or running numbers. Virtual casinos and offshore gambling ventures. Sports picks and betting pools. Virtual sports and fantasy leagues that offer large rewards or request significant wagers. Hotel and Resort sites that do not enable gambling on the site are categorized in Travel or Local Information.

https://lottery.com https://powerball.com

Translation

URL and language translation sites that allow users to see URL pages in other languages. These sites can also allow users to circumvent filtering as the target page’s content is presented within the context of the translator’s URL. These sites were formerly part of Proxy Avoidance and Anonymizers but have been removed to this new category to provide differentiation and more granular policy.

https://translate.google.com https://bing.com/translator

Reference and Research

Personal, professional, or educational reference material, including online dictionaries, maps, census, almanacs, library catalogues, genealogy, and scientific information.

https://reference.com https://wikipedia.org

Shareware and Freeware

Software, screensavers, icons, wallpapers, utilities, ringtones. Includes downloads that request a donation, and open-source projects.

https://download.com https://sourceforge.net

Peer to Peer

Peer to peer clients and access. Includes torrents, music download programs. https://torrends.to

https://bitcomet.com

Marijuana

Marijuana use, cultivation, history, culture, legal issues. https://howtogrowmarijuana.com https://cannaweed.com

Hacking

Illegal or questionable access to or the use of communications equipment/software. Development and distribution of programs that may allow compromise of networks and systems. Avoidance of licensing and fees for computer programs and other systems.

https://hackplayers.com https://hackforums.net

Games

Game playing or downloading, video games, computer games, electronic games, tips, and advice on games or how to obtain cheat codes. Also includes sites dedicated to selling board games as well as journals and magazines dedicated to game playing. Includes sites that support or host online sweepstakes and giveaways. Includes fantasy sports sites that also host games or game-playing.

https://miniclip.com https://ubi.com

Philosophy and Political Advocacy

Politics, philosophy, discussions, promotion of a particular viewpoint or stance in order to further a cause. https://voteintheknow.org

https://political.com

Weapons

Sales, reviews, or descriptions of weapons such as guns, knives, or martial arts devices, or provide information on their use, accessories, or other modifications.

https://browning.com https://gunbroker.com

Pay to Surf

Sites that pay users in the form of cash or prizes, for clicking on or reading specific links, email, or web pages. https://cashcrate.com

https://inboxdollars.com

Hunting and Fishing

Sport hunting, gun clubs, and fishing. https://fishingworks.com https://gohunt.com

Society

A variety of topics, groups, and associations relevant to the general populace, broad issues that impact a variety of people, including safety, children, societies, and philanthropic groups. https://savethechildren.org

https://unicefusa.org

Educational Institutions

Pre-school, elementary, secondary, high school, college, university, and vocational school and other educational content and information, including enrollment, tuition, and syllabus.

https://mit.edu https://ucsd.edu

Online Greeting cards

Online Greeting card sites. https://123greetings.com https://greeting-cards.com

Sports

Team or conference web sites, international, national, college, professional scores, and schedules; sports- related online magazines or newsletters, fantasy sports and virtual sports leagues.

https://nba.com https://espn.com

Swimsuits & Intimate Apparel

Swimsuits, intimate apparel, or other types of suggestive clothing. https://victoriassecret.com

https://lavieenrose.com

Questionable

Tasteless humor, “get rich quick” sites, and sites that manipulate the browser user experience or client in some unusual, unexpected, or suspicious manner.

https://9gag.com https://collegehumor.com

Kids

Sites designed specifically for children and teenagers. https://mathplayground.com https://kids.nationalgeographic.com

Hate and Racism

Sites that contain content and language in support of hate crimes and racism such as Nazi, neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan, etc.

https://americannaziparty.com https://kkk.com

Personal Storage

Online storage and posting of files, music, pictures, and other data. https://dropbox.com

https://freefilehosting.net

Violence

Sites that advocate violence, depictions, and methods, including game/comic violence and suicide. https://documentingreality.com

https://seegore.com

Keyloggers and Monitoring

Downloads and discussion of software agents that track a user’s keystrokes or monitor their web surfing habits.

https://keylogger.org https://mspy.com

Search Engines

Search interfaces using key words or phrases. Returned results may include text, websites, images, videos, and files.

https://google.com https://sogou.com

Internet Portals

Web sites that aggregate a broader set of Internet content and topics, and which typically serve as the starting point for an end user.

https://yahoo.com https://qq.com

Web Advertisements

Advertisements, media, content, and banners. https://ads.google.com

https://criteo.com

Cheating

Sites that support cheating and contain such materials, including free essays, exam copies, plagiarism, etc. https://elitetutorslab.com

https://echeat.com

Gross

Vomit and other bodily functions, bloody clothing, etc. https://ratemyvomit.com

https://messytube.com

Web based email

Sites offering web-based email and email clients. https://google.com/mail

https://mail.aol.com

Malware Sites

Malicious content including executables, drive-by infection sites, malicious scripts, viruses, trojans, and code. https://webrootresearch.com/dummyURLs/56/

Phishing and Other Frauds

Phishing, pharming, and other sites that pose as a reputable site, usually to harvest personal information from a user. These sites are typically quite short-lived, so examples don’t last long. Please contact us if you need fresh data.

https://webrootresearch.com/dummyURLs/57/

Proxy Avoidance and Anonymizers

Proxy servers and other methods to gain access to URLs in any way that bypasses URL filtering or monitoring. Web-based translation sites that circumvent filtering.

https://anonymouse.org https://hideme.in

Spyware and Adware

Spyware or Adware sites that provide or promote information gathering or tracking that is unknown to, or without the explicit consent of, the end user or the organization, also unsolicited advertising popups and programs that may be installed on a user’s computer.

https://webrootresearch.com/dummyURLs/59/

Music

Music sales, distribution, streaming, information on musical groups and performances, lyrics, and the music business.

https://music.amazon.com https://bandcamp.com

Government

Information on government, government agencies and government services such as taxation, public, and emergency services. Also includes sites that discuss or explain laws of various governmental entities.

Includes local, county, state, and national government sites. https://nasa.gov

https://premier-ministre.gouv.fr

Nudity

Nude or seminude depictions of the human body. These depictions are not necessarily sexual in intent or effect but may include sites containing nude paintings or photo galleries of artistic nature. This category also includes nudist or naturist sites that contain pictures of nude individuals.

https://naturistbnb.com https://purenudism.com

News and Media

Current events or contemporary issues of the day. Also includes radio stations and magazines, newspapers online, headline news sites, newswire services, personalized news services, and weather sites https://abcnews.go.com

https://bbc.co.uk

Illegal

Criminal activity, how not to get caught, copyright and intellectual property violations, etc. https://newid.com

https://superiorfakedegrees.com

Content Delivery Networks

Delivery of content and data for third parties, including ads, media, files, images, and video. https://cloudfront.net

https://metacdn.com

Internet Communications

Internet telephony, messaging, VoIP services and related businesses. https://skype.com

https://chatib.com

Bot Nets

These are URLs, typically IP addresses, which are determined to be part of a Bot network, from which network attacks are launched. Attacks may include SPAM messages, DOS, SQL injections, proxy jacking, and other unsolicited contacts.

https://webrootresearch.com/dummyURLs/67/

Abortion

Abortion topics, either pro-life or pro-choice. https://abortion.procon.org https://nafcanada.org

Health and Medicine

General health, fitness, well-being, including traditional and non-traditional methods and topics. Medical information on ailments, various conditions, dentistry, psychiatry, optometry, and other specialties.

Hospitals and doctor offices. Medical insurance. Cosmetic surgery. https://webmd.com

https://missionvalleymedical.com

SPAM URLs

URLs contained in SPAM. https://webrootresearch.com/dummyURLs/71/

Dynamically Generated Content

Domains that generate content dynamically based on arguments to their URL or other information (like geo- location) on the incoming web request.

https://webrootresearch.com/dummyURLs/74/

Parked Domains

Parked domains are URLs which host limited content or click-through ads which may generate revenue for the hosting entities but generally do not contain content useful to the end user. Also includes Under Construction, folders, and web server default home pages.

https://ranking.com https://whitehouse.info

Alcohol and Tobacco

Sites that provide information on, promote, or support the sale of alcoholic beverages or tobacco products and associated paraphernalia.

https://thompsoncigar.com https://wineinsiders.com

Image and Video Search

Photo and image searches, online photo albums/digital photo exchange, image hosting. https://images.google.fr

https://photobucket.com

Fashion and Beauty

Fashion or glamour magazines, beauty, clothes, cosmetics, style. https://hermes.com

https://vogue.com

Recreation and Hobbies

Information, associations, forums and publications on recreational pastimes such as collecting, kit airplanes, outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, rock climbing, specific arts, craft, or techniques; animal and pet related information, including breed-specifics, training, shows and humane societies.

https://justdive.pt https://dogtime.com

Motor Vehicles

Car reviews, vehicle purchasing or sales tips, parts catalogs. Auto trading, photos, discussion of vehicles including motorcycles, boats, cars, trucks and RVs. Journals and magazines on vehicle modifications. https://carmax.com

https://camperbuyer.com

Web Hosting

Free or paid hosting services for web pages and information concerning their development, publication and promotion.

https://siteground.com https://bluehost.com

Self-Harm

Self-Harm category, URLs promoting self-harm such as, anorexia, bulimia, and other types of self-harm are created for endpoint policy-enforcement.

https://lostallhope.com https://poemsofselfharm.tumblr.com

DNS Over HTTPS

Known DNS Over HTTPs (DoH) providers and domains https://cloudflare-dns.com

https://doh.opendns.com

Low-THC Cannabis Products

Sites with content containing low-THC, non-psychoactive products including CBD oils, resin, extracts, herbs, capsules, supplements, foods, drinks, and toiletries/skin care products.

https://alwayspureorganics.com https://directhemp.com

Generative AI

Artificial Intelligence tools and systems that are used to generate new text, images, video, audio, code, or other types of synthetic data.

https://bard.google.com https://chat.openai.com/chat

WEBROOT RECOMMENDED GROUPINGS

•Numbers included indicate corresponding category number

Grouping

Description

Corresponding Categories

Malware Sites (56)

Phishing and other Frauds (57)

Proxy Avoidance and Anonymizers (58)

Security

These sites contain content that may be harmful to your system, networks,

and/or users.

Spyware and Adware (59)

Bot Nets (67)

SPAM URLs (71)

Keyloggers and Monitoring (49)

DNS Over HTTPS (86)

WEBROOT RECOMMENDED GROUPINGS

•Numbers included indicate corresponding category number

Productivity

These categories can be used to set filtering policies depending on your customers’ desired usage.

Real Estate (1)

Computer and Internet Security (2) Business and Economy (4) Computer and Internet Info (5) Auctions (6)

Shopping (7)

Travel (9)

Home and Garden (12) Military (13)

Social Networking (14)

Individual Stock Advice and Tools (16) Training and Tools (17)

Entertainment and Arts (21) Personal Sites and Blogs (22) Local Information (24)

Job Search (26)

Reference and Research (29) Games (34)

Philosophy and Political Advocacy (35) Pay to Surf (37)

Hunting and Fishing (38) Society (39)

Educational Institutions (40)

Sports (42)

Kids (45)

Search Engines (50)

Internet Portals (51)

Music (60)

News and Media (63)

Dynamically Generated Content (74) Fashion and Beauty (79)

Recreation and Hobbies (80) Motor Vehicles (81)

Generative AI (88)

IT resources

These sites may contain content that heavily utilizes network bandwidth.

Streaming Media (25) Shareware and Freeware (30) Peer to Peer (31)

Online Greeting Cards (41) Personal Storage/Data Privacy (47) Web Advertisements (52)

Content Delivery Networks (65) Internet Communications (66)

Web Hosting (82)

Privacy

Traffic going to and from these sites may contain highly sensitive personal information.

Financial Services (3)

Legal (23)

Web-based Email (55)

Government (61)

Health and Medicine (69)

Sensitive

These sites may contain content unsuitable for a work environment or for certain audiences.

Cult and Occult (8) Abused Drugs (10)

Adult and Pornography (11) Self-Harm (85)

Low-THC Cannabis Products (87) Dating (18)

Sex Education (19)

Religion (20)

Gambling (27)

Translation (28)

Marijuana (32)

Hacking (33)

Weapons (36)

Swimsuits and Intimate Apparel (43) Questionable (44)

Hate and Racism (46) Violence (48)

Cheating (53)

Gross (54)

Nudity (62)

Illegal (64)

Abortion (68)

Parked Domains (75) Alcohol and Tobacco (76) Image and Video Search (78)

Misc.

These categories are used for Webroot internal database operations.

Dead sites (15)