Adult

Advertisements

Banner and pop-up advertisements that often accompany a web page; other advertising websites that provide advertisement content. Advertising services and sales are classified as “Business and Industry.”

• www.adforce.com
• www.doubleclick.com

Alcohol

Alcohol as a pleasurable activity; beer and wine making, cocktail recipes; liquor sellers, wineries, vineyards, breweries, alcohol distributors. Alcohol addiction is classified as “Health and Nutrition.” Bars and restaurants are classified as “Dining and Drinking.”

• www.samueladams.com
• www.whisky.com

Arts

Galleries and exhibitions; artists and art; photography; literature and books; performing arts and theater; musicals; ballet; museums; design; architecture. Cinema and television are classified as “Entertainment.”

• www.moma.org
• www.nga.gov

Astrology

Astrology, horoscope, fortune telling, numerology, psychic advice, tarot.

• www.astro.com
• www.astrology.com

Auctions

Online and offline auctions, auction houses, and classified advertisements.

• www.craigslist.com
• www.ebay.com

Business and Industry

Marketing, commerce, corporations, business practices, workforce, human resources, transportation, payroll, security and venture capital; office supplies; industrial equipment (process equipment), machines and mechanical systems; heating equipment, cooling equipment; materials handling equipment; packaging equipment; manufacturing; solids handling, metal fabrication, construction and building; passenger transportation; commerce; industrial design; construction, building materials; shipping and freight (freight services, trucking, freight forwarders, truckload carriers, freight and transportation brokers, expedited services, load and freight matching, track and trace, rail shipping, ocean shipping, road feeder services, moving and storage).

• www.freightcenter.com
• www.staples.com

Chat and Instant Messaging

Web-based instant messaging and chat rooms.

• www.icq.com
• www.meebo.com

Cheating and Plagiarism

Promoting cheating and selling written work, such as term papers, plagiarism.

• www.bestessays.com
• www.superiorpapers.com

Child Abuse Content

Worldwide illegal child sexual abuse content. In Cisco ScanCenter, Cisco blocks all child abuse content for all customers without exception, and for legal reasons keeps no logs. This category is never displayed in Cisco ScanCenter.

Note	In the Cisco Web Security Appliance, when URL categorization is enabled, this category is logged in the access logs regardless of whether the content is blocked.

Computer Security

Offering security products and services for corporate and home users.

• www.computersecurity.com
• www.symantec.com

Caution

Cisco ScanCenter is included in the Computer Security category. Therefore, any policies created for the Computer Security category will also apply to Cisco ScanCenter. For example, if you add a Web filter policy that blocks the Computer Security category, your access to Cisco ScanCenter will also be blocked. A workaround is to first whitelist the Cisco ScanCenter URL before blocking the Computer Security category.

Computers and Internet

Information about computers and software, such as hardware, software, software support; information for software engineers, programming and networking; website design; the web and Internet in general; computer science; computer graphics and clipart. “Freeware and Shareware” is a separate category.

• www.w3.org
• www.xml.com

Dating

Dating, online personals, matrimonial agencies.

• www.eharmony.com
• www.match.com

Digital Postcards

Enabling sending of digital postcards and e-cards.

• www.all-yours.net
• www.delivr.net

Dining and Drinking

Eating and drinking establishments; restaurants, bars, taverns, and pubs; restaurant guides and reviews.

• www.hideawaybrewpub.com
• www.restaurantrow.com

Do It Yourself (DIY) Projects

Guidance and information to create, improve, modify, decorate, and repair something without the aid of experts or professionals.

Dynamic and Residential

IP addresses of broadband links that usually indicate users attempting to access their home network, for example, for a remote session to a home computer.

Education

Education-related, such as schools, colleges, universities, teaching materials, and teachers’ resources; technical and vocational training; online training; education issues and policies; financial aid; school funding; standards and testing.

• www.education.com
• www.greatschools.org

Entertainment

Details or discussion of films; music and bands; television; celebrities and fan websites; entertainment news; celebrity gossip; entertainment venues. Compare with the “Arts” category.

• www.eonline.com
• www.ew.com

Extreme

Material of a sexually violent or criminal nature; violence and violent behavior; tasteless, often gory photographs, such as autopsy photos; photos of crime scenes, crime and accident victims; excessive obscene material; shock websites.

• www.car-accidents.com
• www.crime-scene-photos.com

Fashion

Clothing and fashion; hair salons; cosmetics; accessories; jewelry; perfume; pictures and text relating to body modification; tattoos and piercing; modeling agencies. Dermatological products are classified as “Health and Nutrition.”

• www.fashion.net
• www.findabeautysalon.com

File Transfer Services

File transfer services with the primary purpose of providing download services and hosted file sharing

• www.rapidshare.com
• www.yousendit.com

Filter Avoidance

Promoting and aiding undetectable and anonymous web usage, including cgi, php and glype anonymous proxy services.

• www.bypassschoolfilter.com
• www.filterbypass.com

Finance

Primarily financial in nature, such as accounting practices and accountants, taxation, taxes, banking, insurance, investing, the national economy, personal finance involving insurance of all types, credit cards, retirement and estate planning, loans, mortgages. Stock and shares are classified as “Online Trading.”

• finance.yahoo.com
• www.bankofamerica.com

Freeware and Shareware

Downloads of free software and shareware .

• www.freewarehome.com
• www.shareware.com

Gambling

Casinos and online gambling; bookmakers and odds; gambling advice; competitive racing in a gambling context; sports booking; sports gambling; services for spread betting on stocks and shares. Websites dealing with gambling addiction are classified as “Health and Nutrition.” Government-run lotteries are classified as “Lotteries.”

• www.888.com
• www.gambling.com

Games

Various card games, board games, word games, and video games; combat games; sports games; downloadable games; game reviews; cheat sheets; computer games and Internet games, such as role-playing games.

• www.games.com
• www.shockwave.com

Government and Law

Government websites; foreign relations; news and information relating to government and elections; information relating to the field of law, such as attorneys, law firms, law publications, legal reference material, courts, dockets, and legal associations; legislation and court decisions; civil rights issues; immigration; patents and copyrights; information relating to law enforcement and correctional systems; crime reporting, law enforcement, and crime statistics; military, such as the armed forces, military bases, military organizations; anti-terrorism.

• www.law.com
• www.usa.gov

Hacking

Discussing ways to bypass the security of websites, software, and computers.

• www.gohacking.com
• www.hackthissite.org

Hate Speech

Websites promoting hatred, intolerance, or discrimination on the basis of social group, color, religion, sexual orientation, disability, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, gender identity; websites promoting racism, sexism, racist theology, hate music, neo-Nazi organizations, supremacism; Holocaust denial.

• www.kkk.com
• www.nazi.org

Health and Nutrition

Health care; diseases and disabilities; medical care; hospitals; doctors; medicinal drugs; mental health; psychiatry; pharmacology; exercise and fitness; physical disabilities; vitamins and supplements; sex in the context of health (disease and health care); tobacco use, alcohol use, drug use, and gambling in the context of health (disease and health care); food in general; food and beverage; cooking and recipes; food and nutrition, health, and dieting; cooking, including recipe and culinary websites; alternative medicine.

• www.health.com
• www.webmd.com

Humor

Jokes, sketches, comics, and other humorous content. Adult humor likely to offend is classified as “Adult.”

• www.humor.com
• www.jokes.com

Hunting

Professional or sport hunting, gun clubs and other hunting related sites.

Illegal Activities

Promoting crime, such as stealing, fraud, illegally accessing telephone networks; computer viruses; terrorism, bombs, and anarchy; websites depicting murder and suicide and explaining ways to commit them.

• www.ekran.no
• www.thedisease.net

Illegal Downloads

Providing the ability to download software or other materials, serial numbers, key generators, and tools for bypassing software protection in violation of copyright agreements. Torrents are classified as “Peer File Transfer.”

• www.keygenguru.com
• www.zcrack.com

Illegal Drugs

Information about recreational drugs, drug paraphernalia, drug purchase, and manufacture.

• www.cocaine.org
• www.hightimes.com

Infrastructure and Content Delivery

Content delivery infrastructure and dynamically generated content; websites that cannot be classified more specifically because they are secured or otherwise difficult to classify.

• www.akamai.net
• www.webstat.net

Internet Telephony

Telephonic services using the Internet.

• www.evaphone.com
• www.skype.com

Job Search

Career advice; resume writing and interviewing skills; job placement services; job databanks; permanent and temporary employment agencies; employer websites.

• www.careerbuilder.com
• www.monster.com

Lingerie and Swimsuits

Intimate apparel and swimwear, especially when modeled.

• www.swimsuits.com
• www.victoriassecret.com

Lotteries

Sweepstakes, contests, and state-sponsored lotteries.

• www.calottery.com
• www.flalottery.com

Military

Military, such as the armed forces, military bases, military organizations, and anti-terrorism.

Mobile Phones

Short Message Services (SMS); ringtones and mobile phone downloads. Cellular carrier websites are included in the “Business and Industry” category.

• www.cbfsms.com
• www.zedge.net

Nature

Natural resources; ecology and conservation; forests; wilderness; plants; flowers; forest conservation; forest, wilderness, and forestry practices; forest management (reforestation, forest protection, conservation, harvesting, forest health, thinning, and prescribed burning); agricultural practices (agriculture, gardening, horticulture, landscaping, planting, weed control, irrigation, pruning, and harvesting); pollution issues (air quality, hazardous waste, pollution prevention, recycling, waste management, water quality, and the environmental cleanup industry); animals, pets, livestock, and zoology; biology; botany.

• www.enature.com
• www.nature.org

News

News, headlines, newspapers, television stations, magazines, weather, ski conditions.

• news.bbc.co.uk
• www.cnn.com

Non-Governmental Organizations

Non-governmental organizations such as clubs, lobbies, communities, non-profit organizations and labor unions.

• www.panda.org
• www.unions.org

Non-Sexual Nudity

Nudism and nudity; naturism; nudist camps; artistic nudes.

• www.artenuda.com
• www.naturistsociety.com

Online Communities

Affinity groups; special interest groups; web newsgroups; message boards. Excludes websites classified as “Professional Networking” or “Social Networking.”

• www.ieee.org
• www.igda.org

Online Meetings

Online meetings, desktop sharing, remote access, and other tools that facilitate multi-location collaboration.

Online Storage and Backup

Offsite and peer-to-peer storage for backup, sharing, and hosting.

• www.adrive.com
• www.dropbox.com

Online Trading

Online brokerages; websites that enable the user to trade stocks online; information relating to the stock market, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, brokers, stock analysis and commentary, stock screens, stock charts, IPOs, stock splits. Services for spread-betting on stocks and shares are classified as “Gambling.” Other financial services are classified as “Finance.”

• www.scottrade.com
• www.tdameritrade.com

Organizational Email

Websites used to access business email (often via Outlook Web Access).

Paranormal

UFOs, ghosts, cryptid, telekenesis, urban legends, and myths.

Parked Domains

Websites that monetize traffic from the domain using paid listings from an ad network, or are owned by “squatters” hoping to sell the domain name for a profit. These also include fake search websites which return paid ad links.

• www.domainzaar.com
• www.parked.com

Peer File Transfer

Peer-to-peer file request websites. Using this category in a web filter does not track the file transfers themselves.

• www.bittorrent.com
• www.limewire.com

Personal Sites

Websites about and from private individuals; personal homepage servers; websites with personal contents; personal blogs with no particular theme.

• www.karymullis.com
• www.stallman.org

Personal VPN

Virtual private network (VPN) sites or tools that are typically used for personal use and may or may not be approved for corporate use.

Photo Searches and Images

Facilitating the storing and searching for, images, photographs, and clip art.

• www.flickr.com
• www.photobucket.com

Politics

Websites of politicians; political parties; news and information on politics, elections, democracy, and voting.

• www.politics.com
• www.thisnation.com

Pornography

Sexually explicit text or depictions. Includes explicit anime and cartoons; general explicit depictions; other fetish material; explicit chat rooms; sex simulators; strip poker; adult movies; lewd art; web-based explicit email.

• www.redtube.com
• www.youporn.com

Professional Networking

Social networking for the purpose of career or professional development. See also “Social Networking.”

• www.linkedin.com
• www.europeanpwn.net

Real Estate

Information that would support the search for real estate; office and commercial space; real estate listings, such as rentals, apartments, and homes; house building.

• www.realtor.com
• www.zillow.com

Reference

City and state guides, maps, time, reference sources, dictionaries, libraries.

• www.wikipedia.org
• www.yellowpages.com

Religion

Religious content, information about religions, religious communities.

• www.religionfacts.com
• www.religioustolerance.org

SaaS and B2B

Web portals for online business services; online meetings.

• www.netsuite.com
• www.salesforce.com

Safe for Kids

Directed at, and specifically approved for, young children.

• kids.discovery.com
• www.nickjr.com

Science and Technology

Science and technology, such as aerospace, electronics, engineering, mathematics, and other similar disciplines; space exploration; meteorology; geography; environment; energy (fossil, nuclear, renewable); communications (telephones, telecommunications).

• www.physorg.com
• www.science.gov

Search Engines and Portals

Search engines and other initial points of access to information on the Internet.

• www.bing.com
• www.google.com

Sex Education

Factual websites dealing with sex, sexual health, contraception, pregnancy.

• www.avert.org
• www.scarleteen.com

Shopping

Bartering; online purchasing; coupons and free offers; general office supplies; online catalogs; online malls.

• www.amazon.com
• www.shopping.com

Social Networking

Social networking. See also “Professional Networking.”

• www.facebook.com
• www.twitter.com

Social Sciences

Sciences and history related to society; archaeology; anthropology; cultural studies; history; linguistics; geography; philosophy; psychology; women’s studies.

• www.anthropology.net
• www.archaeology.org

Society and Culture

Family and relationships; ethnicity; social organizations; genealogy; seniors; child-care.

• www.childcare.gov
• www.familysearch.org

Software Updates

Websites that host updates for software packages.

• www.softwarepatch.com
• www.versiontracker.com

Sports and Recreation

All sports, professional and amateur; recreational activities; fishing; fantasy sports; public parks; amusement parks; water parks; theme parks; zoos and aquariums; spas.

• www.espn.com
• www.recreation.gov

Streaming Audio

Real-time streaming audio content including Internet radio and audio feeds.

• www.live-radio.net
• www.shoutcast.com

Streaming Video

Real-time streaming video including Internet television, web casts, and video sharing.

• www.hulu.com
• www.youtube.com

Tobacco

Pro-tobacco websites; tobacco manufacturers; pipes and smoking products (not marketed for illegal drug use). Tobacco addiction is classified as “Health and Nutrition.”

• www.bat.com
• www.tobacco.org

Transportation

Personal transportation; information about cars and motorcycles; shopping for new and used cars and motorcycles; car clubs; boats, airplanes, recreational vehicles (RVs), and other similar items. Note, car and motorcycle racing is classified as “Sports and Recreation.”

• www.cars.com
• www.motorcycles.com

Travel

Business and personal travel; travel information; travel resources; travel agents; vacation packages; cruises; lodging and accommodation; travel transportation; flight booking; airfares; car rental; vacation homes.

• www.expedia.com
• www.lonelyplanet.com

Unclassified

Websites that are not in the Cisco database are recorded as unclassified for reporting purposes. This category may include mistyped URLs.

Weapons

Information relating to the purchase or use of conventional weapons such as gun sellers, gun auctions, gun classified ads, gun accessories, gun shows, and gun training; general information about guns; other weapons and graphic hunting sites may be included. Government military websites are classified as “Government and Law.”

• www.coldsteel.com
• www.gunbroker.com

Web Hosting

Website hosting; bandwidth services.

• www.bluehost.com
• www.godaddy.com

Web Page Translation

Translation of web pages between languages.

• babelfish.yahoo.com
• translate.google.com

Web-Based Email

Public web-based email services. Websites enabling individuals to access their company or organization’s email service are classified as “Organizational Email.”

• mail.yahoo.com
• www.hotmail.com