URL Categories

Descriptions of Web Filter Pro Web Content Categories

1. ADULT CONTENT

Depiction of erotic or sexual acts of sexually oriented material such as pornography. Exceptions to this are web sites that contain information relating to sexuality and sexual health, which may be classified under the Health Sites Category (21). Examples:

• playboy.com
• worldsex.com
• youporn.com

2. NEWS

Information articles on recent events pertaining to topics surrounding a locality (eg. a town, city or nation) or culture, including weather forecasting information. Typically this would include most real-time online news publications and technology or trade journals. This does not include financial quotes, refer to the Investment Sites category (11), or sports, refer to the Sports category (16). Examples:

• cnn.com
• bbc.com/news
• news.com

3. JOB SEARCH

Includes facilities to search for or submit online employment applications. This also includes resume writing and posting and interviews, as well as staff recruitment and training services. Examples:

• monster.com
• careerbuilder.com
• seek.com

4. GAMBLING

Includes advertisement or encouragement of, or facilities allowing for the partaking of any form of gambling; For money or otherwise. This includes online gaming, bookmaker odds and lottery web sites. This does not include traditional or computer based games; refer to the Games Sites category (10). Examples:

• casino.com
• lottery.com
• horse-races.net

5. TRAVEL / TOURISM

Information relating to travel activities including travelling for recreation and travel reservation facilities. Examples:

• expedia.com
• hotels.com
• world-tourism.org

6. SHOPPING

A web site may be classified under the Shopping category if its content includes any form of advertisement of goods or services to be exchanged for money, and may also include the facilities to perform that transaction online. Included in this category are market promotions, catalogue selling and merchandising services. Examples:

• amazon.com
• ebay.co.uk
• shopping.yahoo.com

7. ENTERTAINMENT

Any general form of entertainment that is not specifically covered by another category. Some examples of this are music sites, movies, hobbies, special interest, and fan clubs. This category also includes personal web pages such as those provided by ISPs. The following categories more specifically cover various entertainment content types, Pornography / Sex (1), Gambling (4), Chatrooms (8), Game Sites (10), Sports (16), Clubs and Societies (22) and Music Downloads (23). Examples:

• imdb.com
• netflix.com
• eonline.com

8. CHATROOMS/INSTANT MESSAGING

A web site may be classified under the Chatrooms/Instant Messaging category if its content focuses on or includes real-time on-line interactive discussion groups. This also includes bulletin boards, message boards, online forums, discussion groups as well as URLs for downloading chat software. Examples:

• chatroom.org
• chat.yahoo.com
• web.icq.com/icqchat

9. DATING SITES

A web site may be classified under the Dating Sites category if its content includes facilities to submit and review personal advertisements, arrange romantic meetings with other people, mail order bride / foreign spouse introductions and escort services. Examples:

• adultfriendfinder.com
• lavalife.com
• singlesites.com

10. GAME SITES

A web site may be classified under the Game Sites category if its content focuses on or includes the review of games, traditional or computer based, or incorporates the facilities for downloading computer game related software, or playing or participating in online games. Examples:

• ea.com
• gamespot.com
• acecheats.com

11. INVESTMENT SITES

A web site may be classified under the Investment Sites category if its content includes information, services or facilities pertaining to personal investment. URLs in this category include contents such as brokerage services, online portfolio setup, money management forums or stock quotes. This category does not include electronic banking facilities; refer to the E-Banking category (12). Examples:

• retireinvest.com.au
• stock-options.com
• invest-faq.com

12. E-BANKING

Electronic banking information or services. This category does not include Investment related content; refer to the Investment Sites category (11). Examples:

• commbank.com.au
• natwest.co.uk
• cibc.ca

13. CRIME / TERRORISM

A web site may be classified under the Crime / Terrorism category if its content includes the description, promotion or instruction in, criminal or terrorist activities, cultures or opinions. Example:

• beatthebandit.com

14. PERSONAL BELIEFS/CULTS

A web site may be classified under the Crime / Terrorism category if its content includes the description, promotion or instruction in, criminal or terrorist activities, cultures or opinions. Example:

• ccclincolnshire.org
• paganfed.demon.co.uk
• cultdeadcow.com

15. POLITICS

Information or opinions of a political nature, electoral information and including political discussion groups.Examples:

• alp.org.au
• dallas.logcabin.org
• politics.com

16. SPORTS

Information or instructions relating to recreational or professional sports, or reviews on sporting events and sports scores. Examples:

• sports.com
• soccer.com
• mtbpics.com.au

17. WW-EMAIL SITES

A web site may be classified under the www-Email Sites category if its content includes online, web-based email facilities. Examples:

• hotmail.com
• mail.yahoo.com
• aolmail.aol.com

18. VIOLENCE / UNDESIRABLE

Content that is extremely violent or horrific in nature. This includes the promotion, description or depiction of violent acts, as well as websites that have undesirable content and may not be classified elsewhere. Examples:

• rotten.com
• ratemypoo.com

19. MALICIOUS

A web site may be classified under the Malicious category if its content is capable of causing damage to a computer or computer environment, including the unauthorized consumption of network bandwidth. Online proxy services used to evade filtering software are included in the Malicious category. Example:

• astalavista.box.sk

20. SEARCH SITES

A web site may be classified under the Search Sites category if its main focus is providing online Internet search facilities. Refer to the section on special categories at the start of this document. Examples:

• google.com
• yahoo.com
• altavista.com

21. HEALTH SITES

A web site may be classified under the Health Sites category if its content includes health related information or services, including sexuality and sexual health, as well as support groups, hospital and surgical information and medical journals. Examples:

• samhsa.gov
• personalhealthzone.com
• safemedication.com

22. CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

A web site may be classified under the Clubs and Societies category if its content includes information or services of relating to a club or society. This includes team or conference web sites. Examples:

• apex.com
• sierraclub.org
• isoc.org

23. MUSIC/VIDEO

Online music or video downloading, uploading and sharing facilities as well as high bandwidth audio or video streaming. Examples:

• musicmass.com
• youtube.com
• itunes.com
• mp3dimension.com

24. BUSINESS ORIENTED

A web site may be classified under the Business Oriented category if its content is relevant to general day-to-day business or proper functioning of the Internet, e.g. Web browser updates. Access to web sites in this category would in most cases not be considered unproductive or inappropriate.

25. GOVERNMENT BLOCKING LIST

This category is populated with URLs specified by a government agency, and contains URLs that are deemed unsuitable for viewing by the general public by way of their very extreme nature. Examples:

• Child pornography sites
• Bestiality sites
• Rape sites

26. EDUCATIONAL

A web site classified under the Educational category may belong to other categories but has content that relates to educational services or has been deemed of educational value, or to be an educational resource, by educational organizations. This category is populated by request or submission from various educational organizations. Refer to the section on special categories at the start of this document. Examples:

• discovery.com
• highschoolhub.org
• home-school.com

27. ADVERTISING

A web site may be classified under the Advertising category if its main focus includes providing advertising related information or services. Examples:

• traffimagic.com
• ads.com
• doubleclick.com

28. DRUGS/ALCOHOL

A web site may be classified under the Drugs/Alcohol category if its content includes drug and alcohol related information or services. Some URLs categorized under this category may also be categorized under the Health category. Examples:

• online-cocktail-guide.com
• jackdaniels.com
• cultdrinks.com

29. COMPUTING/IT

A web site may be classified under the Computing/IT category if its content includes computing related information or services. This includes traffic associated with facilities such as Microsoft Windows update. Examples:

• redhat.com
• squid-cache.org
• gnu.org

30. SWIMSUIT/LINGERIE/MODELS

A web site may be categorized under the Swimsuit/Lingerie/Models category if its content includes information pertaining to, or images of swimsuit, lingerie or general fashion models. Examples:

• ralph.ninemsn.com.au
• victoriassecret.com
• sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2002/swimsuit

31. REMOTE CONTROL/DESKTOP

A web site may be classified under the Remote Control/Desktop category if its content includes remote system management/control information or services. Example:

• rdplus.com.au