• Pro-Choice

• Pro-Life

Sites that provide information about or are sponsored by organizations that oppose legal abortion or that seek increased restriction of abortion.

Adult Material

Parent category that contains the categories:

Adult Content

Sites that display full or partial nudity in a sexual context, but not sexual activity; erotica; sexual paraphernalia; sex-oriented businesses as clubs, nightclubs, escort services; and sites supporting the online purchase of such goods and services.

• Lingerie and Swimsuit

Sites that offer images of models in suggestive but not lewd costume, with semi nudity permitted. Includes classic 'cheese-cake,' calendar, and pinup art and photography. Includes also sites offering lingerie or swimwear for sale.

• Nudity

Sites that offer depictions of nude or seminude human forms, singly or in groups, not overtly sexual in intent or effect.

• Sex

Sites that depict or graphically describe sexual acts or activity, including exhibitionism; also, sites offering direct links to such sites.

• Sex Education

Sites that offer information about sex and sexuality, with no pornographic intent.

Advocacy Groups

Sites that promote change or reform in public policy, public opinion, social practice, economic activities, and relationships.

Business and Economy

Sites sponsored by or devoted to business firms, business associations, industry groups, or business in general.

Sites that offer news and quotations on stocks, bonds, and other investment vehicles, investment advice, but not online trading. Includes banks, credit unions, credit cards, and insurance.

• Hosted Business Applications

Sites that provide access to business-oriented web applications and allow storage of sensitive data, excluding those for web collaboration.

Drugs

Parent category that contains the categories:

• Abused Drugs

Sites that promote or provide information about the use of prohibited drugs, except marijuana, or the abuse or unsanctioned use of controlled or regulated drugs; also, paraphernalia associated with such use or abuse.

• Marijuana

Sites that provide information about or promote the cultivation, preparation, or use of marijuana.

• Prescribed Medications

Sites that provide information about approved drugs and their medical use.

• Supplements and Unregulated Compounds

Sites that provide information about or promote the sale or use of chemicals not regulated by the FDA (such as naturally occurring compounds).

Education

Parent category that contains the categories:

• Cultural Institutions

Sites sponsored by museums, galleries, theatres (but not movie theatres), libraries, and similar institutions; also, sites whose purpose is the display of artworks.

• Educational Institutions

Sites sponsored by schools and other educational facilities, by non-academic research institutions, or that relate to educational events and activities.

• Educational Materials

Sites that provide information about or that sell or provide curriculum materials or direct instruction; also, learned journals and similar publications.

• Reference Materials

Sites that offer reference-shelf content such as atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, formularies, white and yellow pages, and public statistical data.

Entertainment

Sites that provide information about or promote motion pictures, non-news radio and television, books, humor, and magazines.

• MP3 and Audio Download Services

Sites that support downloading of MP3 or other sound files or that serve as directories of such sites.

Extended Protection

The parent category that contains the following categories:

• Dynamic DNS

Sites that mask their identity using Dynamic DNS services, often associated with advanced persistent threats.

• Elevated Exposure

sites that camouflage their true nature or that include elements suggesting latent malign intent.

• Emerging Exploits

sites found to be hosting known and potential exploit code.

• Potentially Damaging Content

sites likely to contain little or no useful content

Gambling

Sites that provide information about or promote gambling or support online gambling, involving a risk of losing money.

Games

Sites that provide information about or promote electronic games, video games, computer games, role-playing games, or online games. Includes sweepstakes and giveaways.

Government

Sites sponsored by branches, bureaus, or agencies of any level of government, except for the armed forces.

• Military

Sites sponsored by branches or agencies of the armed services.

• Political Organizations

Sites sponsored by or providing information about political parties and interest groups focused on elections or legislation.

Health

Sites that provide information or advice on personal health or medical services, procedures, or devices, but not drugs. Includes self-help groups.

Illegal or Questionable

Sites that provide instruction in or promote nonviolent crime or unethical or dishonest behavior or the avoidance of prosecution.

Information Technology

Sites sponsored by or providing information about computers, software, the Internet, and related business firms, including sites supporting the sale of hardware, software, peripherals, and services.

• Computer Security

Sites that provide information about or free downloadable tools for computer security.

• Hacking

Sites that provide information about or promote illegal or questionable access to or use of computer or communication equipment, software, or databases.

• Proxy Avoidance

Sites that provide information about how to bypass proxy server features or to gain access to URLs in any way that bypasses the proxy server.

• Search Engines and Portals

Sites that support searching the Web, news groups, or indices or directories thereof.

• URL Translation Sites

Sites that offer online translation of URLs. These sites access the URL to be translated in a way that bypasses the proxy server, potentially allowing unauthorized access.

• Web & Email Spam

Sites whose links are sent in unsolicited commercial email, either as part of campaigns to promote products or services, or to entice readers to click through to surveys or similar sites. Also included are sites that display comment spam.

• Web Collaboration

Sites that provide virtual workspace for purposes of collaboration and conferencing, which may include sites that enable authorized access to a computer or network from a remote location

• Web Hosting

Sites of organizations that provide hosting services, or top-level domain pages of Web communities.

Internet Communication

Parent category that contains the categories:

• Web Chat

Sites that host Web chat services or that support or provide information about chat via HTTP or IRC.

• General Email

Sites that provide email services open to general use.

• Organizational Email

login sites for corporate or institutional email systems.

• Text and Media Messaging

Sites that enable the sending of messages and other content via SMS, EMS, MMS, or similar protocols.

Job Search

Sites that offer information about or support the seeking of employment or employees.

Militancy and Extremist

Sites that offer information about or promote or are sponsored by groups advocating antigovernment beliefs or action.

Miscellaneous

Parent category that contains the categories:

• Content Delivery Networks

Commercial hosts that deliver content to subscribing Web sites.

• Dynamic Content

URLs that are generated dynamically by a Web server.

• File Download Servers

Web servers whose primary function is to deliver files for download.

• Image Servers

Web servers whose primary function is to deliver images.

• Images (Media)

URLs ending with image filenames.

• Network Errors

URLs with hosts that do not resolve to IP addresses.

• Private IP Addresses

IP addresses defined in RFC 1918, 'Address Allocation for Private Intranets.'

• Uncategorized

Sites not categorized in the Websense Master Database.

News and Media

Sites that offer current news and opinion, including those sponsored by newspapers, general-circulation magazines, or other media.

• Alternative Journals

Online equivalents to supermarket tabloids and other fringe publications.

Parked Domain

Sites that are expired, offered for sale, or known to display targeted links, advertisements.

Productivity

Parent category that contains the categories:

• Attractive Nuisance

Custom: Sites with no educational application that pose a distraction for students.

• Advertisements

Sites that provide advertising graphics or other ad content files.

• Freeware and Software Download

Sites whose primary function is to provide freeware and software downloads.

• Instant Messaging

Sites that enable instant messaging.

• Message Boards and Forums

Sites that host message boards, bulletin boards, and other unaffiliated discussion forums.

• Online Brokerage and Trading

Sites that support active trading of securities and management of investments.

• Pay-to-Surf

Sites that reward users for Internet activity such as viewing Web Sites, advertisements, or email.

Racism and Hate

Sites that promote the identification of racial groups, the denigration or subjection of groups, or the superiority of any group.

Religion

Parent category that contains the categories:

• Non-Traditional Religions and Occult and Folklore

Sites that provide information about or promote religions not specified in Traditional Religions or other unconventional, cultic, or folkloric beliefs and practices.

• Traditional Religions

Sites that provide information about or promote Bahai, Buddhism, Christian Science, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Mormonism, Shinto, and Sikhism, as well as atheism.

Shopping

Sites that support the online purchase of consumer goods and services except: sexual materials, lingerie, swimwear, investments, medications, educational materials, computer software or hardware, alcohol, tobacco, travel, vehicles and parts, weapons.

• Internet Auctions

Sites that support the offering and purchasing of goods between individuals.

• Real Estate

Sites that provide information about renting, buying, selling, or financing residential real estate.

Social Organizations

Parent category that contains the categories:

• Professional and Worker Organizations

Sites sponsored by or that support or offer information about organizations devoted to professional advancement or workers' interests.

• Service and Philanthropic Organizations

Sites sponsored by or that support or offer information about organizations devoted to doing good as their primary activity.

• Social and Affiliation Organizations

Sites sponsored by or that support or offer information about organizations devoted chiefly to socializing or common interests other than philanthropy or professional advancement.

Security

These additional categories allow organizations to develop policies to block access to sites associated with spyware, phishing, keylogging, and malicious mobile code.

• Botnets

sites that host the command-and-control centers for networks of bots that have been infiltrated into users' computers. Excludes Web crawlers.

• Keyloggers

Sites or pages that download programs that run in the background recording all keystrokes, and which may also send those keystrokes (potentially including passwords or confidential information) to an external party.

• Malicious Embedded Link

Sites that are infected with a malicious link.

• Malicious Embedded iFrame

Sites that are infected with a malicious iframe.

• Malicious Web sites

Sites that contain code that may intentionally modify end-user systems without their consent and cause harm.

• Phishing and Other Frauds

Sites that counterfeit legitimate business sites for the purpose of eliciting financial or other private information from users.

• Potentially Unwanted Software

Sites that use technologies that alter the operation of the user's hardware, software, or network in ways that diminish control over the user experience, privacy, or the collection and distribution of personal information.

• Spyware

Sites or pages that download software that, without the user's knowledge, generate HTTP traffic (other than simple user identification and validation).

• Suspicious Embedded Link

Sites suspected of being infected with a malicious link.

Service and Philanthropic Organizations

Sites sponsored by or that support or offer information about organizations devoted to doing good as their primary activity.

Social and Affiliation Organizations

Sites sponsored by or that support or offer information about organizations devoted chiefly to socializing or common interests other than philanthropy or professional advancement.

Society and Lifestyles

Sites that provide information about matters of daily life, excluding entertainment, health, hobbies, jobs, sex, and sports.

• Alcohol and Tobacco

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

• Blogs and Personal Sites

Sites that host blogs and personal sites.

• Gay or Lesbian or Bisexual Interest

Sites that provide information about or cater to gay, lesbian, or bisexual lifestyles, but excluding those that are sexually or issue-oriented.

• Hobbies

Sites that provide information about or promote private and largely sedentary pastimes, but not electronic, video, or online games.

• Personals and Dating

Sites that assist users in establishing interpersonal relationships, excluding those intended to arrange for sexual encounters.

• Restaurants and Dining

Sites that list, review, advertise, or promote food, dining, or catering services.

• Social Networking

Sites of web communities that provide users with means for expression and interaction.

Special Events

Sites devoted to a current event that requires separate categorization.

Sites that provide information about or promote sports, active games, and recreation.

• Sport Hunting and Gun Clubs

Sites that provide information about or directories of gun clubs and similar groups, including war-game and paintball facilities.

Tasteless

Sites with content that is gratuitously offensive or shocking, but not violent or frightening. Includes sites devoted in part or whole to scatology and similar topics or to improper language, humor, or behavior.

Travel

Sites that provide information about or promote travel-related services and destinations.

User-Defined

User-defined category.

Vehicles

Sites that provide information about or promote vehicles, including those that support online purchase of vehicles or parts.

Violence

Sites that feature or promote violence or bodily harm, including self-inflicted harm; or that gratuitously display images of death, gore, or injury; or that feature images or descriptions that are grotesque or frightening and of no redeeming value.

Weapons

Sites that provide information about, promote, or support the sale of weapons and related items.