URL categories
URLs are grouped into the following categories.
- Abortion
This category contains websites that deal with abortion.
- Alcohol
Includes websites that deal with alcohol as a pleasurable activity (for example wine, beer, liquor, and breweries) and the producers of alcoholic beverages.
- Anonymization Services
Includes websites that allow the user to surf anonymously.
- Architecture / Construction / Furniture
This category contains websites about subjects such as architects, architecture, contractors, construction, furniture, interior design, and home improvement.
- Arts / Museums / Theaters
Includes websites from the area of arts, theaters, museums, monuments, and exhibitions.
- Auctions / Classified Ads
Includes auction sites, auction houses, marketplaces, and classified ads.
- Banking
This category contains websites such as bank offices, credit unions, online banking.
- Banner Advertisements
Includes websites for ad-serving services, ad servers, and pay-to-surf services.
- Blogs/ Bulletin Boards
This category contains newsgroups, bulletin boards, blogs, and comments. Dating sites, Social Networking sites and Business Networking sites are not listed here but in their own categories.
- Botnet Command and Control Server
This category contains IP addresses that host a botnet command and control server.
- Brokers / Stock Exchange
Includes websites about stock, options, and futures brokerage / trading and exchange rates.
- Business Networking
This category contains web portals that provide a virtual community to cultivate business contacts.
- Chat
This category contains websites with chat rooms and online messengers. Instant Messaging sites are no listed here but in their own category.
- Cinema/ Television
Includes websites in the area of cinema, television, program information, video on demand, movie rental services, and websites that inform about actors. Social Media sites are not listed here but in their own category.
- Cities / Regions / Countries
Includes websites of municipalities, countries, and online mapping services.
- Cloud
This category contains websites that provide cloud services. This category includes infrastructure as a service, such as web hoster. Furthermore, platform as a service. Moreover, software as a service, for example social networks, social media, web storage, and WebMail.
- Communication Services
Includes websites such as web hosting and Internet Service Providers.
- Computer Crime / Hacking
Includes manuals for malware programming, credit card misuse, and the illegal manipulation of electronic devices, data networks, and software.
- Communication Services
Includes websites such as web hosting and Internet Service Providers.
- Computer Games
Websites of the computer and video game industry, online gaming zones, or websites about related topics.
- Cryptocurrency Mining
This category contains websites that are involved in cryptocurrency mining, for example, mining pools and websites that run cryptocurrency mining scripts.
- Dating
This category contains websites that allow users to meet online and possibly develop a romantic or sexual relationship and escort services. Social Networking sites or Business Networking sites are not listed here but in their own categories.
- Digital Postcards
Includes websites that allow people to send digital postcards.
- Education
Includes e-learning websites, dictionaries, encyclopedias, scientific literature, and educational institutions such as universities, colleges, schools, kindergartens.
- Environment / Climate / Pets
This category contains websites on subjects such as weather, climate, pets, national parks, gardening, and environment protection.
- Erotic / Sex
Includes websites that contain erotic photography and erotic material, as can be found on television or obtained free of charge from magazines. Sex toys are also in this category. Sexually explicit activities are not listed here.
- Fashion / Cosmetics / Jewelry
This category contains websites in the area of fashion, cosmetics, jewelry, perfume, fashion models, and model agencies.
- Financial Services / Insurance / Real Estate
This category contains websites about real estate, insurance, and financial services such as construction financing, loans, credit cards.
- Gambling / Lottery
Includes lottery organizations, casinos, and betting agencies.
- General Business
This category includes websites of industry, business, economy, and supply of services.
- Governmental Organizations
Includes websites with content for which governmental organizations are responsible (for example, Government branches or agencies, Police Departments, Fire Departments) and international governmental organizations such as the United Nations or the European Union.
- Health
This category contains websites about physical and mental health, diseases, pharmaceuticals, hospitals, doctors, drugstores, nursing, and elder care.
- Humor / Cartoons
This category contains sites with humorous content such as comedians, jokes, comics, cartoons.
- Illegal Activities
This category includes activities that are illegal according to German law, such as manuals for bomb building or murder, instructions for illegal activities, child pornography.
- Illegal Drugs
This category contains websites that glorify the abuse of drugs and websites about utilities for drug use.
- Infrastructure as a Service
This category lists providers of physical or virtual hardware that is delivered as a service in the cloud, such as Windows machines on IBM Cloud or Amazon EC2.
- Instant Messaging
This category lists IPs of malicious websites or malware-hosting websites. This category contains websites that enable users to communicate via Instant Messaging such as ICQ, MSN, AIM, Skype, GTalk, Jabber, Y!M, and myspace.
- IT Security / IT Information
This category contains websites that inform people about security, privacy, and data protection.
- Job Search
Includes websites within the area of job offerings, job searches, job agencies, labor exchanges, and temporary work.
- Literature / Books
This category contains literature such as novels, poems, cooking books and recipes, advisories.
- Malware
This category contains websites that install data-transmitting programs without the user's knowledge.
- Mobile Telephony
Includes websites of mobile phone operators and manufacturers, mobile phone accessories, and websites that enable users to send text messages (SMS).
- Music / Radio Broadcast
Includes websites from radio stations, online radio, news and talk radio, radio hosts, audio downloads, audio streams, home pages of bands, record labels, and music publishers. Social Media sites are not listed here but in their own category.
- News / Magazines
This category contains websites with news, headlines, and magazines.
- Non-Governmental Organizations
Includes the websites of non-governmental organizations such as clubs, communities, non-profit organizations, and labor unions.
- Personal websites
This category contains websites with personal content. Dating sites, Social Networking sites and Business Networking sites are not listed here but in their own categories.
- Phishing URLs
This category includes websites that are contained in phishing emails.
- Platform as a Service
This category lists providers who deliver computing platforms and solution stacks as a service in the cloud, such as IBM Bluemix or Microsoft Azure.
- Political Extreme / Hate / Discrimination
Contains websites of politically extreme groups racism, sexism, suppression of minorities and extremists.
- Political Parties
This category contains websites of political parties and politicians.
- Pornography
Includes websites that contain the depiction of sexually explicit activities and erotic content unsuitable to persons under the age of 18.
- Recreational Facilities / Theme Parks
This category contains websites about organizations for recreational activities, for example public swimming pools, zoos, fairs, and amusement parks.
- Religion
Includes websites with religious content, information about the five main religions, and religious communities that have emerged out of these religions.
- Restaurants / Entertainment Venues
This category contains websites about bars, discos, music festivals, restaurants, and fast food restaurants.
- Search Engines / Web Catalogs / Portals
This category contains search engines, web catalogs, and web portals. Dating sites, Social Networking sites and Business Networking sites are not listed here but in their own categories.
- Sects
This category contains sites about sects, cults, occultism, Satanism, and so on.
- Self-Help / Addiction
This category contains websites from self-help groups, marriage counseling, and help for addiction problems.
- Shopping
Includes websites of retailers and wholesalers, sites that offer price comparisons, and online shops.
- Social Media
Includes websites that enable users to view, search for, rate and publish media files and streams.
- Social Networking
This category contains web portals that provide a virtual community to find and connect to people interested in a particular shared subject. The sites enable their members to publish profiles that include personal data / media and provide interpersonal communication channels. Business Networking sites are not listed here but in their own category.
- Software / Hardware
This category includes websites from the area of software, computer hardware, and other electronic components.
- Software as a Service
This category lists providers who offer software on demand in the cloud, such as IBM SmartCloud Docs, Salesforce, or Microsoft Office 365.
- Spam URLs
This category contains websites that are solicited in spam emails.
- Sports
This category contains websites about sports such as scores, results, clubs, teams, events, organizations.
- Suspicious
This category contains potentially malicious domains that are identified by analyzing DNS traffic.
- Swimwear / Lingerie
Includes websites that contain nudity, but with no sexual references. Includes bikini, lingerie, and nudity.
- Tobacco
Includes websites that deal with tobacco as a pleasurable activity (for example, cigarettes, cigars, pipes) and the producers of tobaccos.
- Toys
Websites that inform about scale models, board games, dolls, and so on, and websites of the toy industry.
- Travel
Includes websites about sights, travel agencies, hotels, resorts, motels, airlines, airports, railways, car rental agencies, and tourist information.
- Vehicles
This category contains websites about subjects such as automobiles, car-tuning, car exhibitions, motorbikes, airplanes, ships, bikes, and railways.
- Violence / Extreme
Includes websites that are normally assigned to other categories, but are extreme in their content (for example, violence).
- Warez / Software Piracy
This category contains websites that enable the unauthorized use of copyright protected material such as software, movies, and music.
- Weapons / Military
This category contains websites from military organizations / companies and sites about weapons of any type.
- Website Translation
This category contains websites that enable the translation of parts or the entire content of a website into another language.
- Web Storage
This category includes websites that offer file system-like services to share or backup files, often combined with user definable access rights.
- WebMail / Unified Messaging
This category contains websites from the area of web-Personal Information Management (web-PIM) for example, email, calendar, tasks, fax, voicemail.