Webroot URL Categories and Description

This topic lists Webroot URL categories along with their descriptions.

Category Name	Description
Abortion	Abortion topics, either pro-life or pro-choice.
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.
Adult and Pornography	Sexually explicit material for the purpose of arousing a sexual or prurient interest. Adult products including sex toys, CD-ROMs, 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.
Alcohol and Tobacco	Sites that provide information on, promote, or support the sale of alcoholic beverages or tobacco products and associated paraphernalia.
Auctions	Sites that support the offering and purchasing of goods between individuals as their main purpose. Does not include classified advertisements.
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.
Business and Economy	Business firms, corporate websites , business information, economics, marketing, management, and entrepreneurship.
Cheating	Sites that support cheating and contain such materials, including free essays, exam copies, plagiarism, etc.
Computer and Internet Info	General computer and Internet sites, technical information. SaaS sites and other URLs that deliver internet services.
Computer and Internet Security	Computer/Internet security, security discussion groups.
Confirmed SPAM Sources
Content Delivery Networks	Delivery of content and data for third parties, including ads, media, files, images, and video.
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.
Dating	Dating websites focused on establishing personal relationships.
Dead Sites	These are dead sites that do not respond to HTTP queries. Policy engines should usually treat these as 'Uncategorized' sites.
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.
Educational Institutions	Pre-school, elementary, secondary, high school, college, university, and vocational school and other educational content and information,including enrollment, tuition, and syllabus.
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.).
Fashion and Beauty	Fashion or glamour magazines, beauty, clothes, cosmetics, style.
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.
Food and Dining
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.
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.
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.
Gross	Vomit and other bodily functions, bloody clothing, etc.
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.
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.
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.
Home and Garden	Home issues and products, including maintenance, home safety, decor, cooking, gardening, home electronics, design, etc.
Hunting and Fishing	Sport hunting, gun clubs, and fishing.
Illegal	Criminal activity, how not to get caught, copyright and intellectual property violations, etc.
Image and Video Search	Photo and image searches, online photo albums/digital photo exchange, image hosting.
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.
Internet Communications	Internet telephony, messaging, VoIP services and related businesses.
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.
Job Search	Assistance in finding employment, and tools for locating prospective employers, or employers looking for employees.
Keyloggers and Monitoring	Downloads and discussion of software agents that track a user's keystrokes or monitor their web surfing habits.
Kids	Sites designed specifically for children and teenagers.
Legal	Legal websites, law firms, discussions and analysis of legal issues.
Local Information	City guides and tourist information, including restaurants, area/regional information, and local points of interest.
Malware Sites	Malicious content including executables, drive-by infection sites, malicious scripts, viruses, trojans, and code.
Marijuana	Marijuana use, cultivation, history, culture, legal issues.
Military	Information on military branches, armed services, and military history.
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.
Music	Music sales, distribution, streaming, information on musical groups and performances, lyrics, and the music business.
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
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.
Online Greeting Cards	Online Greeting card sites.
Open HTTP Proxies	Internet-hosted proxies that are available to anyone. There is no direct equivalent in heritage web.
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.
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.
Peer to Peer	Peer to peer clients and access. Includes torrents, music download programs.
Personal sites and Blogs	Personal websites posted by individuals or groups, as well as blogs.
Personal Storage	Online storage and posting of files, music, pictures, and other data.
Philosophy and Political Advocacy	Politics, philosophy, discussions, promotion of a particular viewpoint or stance in order to further a cause.
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.
Private IP Addresses and URLs
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.
Questionable	Tasteless humor, 'get rich quick' sites, and sites that manipulate the browser user experience or client in some unusual, unexpected, or suspicious manner.
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.
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.
Reference and Research	Personal, professional, or educational reference material, including online dictionaries, maps, census, almanacs, library catalogs, genealogy, and scientific information.
Religion	Conventional or unconventional religious or quasi-religious subjects, as well as churches, synagogues, or other houses of worship.
Search Engines	Search interfaces using key words or phrases. Returned results may include text, websites, images, videos, and files.
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.
Shareware and Freeware	Software, screen savers, icons, wallpapers, utilities, ringtones. Includes downloads that request a donation, and open source projects.
Shopping	Department stores, retail stores, company catalogs and other sites that allow online consumer or business shopping and the purchase of goods and services.
Social Networking	These are 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.
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.
SPAM URLs	URLs contained in SPAM.
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.
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 pop-ups and programs that may be installed on a user's computer.
Streaming Media	Sales, delivery, or streaming of audio or video content, including sites that provide downloads for such viewers.
Swimsuits and Intimate Apparel	Swimsuits, intimate apparel or other types of suggestive clothing.
Training and Tools	Distance education and trade schools, online courses, vocational training, software training, skills training.
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.
Travel	Airlines and flight booking agencies. Travel planning, reservations, vehicle rentals, descriptions of travel destinations, or promotions for hotels or casinos. Car rentals.
Unconfirmed SPAM Sources	URLs contained in SPAM.
Violence	Sites that advocate violence, depictions, and methods, including game/comic violence and suicide.
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.
Web Advertisements	Advertisements, media, content, and banners.
Web Based Email	Sites offering web based email and email clients.
Web Hosting	Free or paid hosting services for web pages and information concerning their development, publication and promotion.