Legacy DNS Content Category Definitions

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Talos-based Content Categories

To align with Cisco Talos' Intelligence Categories, Umbrella is updating and migrating its content categories. The descriptions and definitions listed here for Umbrella's legacy pre Talos-based content categories. For information about Umbrella's Talos-based content categories, see DNS Content Categories.

Table of Contents

• Levels of Categorization
• High, Moderate, and Low Category Levels
• Custom Category Level
• Content Categories Definitions

Levels of Categorization

When adding a policy and determining which categories of content to block, there are several levels of categorization to choose from: High, Moderate, Low, and Custom. Categories included in the High, Moderate, and Low levels are predetermined and cannot be changed. Custom includes all levels—High, Moderate, and Low—as well as categories unique to Custom. With Custom, you can select categories and create your own custom list of categories to block.   

High, Moderate, and Low Category Levels

High—Blocks adult-related status, illegal activity, social networking, video sharing site, and general time-wasters. Includes all Moderate and Low content categories. Note that not all content categories are listed under High. There is a sub-listing of content categories that are only available to Custom.
Moderate—Blocks all adult-related websites and illegal activity.
Low—Blocks pornography and anonymous web surfing.
Custom—For the creation of a custom grouping. Lists all content categories.

The High, Moderate, and Low levels propagate upward. Low categories are included with Moderate and both Moderate and Low category presets are included in High. 

Custom Category Level

Custom includes all categories included with the High setting as well as the following categories that are unique to Custom. These Custom settings are not propagated upward to any other setting.

Content Categories Definitions

• Academic Fraud—Sites that promote educational fraud, including but not limited to plagiarism and cheating.
• Adult Themes—Sites that are adult in nature and are not defined in other rating categories.
  Note: Select this category only if you want to be very restrictive on your network.
• Adware—Sites that distribute applications that display advertisements without the user's knowledge or choice. It does NOT include sites that serve to advertise.
• Alcohol—Sites about alcohol use, commercial and otherwise.
• Anime/Manga/Webcomic—Sites that host online comics, cartoons, and graphic novels.
• 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.
• Astrology—Astrology; horoscope; fortune-telling; numerology; psychic advice; tarot.
• Auctions—Sites for buying and selling via auction.
• Automotive—Sites about automobiles, including manufacturers, news, reviews, and hobbyist information.
• Blogs—Sites that are personal or group journals, diaries or publications.
• Business Services—Sites for corporations and businesses of all sizes, especially company websites.
• Chat—Sites where you can chat in real-time with groups of people. Includes IRC and video chat sites.
• Classifieds—Sites for buying and selling (or bartering) goods and services. Includes sites with real estate and housing listings.
• Computer Security—Offering security products and services for corporate and home users.
• Dating—Sites for meeting other people.
• Digital Postcards—Dating, online personals, matrimonial agencies.
• Dining and Drinking—Eating and drinking establishments; restaurants, bars, taverns, and pubs; restaurant guides and reviews.
• DIY Projects—Guidance and information to create, improve, modify, decorate and repair something without the aid of experts or professionals.
• Drugs—Sites about illegal or recreational drug use.
• 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.
• Ecommerce/Shopping—Sites that are online stores for products and services.
• Educational Institutions—Sites for schools, covering all age levels and types.
• 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.
• File Storage—Sites that offer space for hosting, sharing and backup of digital files.
• File Transfer Services—File transfer services with the primary purpose of providing download services and hosted file sharing.
• Financial Institutions—Sites for banks, brokerages, trusts, and other financial organizations.
• Forums/Message Boards—Sites with discussions, including bulletin boards, message boards, and forums.
• Freeware and Shareware—Providing downloads of free and shareware software.
• Gambling—Sites that offer gambling or information about gambling.
• Games—Sites that offer gameplay and information about games (news, tips, cheat codes).
• German Youth Protection—Content deemed harmful to minors. This category helps prevent viewing of youth-endangering content in Germany. Block pages for this category will include German text. This list is not controlled by Umbrella and is created to be controlled by the BPjM (Federal Review Board for Media Harmful to Minors) to be compliant with German Law. For more information, see http://www.bundespruefstelle.de/bpjm/Service/english.html.
  Note: We do not guarantee compliance with German law.
• Government—Sites operated by government agencies, including city, state, regional, county and federal levels. Also includes .mil domains.
• Hacking—Discussing ways to bypass the security of websites, software, and computers.
• Hate/Discrimination—Sites that promote intolerance based on gender, age, race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation or other group identities.
• Health and Fitness—Sites that offer information about health care and health services. Includes fitness related sites and information about health and fitness.
• Humor—Sites that are intended to be funny or humorous.
• Hunting—Professional or sports 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 as well as explaining ways to commit them.
• 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.
• Infrastructure—Content delivery infrastructure and dynamically generated content; websites that cannot be classified more specifically because they are secured or otherwise difficult to classify.
• Instant Messaging—Sites that offer access or software to communicate in real-time with other individuals.
• Internet Telephony—Telephonic services using the internet.
• Internet Watch Foundation (IWF)—Sites that contain child sexual abuse content. For more information about this category, see the Internet Watch Foundation.
• IT-ADM—Sites that offer gambling or information about gambling and tobacco. For more information, see the Italian Nacional Agency.
• IT-AGCOM—Sites that are deemed to infringe on intellectual property. For more information, see the Italian National Agency.
• Jobs/Employment—Sites that offer job listings, resume services, interview coaching, and similar employment-related services.
• Lingerie/Bikini—Sites displaying or dedicated to lingerie/bikini that could be considered adult-only.
• Lotteries—Sweepstakes, contests, and state-sponsored lotteries.
• Military—Military, such as the armed forces, military bases, military organizations, anti-terrorism.
• Mobile Phones—Short Message Services (SMS); ringtones and mobile phone downloads. Cellular carrier websites are included in the Business and Industry category.
• Movies—Sites that promote movies or offer movie watching online.
• Music—Sites about music, including news, band and fan information.
• 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.
• News/Media—Sites that offer news and information, including newspapers, broadcasters, and other publishers.
• Non-Profits—Sites for non-profit or charity organizations and services.
• Nudity—Sites that provide images or representations of nudity.
• Online Meetings—Online meetings, desktop sharing, remote access, and other tools that facilitate multi-location collaboration.
• 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.
• Organization Email—Websites used to access business email (often via Outlook Web Access).
• P2P/File Sharing—Sites that facilitate the sharing of digital files between individuals, especially through peer-to-peer software, including torrent sites.
• Paranormal—UFOs, ghosts, cryptid, telekinesis, urban legends, and myths.
• Parked Domains—Sites that are placeholders "parked" for future use. Current uses may include single-page advertising sites.
• Personal Sites—Websites about and from private individuals; personal homepage servers; websites with personal contents; personal blogs with no particular theme.
• Personal VPN—Virtual private network (VPN) sites or tools that are typically for personal use and may or may not be approved for corporate usage.
• Photo Sharing—Sites for sharing photographs, as individual images, galleries, and albums.
• Podcasts—Sites that offer podcasts, digital media files distributed over the Internet, often using syndication feeds, for playback on portable media players and personal computers. Both audio and video podcasts are included.
• Politics—Sites about politics, politicians, political parties and organizations. Government sites are separate.
• Pornography—Anything relating to pornography, including mild depiction, soft pornography or hard-core pornography.
• Portals—Sites that offer gateways to the internet as a whole, often including bundled services on their own site.
• Professional Networking—Social networking for the purpose of career or professional development. See also Social Networking.
• Proxy/Anonymizer—Sites providing proxy bypass information or services. Blocks DoH providers so that the browser fails to resolve the hostname of the DoH server, and reverts to standard system DNS. Also, sites that allow the user to surf the net anonymously, including sites that allow the user to send anonymous emails.
• Radio—Sites that offer online radio listening or promote radio stations.
• 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.
• Religious—Sites about religion, religious teachings and groups, and spirituality.
• Research/Reference—Sites such as encyclopedias, dictionaries as well as other research-related resources.
• SaaS and B2B—Web portals for online business services; online meetings.
• Safe for Kids—Directed at, and specifically for, young children.
• Search Engines—Sites that offer result listings based on keywords.
• Sex Education—Factual websites dealing with sex; sexual health; contraception; pregnancy.
• Sexuality—Sites that provide information, images or implications of bondage, sadism, masochism, fetish, beating, body piercing or self-mutilation. This category is not intended for LGBT-related sites that do not fall under the aforementioned criteria.
• Science and Technology—Science and technology, such as aerospace, electronics, engineering, mathematics, and other similar subjects; space exploration; meteorology; geography; environment; energy (fossil, nuclear, renewable); communications (telephones, telecommunications).
• Social Networking—Sites that promote interaction and networking between people.
• Social Science—Sciences and history related to society; archaeology; anthropology; cultural studies; history; linguistics; geography; philosophy; psychology; women's studies.
• Society and Culture—Family and relationships; ethnicity; social organizations; genealogy; seniors; child-care.
• Software/Technology—Sites about computing, hardware, and technology, including news, information, code and vendor information.
• Software Updates—Websites that host updates for software packages.
• Sports—Sites about sports of all kinds, from professional to amateur, from news to league information and schedules. Includes martial arts and MMA related sites.
• Tasteless—Sites that contain information on such subjects as mutilation, torture, horror, or the grotesque. Includes Pro-Anorexia and Pro-Suicide related sites.
• Television—Sites that promote television shows or offer television watching online.
• Terrorism—Sites that promote terrorism or are linked with terrorist organizations.
• Tobacco—Sites about tobacco use and related products, commercial and otherwise.
• Travel—Sites with travel information and services, including reservations for airlines, cars, hotels, vacations, and trips.
• URL Shortener—An online application or service that converts a regular URL into a condensed format.
• Video Sharing—Sites for sharing video content.
• Visual Search Engines—Sites for searching for images based on keywords.
• Weapons—Sites about weapons, commercial and otherwise.
• Web Page Translation—Translation of web pages between languages.
• Web Hosting—Website hosting; bandwidth services.
• Web Spam—Redirect targets containing unwanted sweepstakes/survey/advertisements for free merchandise, pharmaceutical spam or rolex distributions.
• Webmail—Sites that offer the ability to send or receive an email.

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