Norton Family Website categories

Abortion

Websites that provide information about or arguments in favor of or against abortion; describe abortion procedures; offer help in obtaining or avoiding abortions; or provide testimonials on the physical, social, mental, moral, or emotional effects, or the lack thereof, of abortion.

Advertising

Websites that display online advertising content. Individual advertisements can range from legitimate business ads to ads of an offensive nature.

Alcohol

Websites that promote or offer for sale alcoholic beverages or the means to create them; supply recipes or paraphernalia; or glorify, tout, or otherwise encourage alcohol consumption or intoxication.

Art & Entertainment and Music

Websites that provide entertainment value for the user or refer to subjects of an aesthetic nature. These sites may include historical or contemporary art but not nude art. This category also includes Internet radio sites.

Automotive

Websites that sell, display, advocate, review, or describe the automotive market or cars.

Business

Websites that provide information on business and financial markets.

Computer hacking

Websites that promote or provide the means to practice illegal or unauthorized acts using computer-programming skills.

Crime

Websites that feature or promote criminal skills, provide instruction for threatening or violating the security of property or the privacy of people, or describe how to avoid complying with legally mandated duties and obligations.

Discussion and Online Interaction

Websites that provide a platform for users to discuss, compare, and debate different topics such as technology, games, sports, fashion, and politics.

Drugs

Websites that promote, offer, sell, supply, encourage, or otherwise advocate the recreational or illegal use, cultivation, manufacture, or distribution of drugs, pharmaceuticals, intoxicating plants or chemicals, and their related paraphernalia.

Email, Chat & Messaging

Websites that provide free, web-based email services are accessible through any Internet browser.

Family & Parenting

Websites that provide information, resources, and support related to raising children, family relationships, and related topics like pregnancy, child development, and parenting advice.

File Sharing

Websites that provide or promote file-sharing applications.

Gambling

Websites on which users can place bets or participate in online betting pools (including lotteries); obtain information, assistance, or recommendations for placing a bet; or receive instructions, assistance, or training on participating in games of chance.

Gaming

Websites that provide access to online games include opportunities to play against other individuals online. These sites do not support or encourage betting on the games.

General

Websites that display general-interest topics and may represent a gateway to a broad array of resources and services. May also include sites that have dynamically changing content with the possibility to either generate, display, or offer links to content that is inappropriate for children.

Hate

Websites that advocate hostility or aggression toward an individual or group based on race, religion, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, or other involuntary characteristics. Sites that denigrate others or justify inequality based on those characteristics.

Health & Fitness

Websites that relate to the general category of human health. This category does not include sexual health topics, which are categorized under Sexual Education.

Hobbies & Interests

Websites dedicated to leisure activities, personal pursuits, and recreational interests, providing information, resources, and communities for enthusiasts to connect and share their passions.

Job Search

Websites dedicated to job searching, job listings, resume exchanges, and head-hunting.

Kids

Websites that provide a safe and interesting Internet experience for children less than 12 years of age.

Law, Government & Politics

Websites that deal with legal matters, government entities, organizations, or functions or support politics of any type.

Mature Content

Websites that contain sexually explicit information that is not of a medical or scientific nature. It also includes sites that contain nude art. Nude art consists of non-pornographic images that tastefully and artfully display the naked body. The main purpose of nude art sites should not be sexual arousal.

Military

Websites that are sponsored by armed services agencies or military organizations.

News, Weather & Information

Websites that provide news, opinion, and weather. These websites include those sponsored by print and visual media.

Personals

Websites that promote or provide the opportunity for individuals to establish or continue romantic or sexual relationships.

Pornography

Websites that contain sexually explicit material to arouse sexual or prurient interest.

Reference/Educational

Websites whose primary purpose is to provide educational enrichment.

Religion

Websites that are dedicated to or describe one or more religions.

Scam Sites

Websites designed to deceive users for fraudulent or malicious purposes, including stealing personal information, distributing malware, or conducting financial fraud by mimicking legitimate websites or offering misleading products/services.

Search

Websites that support searching the Web, newsgroups, or indices and directories thereof.

Shopping

Websites that provide the opportunity to purchase goods or materials online.

Social Networking

Websites that let users create and establish online relationships with other individuals on the Internet, including the following types of site:

• Blogs: Websites that serve as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual.

• Forums: Websites that provide a Web application that lets users participate in the discussion of numerous topics, often in conjunction with online communities.

• Hosting services: Websites that provide individuals and organizations with online systems for storing information, images, video, or any content accessible on the Web.

• Virtual communities: Websites that offer a variety of tools and mechanisms to enable a group of people to communicate and interact on the Internet.

Sports

Websites that are dedicated to professional and amateur sports and sporting events.

Technology

Websites that sell, display, advocate, review, or describe information about technological subjects.

Tobacco

Websites that encourage, promote, offer for sale, or otherwise encourage the consumption of tobacco.

Travel

Websites dedicated to personal travel planning, vacations, car rental, lodging, cruises, and tour groups.

Uncategorized

Thousands of new websites are created each day. These websites are analyzed and grouped into different categories. The uncategorized websites are the ones that have not been analyzed and categorized yet.

Violence

Websites that display graphic violence that dwells on the infliction of pain or injury. Sites that advocate or provide instructions for causing physical harm to people or property through the use of weapons, explosives, pranks, dismemberment, torture, massive blood and gore, sadism, and other types of excessive violence.

Weapons

Websites that sell, display, advocate, review, or describe weapons such as guns, knives, or martial arts devices, or provide information on their use, accessories, or other modifications.

Web Proxies

Websites that allow Internet content to be retrieved on behalf of a user with the intent of obscuring the user's identity from the content server or obscuring the source of the content from content-filtering software.