About Predefined Categories
About Predefined Categories
The application and web categories shown in the UI are explained below.
| Category | Description | Sample URLs |
|---|---|---|
| Abortion | Web pages that discuss abortion from a historical, medical, legal, or other not overtly biased point of view. Examples are abortion pill, pregnancy termination, fetal abortion etc. | abortion.com, gynpages.com, abortionfacts.com, prochoice.org |
| Adult Content – Other | Sites with adult content excluding pornography. Examples are sex, nudity, adult shopping, etc. | flirtic.rs, mature-sexcontacts.com, frankenladies. de |
| Adult Content – Pornography | Pornography sites are the ones which allow the portrayal of sexual subject matter . | xvideos.com, youporn.com, chaturbate.com |
| Advocacy Groups & Trade Associations | Sites that provide information on Industry trade groups, lobbyists, unions, special interest groups and professional organizations. | iso.org, hrw.org, ori.org |
| Aggressive | Sites that Includes militancy, torture, crime-scene photos, and descriptions or pictures of a violent, bloody or gory nature. Also includes sites that promote violence and sedition. Examples are mutilation, crime scene, massacre etc. | murders.ru, malaprensa.com, alombredelespoir. org |
| Alcohol | Web pages that show alcoholic drinks and beers. Examples are whiskey, vodka, ale etc. | thewinecellarinsider.com, johnniewalker.com, carabal.es |
| App Admin Console | Web pages that allow administrative actions to be performed by the app administrator, e.g., anubhavg.goskope.com. | NULL |
| Application Suite | Application Suite indicates that applications listed under this category have multiple products from their respective companies in various other categories. | gsuite.google.com, atlassian.net, axway.com |
| Arts | Sites that contain creative art judged solely for its intellectual or aesthetic components. | vangoghgallery.com, artble.com, vggallery.com |
| Auctions & Marketplaces | Sites that allow discussions or enable person-to-person selling or trading of goods and services through classified, online auctions. | ebay.com, trademe.co.nz, bidorbuy.co.za |
| Automotive | Sites that provide information about the automotive industry that connects vehicle shoppers with sellers. | ford.com, volvocars.com, mercedes-benz.com |
| Banking and Payments | Sites that allow customers to conduct financial transactions online through a bank or a payment service. | chase.com, hdfcbank.com, paypal.com |
| Business | Business sites that contain information on trade, purchase and sale of products or services. | pitneybowes.com, kiewit.com, unilever.com |
| Business Intelligence and Data Analytics | Business intelligence (BI) sites transform raw data into meaningful and useful information for business analysis purposes. BI technologies are capable of handling large amounts of unstructured data to help identify, develop, and create new strategic business opportunities. | kaggle.com, tensorflow.org, datasciencecentral. com |
| Business Process Management | Business process management (BPM) sites focus on improving corporate performance by managing and optimizing a company business processes. | foliometrics.co.uk, mackeyrms.com, qualtrics.com |
| Chat, IM & other communication | Web pages with real-time chat rooms and messaging allowing strangers and friends to chat in groups both in public and private chats. Includes Internet Relay Chat (IRC). Examples are chat room, group chat, irc etc. | whatsapp.com, hangouts.google.com, line.me |
| Child Abuse | Web pages that show the physical or sexual abuse of children. Examples are kiddie porn, pedophilia, child abuse, Pre Teen Hard Core etc. | NULL |
| Cloud Backup | Cloud backup applications address both enterprise and consumer backup needs for storing peripheral and server data in the cloud to prevent data loss in case of disk failures, data corruption or disasters. | druva.com, crashplan.com, jungledisk.com |
| Cloud Storage | Cloud storage services may be accessed through a co-located cloud compute service, a web service application programming interface(API) or by applications that utilize the API, such as cloud desktop storage, a cloud storage gateway or Web-based content management systems. | drive.google.com, box.com, dropbox.com |
| Collaboration | Sites where two or more organizations work together to realize shared goals. For example, an endeavour that is creative in nature by sharing knowledge, learning, and building consensus. | sharepoint.com, slack.com, zoom.us |
| Consumer | Consumer cloud sites incorporate on-premise storage, computing, and device hardware. All of these can now be delivered from remote elastic storage and devices, such as smartphones, notebooks, and PCs. | grammarly.com, smugmug.com, flickr.com |
| Content Management | Content management (CM) sites support the collection, managing, and publishing of information in any form or medium. Digital content may take the form of text (such as electronic documents), multimedia files (such as audio or video files), or any other file type. | cloudinary.com, clearvoice.com, drupal.org |
| Content Server | Sites that deliver content to third parties, such as advertisements, media, files, and image servers. Examples are web application acceleration, private / corporate server, and media server. | akamai.net, prod.mozaws.net, secure.adnxs.com |
| Criminal Activities | Sites that provide information on how to perpetrate illegal activities such as burglary, murder, bomb-making, lock picking, etc. Includes also information on how to perpetrate non-online scams and fraud and how to fake drug tests. Photos of illegal activities such as necrophilia may also have this category in addition to any other applicable categories such as Pornography. Examples are theft, zoophilia, bomb-making etc. | sosvox.org, uggsheepskinboots.us |
| Customer Relationship Management | Customer relationship management (CRM) sites provide a system for managing a companys interactions with current and future customers. It often involves sales, marketing, customer service, and technical support. | salesforce.com, pipedrive.com, insightly.com |
| Dating | Sites related to online dating, matchmaking, relationship advice, and personal ads. Examples are dating advice and blind dates. | match.com, tinder.com, cupid.com |
| Development Tools | Software development sites provide code repositories, review boards, branch management functions, bug tracking, flowcharts, and UI mockups. | developer.salesforce.co, visualstudio.microsoft. com, github.com |
| Drugs | Sites that endorse the use of illegal drugs, or the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs and inhalants. Also includes sites containing positive references to the culture of drug abuse or giving non-clinical descriptions or stories (including blogs) about getting high. | magicmushroom.com, buyecstasy.com, buy-magic- mushrooms.com |
| Dynamic DNS Domain | Dynamic DNS Domain sites provide a method of automatically updating a name server in the Domain Name System (DNS), often in real-time, with the active DDNS configuration of its configured host names, addresses or other information. | NULL |
| E-Commerce Tools | Sites that provide tools to create e-commerce sites for trading products or services using the internet, excluding the actual e-commerce site itself. | shopify.com, magento.com, bigcommerce.com, 3dcart.com |
| Education | Education sites provide information on teaching, training,, or research, and provides guidance on convenient and portable learning options. | cambridge.org, collegeboard.org, turnitin.com |
| Enterprise Resource Planning | Enterprise resource planning (ERP) sites provide business management software, usually a suite of integrated applications, that collect, store, manage and interpret data from many business activities, including product planning, cost, manufacturing or service delivery, marketing and sales, Inventory management, shipping, and payment. | omp.com, netsuite.com, acumatica.com |
| Entertainment | Sites related to movies, tv shows, music, the performing arts, celebrities, etc. | tmz.com, hollywoodreporter.com, cinemablend. com |
| Family & Parenting | Sites that teach parents how to deal with their kids. Examples are k6 parenting, parenting kinder to 6th grade, etc. | babycenter.com, parents.com, babynames.com |
| Fashion | Sites that discuss additional fashion elements, such as fashion models, agencies and others. Examples are modeling agency, fashion modeling, etc. | gap.com, hm.com, victoriassecret.com |
| File Converter | Sites that allow conversion of files from one type to another, such as documents (including PDF files), images, audio, video, etc. | pdf.online,freepdfconvert.com,onlineconvertfree. com |
| File Repositories | Sites with collections of downloadable software, downloadable applications etc. Also includes repositories of screen savers, wallpapers, web templates, ringtones, and any site with a collection of files. Excludes downloads of themes which fall to Hobbies-Themes. Examples are web templates, file collection, file repositories, etc. | thenounproject.com, shapes4free.com, softonic. com |
| File/Software Download Sites | Sites that host software on their own servers, so that its available for download 24/7. | NULL |
| Finance/Accounting | Accounting sites including financial accounting, management accounting, auditing, and tax accounting. This category excludes sites that allow online banking and payment services. | turbotax.com, deloitte.com |
| Financial Aid & Scholarships | Sites that assist debit loans, credit loans in case of job loss or unemployment. This category also includes sites that show relevant information on scholarships or grants for the jobless, laid-off workers or low-income employees, which can either be a partial or a full coverage. | cafam.com.co, mybenefitscalwin.org, needhelppayingbills.com |
| Financial News | Sites with news and articles on the aspects of finance. Examples are financial news, finance news etc. | marketwatch.com, finance.yahoo.com, investopedia.com |
| Food & Drink | Sites that contain food and drink specific supply chain information or preparation procedure. | benjerry.com, nestle.com, foodlion.com |
| Forums | Sites dedicated to forums, newsgroups, email archives, bulletin boards, and other community-driven content. | quora.com, stackoverflow.com, blackbaud.com |
| Gambling | Sites with games that involve winning or losing of money based on strategy and chance. Includes information, tips, strategies, and rules for gambling games. Examples are bookie, betting, lotto etc. | betfair.com, lotterypost.com, sportingbet.com |
| Games | Site with non-gambling games and sports. Examples are Board Games, GamesRoleplaying, GamesVideo and Computer Games. | gamespot.com, epicgames.com, playstation.com |
| Generative AI | Sites that use machine learning techniques to generate new data from existing data sets, including text, images, and videos. | chat.openai.com, jasper.ai, beautiful.ai |
| Government & Legal | Sites for legal entities made by the government to manage commercial activities on its behalf. These include enterprises or corporations owned by the government, but run by private individuals. This also includes sites that tackle issues and laws on legal aspects. | state.gov, europa.eu, whitehouse.gov |
| Health & Nutrition | Sites that discuss information, tips, guide and others related to health, wellness, eating healthy, and diet plans. | medtronic.com, uptodate.com, medline.com |
| Help Desk Management | Sites that provide help desk support to their customers through various channels, such as toll-free numbers, websites, instant messaging, or email. There are also in-house help desks designed to provide assistance to employees. | freshdesk.com, zendesk.com, happyfox.com |
| Hobbies & Interests | Sites related to activities done in free time and provide information on finding and starting new hobbies. | discoverahobby.com, eflorist.com, comofazerartesanatos.com.br |
| Home & Garden | Sites that provide information on the latest interior design ideas, beautiful lifestyle inspiration, and gardening. | garden.org, finegardening.com, casarte.com |
| HR | Human resource management (HRM, or simply HR) sites designed to maximize employee performance in service of their employers strategic objectives. | hirevue.com, wageworks.com, bamboohr.com |
| IaaS/PaaS | Application hosting providers, platform-as-a-service, virtual machine and bare metal services fall under this category. | aws.amazon.com, azure.microsoft.com, cloud. google.com |
| Identity and Access Management | Identity Access Management applications provide features such as single sign-on (SSO), password management, multi-factor authentication, etc. They enable enterprises to manage a unified list of users across multiple applications. | onelogin.com, auth0.com, okta.com |
| Insurance | Sites that offers any type of insurance, insurance company, or government insurance program from medicare to car insurance to life insurance. Examples are accident insurance, travel insurance, self insurance, etc. | usaa.com, progressive.com, statefarm.com |
| Internet Telephony | Sites that allow users to make calls via the web or to download software that allows users to make calls over the Internet. Also called Internet Telephony and Voice Over IP. | cox.com, ringcentral.com, grasshopper.com |
| Investors & Patents | Sites that include information on investment business that creates, incubates, and commercializes inventions. Examples are kick-starting, crowdfunding, patents on inventions, patent, patent registration, patented invention etc. | indiegogo.com, proactiveinvestors.com, apoia.se |
| IT Service/Application Management | Sites that provide IT service management and application management, and includes IT operations, app deployment, license management, app management, app maintenance and upgrading and app scenario testing. | freshservice.com, bettercloud.com, logicmonitor. com |
| Job Search/Careers | Job posting pages on company sites, job search sites, interview tips, job-related classifieds, temp work, contract work asked or offered, etc. Also includes sites that show information, tips, or guide on career advice. | careerbuilder.com, indeed.com, job.com |
| Kids | Sites for kids that provides online teaching games, printables, videos, etc. | scholastic.com, toysrus.com, lego.com |
| Knowledge Management | Knowledge management (KM) sites include capturing, developing, sharing, and effectively using organizational knowledge. | litmos.com, schoology.com, dominknow.com |
| Lifestyle | Sites with advertizing or products designed to appeal to a consumer by association with a desirable lifestyle. | accessconsciousness.com, marcus.co.uk, kak-bog. ru |
| Login Screens | Sites used to login to a wide variety of services where the actual service is not known, but could be any of several categories (like Yahoo and Google login pages). | 360yield.com, sso.godaddy.com, veriatocloud.com |
| Logistics | Logistics sites provide information about transferring products from producer to consumer, including storage, transport, transshipment, warehousing, material handling and packaging with associated exchange of information. | fedex.com, descartes.com, assetpanda.com |
| Marijuana | Sites that promote or sell marijuana products. Cannot be combined with drugs as it is legal in many states. | leafly.com, hightimes.com, cannabis.com |
| Marketing | Sites that target markets through market analysis and market segmentation, as well as understanding consumer behavior and providing superior customer value. | getresponse.com, hubspot.com, marketo.com |
| Military | Sites sponsored by or devoted to the armed forces. Includes Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force and Coast Guard websites | army.mil, af.mil, navy.mil |
| Miscellaneous | Sites that do not fit in any other category. | powned.it |
| Newly Observed Domain (NOD) | Domains observed as active in the last 30 days. Similar to NRDs, NODs might not necessarily be registered in last 30 days. Threat actors might register a domain and leave it dormant for a period of time to avoid NRD classification. Later, they can use the domain for malicious activities, such as malware hosting and phishing. | NULL |
| Newly Registered Domain (NRD) | Domains registered for the first time or changed ownership in the last 30 days. Threat actors like to use newly registered URLs for malevolent activities, such as malware hosting and phishing campaigns. | NULL |
| News & Media | Online (or offline) news sites covering news and events. Also includes collection of written articles that are printed in ink or distributed online, like magazines. | cnn.com, nytimes.com, washingtonpost.com, foxnews.com |
| No Content | Sites that don’t have any content on the entire site is categorized as No Content. | NULL |
| Nursing | Nursing sites that have Job vacancies, job descriptions, and other related information significant to Nursing. Examples are nursing jobs, nursing hirings etc. | nursingworld.org, nursingtimes.net, allnurses.com |
| Online Ads | Online ad site provide online marketing, Internet advertising, digital advertising or web advertising. Examples are online advertising, pay per click (ppc), cost per click (cpc) etc. | ads.mopub.com, ads.pubmatic.com, phoenixads. net |
| Parked Domains | Parked Domain is the registration of an Internet domain name without that domain being associated with any services, such as e-mail or a website. This may have been done to reserve the domain name for future development, and to protect against the possibility of cybersquatting. Examples are parked domain, for sale call domain owner, etc. | NULL |
| Pay To Surf | Sites that offer cash to users who install their software ads and track browsing habits, effectively allowing users to be paid to surf the web. | etherealglobal.systems, dimondrotator.com, adzseven.com |
| Peer-to-Peer (P2P) | Sites that provide peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing software. Note that this does not apply to online repositories of files for download over P2P, but only to the P2P software itself, and any company that provides that software. Examples are emule fileswire, file sharing software, frostwire etc. | thepiratebay.org, 1337x.tw, torlock.com |
| Personal Sites & Blogs | Blog sites are a platform for individuals to share news, opinions, and information about themselves in a date-stamped web log. Personal pages about an individual or that individuals family (also written in the first-person). | isuwannee.com, blogspot.com, googleblog.com |
| Pets | Sites that provide information and articles on domestic animals. Examples are cats, dogs, Veterinary Medicine. | petco.com, petfinder.com, petsmart.com |
| Philanthropic Organizations | Charities and other non-profit philanthropic organizations and foundations dedicated to altruistic activities intended to increase the quality of life for groups or individuals. Also includes web sites that rate and review charities or act as conduits for online donations to selected charities. Examples are charitable giving, fund raisers, disaster reliefs etc. | worldvision.org, unrefugees.org, redcross.org |
| Photo Sharing | Sites that host digital photographs and allow users to upload, search, and exchange photos and images online. Also includes galleries and albums of photos hosted on businesses or personal websites. Also includes online photo printing where photographs may be uploaded and ordered as prints. Examples are photo albums, photo gallery, photo sharing etc. | web.500px.com, snapfish.com, istockphoto.com |
| Piracy & Copyright Theft | Sites that provide access to illegally obtained files, such as pirated software (like warez), pirated movies, pirated music, etc. Also includes information or software available specifically for the purpose of using or stealing protected copyrighted materials without paying for them, for example, lists of software serial numbers, cracks, rippers etc. Examples are DVDRIP, DVDZ, illegal movie etc. | moviexk.net, gudangmovies.cc, tumejortorrent.site |
| Private IP address | Private IP addresses are those reserved for use internally in corporations or homes. Also includes link-local, self-assigned, Zero-configuration addresses. Examples are self-assigned IP, private IP, etc. | 10.0.0.0 – 10.255.255.255 (10.0.0.0/8), 172.16.0.0 – 172.31.255.255 (172.16.0.0/12), 192.168.0.0 – 192.168.255.255 (192.168.0.0/16), 169.254.0.0 – 169.254.255.255 (169.254.0.0/16) |
| Professional Networking | Social networking sites intended for professionals and business relationship building. These sites are generally more accepted in the workplace than standard social networking websites. Examples are professional networking, professional networking tool etc. | xing.com, linkedin.com, us.viadeo.com |
| Real Estate | Sites that provide information about buying and selling of homes and private estates. Also includes the sites that provide information about renting, leasing, buying, and selling of land and buildings. | zillow.com, realtor.com, sothebysrealty.com |
| Redirect | Sites that redirect to other pages or sites is in this Redirect category. | app.bit.ly, goo.gl/, slides.app.goo.gl/ |
| Religion | Information sites and articles on religions from around the world, including their beliefs, practices, rituals, creeds, ethics and history. | jw.org, biblegateway.com, biblehub.com |
| Remote Access | Sites that provide remote access to private computers or networks, internal network file shares, and internal web applications. Examples are VPN, SSL, etc. | teamviewer.com, remotepc.com, logmein.com |
| Science | Sites that discuss the study and information in any branch of science. Example Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Space/Astronomy, etc. | ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, sciencedirect.com, nature.com |
| Search Engines | Sites used to search the Internet and find other web pages. Excludes Image Search and Engines under Shopping group. But includes white pages, yellow pages, and business search directories whether global or local. Examples are business listings, find people, people finder etc. | google.com, bing.com, yahoo.com |
| Security | Sites that protect data, such as a database, from destructive forces and the unwanted actions of unauthorized users, and defends information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction. | barracudanetworks.com, mcafee.com, crowdstrike.com |
| Security Risk | Sites that are pervasive and can pose a direct threat to business availability. A risk management site is essential for managing vulnerabilities and other risks. | NULL |
| Security Risk – Ad Fraud | Sites that are being used to commit fraudulent online display advertising transactions using different ad impression boosting techniques, including but not limited to ads stacking, iframe stuffing, and hidden ads. Sites that have high non-human web traffic and with rapid, large, and unexplained changes in traffic. | NULL |
| Security Risk – Attack | Sites that attempt to gain unauthorized access to information resources or services or cause harm or damage to information systems. | NULL |
| Security Risk – Botnets | Sites or compromised web servers running software that is used by hackers to send spam, phishing attacks, and denial of service attacks. | NULL |
| Security Risk – Command and Control server | Internet servers and compromised command and control (C2 or C&C) servers and centers used to send commands to infected machines called bots. And sites that are a security risk because call-home malware is detected. | NULL |
| Security Risk – Compromised/malicious sites | Sites that appear to be legitimate, but house malicious code or link to malicious websites hosting malware. These sites have been compromised by someone other than the site owner. | NULL |
| Security Risk – Cryptocurrency Mining | Sites that use cryptocurrency mining technology without user permission. | NULL |
| Security Risk – DGA | Domains that are generated algorithmically using a domain generation algorithm (DGA). These domains are used by DGA-based malware as their C2 channel, and they aim to hide the location of the active C2 server. | NULL |
| Security Risk – Hacking | Sites with information or tools specifically intended to assist in online crime, such as the unauthorized access to computers, but also pages with tools and information that enables fraud and other online crime. | NULL |
| Security Risk – Malware Distribution Point | Sites that host viruses, exploits, and other malware are considered Malware Distribution Points. | NULL |
| Security Risk – Miscellaneous | Sites with security risk indicators that aren’t mapped to any of the other listed security risk types (e.g., high risk, medium risk, and possible risk). | NULL |
| Security Risk – Phishing/Fraud | Sites that impersonate other web pages, usually with the intent of stealing passwords, credit card numbers, or other information. Also includes websites that are part of scams such as a 419 scam where a person is convinced to hand over money with the expectation of a big payback that never comes (e.g., con, hoax, scam, etc.). | NULL |
| Security Risk – Spam sites | URLs that frequently occur in spam messages. | NULL |
| Security Risk – Spyware & Questionable Software | Sites that report information back to a central server, such as spyware or keystroke loggers. It also includes software that may have legitimate purposes, but some people may object to having on their system. | NULL |
| Shareware/Freeware | Sites that offer licensed downloads on software for evaluation, after which a fee will be requested for continued use. Also includes companiy sites offering free use of their software for life. Examples are free software downloads, trial wires, free trial software, demoware etc. | play.google.com, filehippo.com, downloadsource. es |
| Shopping | Sites that welcome to purchase goods, services, items and others being sold online. Examples are online store, order online, shopping etc. | walmart.com, target.com, bestbuy.com, ginatricot.com |
| Social | Web sites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking. | facebook.com, snapchat.com, twitter.com |
| Social & Affiliation Organizations | Sites for clubs, social organizations, and groups that form around common interests where the primary purpose is to meet for social purposes or to meet people with common interests. Clubs may be devoted to social activities, hobbies, religion, politics, etc. Excludes sports clubs, teams, and organizations. Examples are book club, scouts, sorority etc. | acs.org, kde.org, ics.org |
| Sports | Web pages that provide information on news, events, schedules, rankings, and other aspects of sports. | 247sports.com, nba.com, espn.com |
| Streaming & Downloadable Audio | Sites with repositories of music that provide streaming music, or other audio files that might pose a bandwidth risk to companies. Examples are internet radio, mp3 downloads, Shoutcasts, etc. | audible.com, radio.com, spotify.com |
| Streaming & Downloadable Video | Sites with repositories of videos or that provide in-browser streaming videos that may pose a bandwidth risk to companies. Examples are movie downloads, streaming movies etc. | netflix.com, hulu.com, kanopy.com |
| Survey Solutions | Sites for survey methodology studies, like the sampling of individual units from a population and the associated survey data collection techniques, such as questionnaire construction and methods for improving the number and accuracy of responses to surveys. | surveymonkey.com, surveygizmo.com, jotform. com |
| Technology | Sites related to technology. Examples are design web templates, robotics, cloud computing software, drones, etc. | javaworld.com, ubuntu.com, apple.com |
| Telecom and Call Center | Telecom applications use the VoIP protocol to enable telephone connectivity in inter-office and intra-office environments. Vendors create virtual PBX in their data centers to handle multiple customers. Call Center applications provide enterprises with the features and tools to automate the process of receiving and responding to customer phone calls. Features include call tracking, monitoring, multimedia recording, employee evaluation of call handling capabilities through automated feedback, multi-site routing, and voice recognition. | twilio.com, intercom.com, ringcentral.com |
| Telecommuting | Sites that depict working remotely. Employees do not need to commute to a central place of work. Examples are remote work, telework, home based jobs etc. | cjinc.info, freeeup.com, myworkforlife.com |
| Tobacco | Sites that promote or sell tobacco products, such as cigarettes, cigars, Shisha and chew. | cigarsinternational.com, allcigs.com, thompsoncigars.com |
| Trading & Investing | Sites assisting in investing, trading, stock and share dealing. | fidelity.com, schwab.com, vanguard.com |
| Translation | Sites that translate from one language to another. Examples are translator site, language translator, translator, online language translator etc. | translate.google.com, translator.microsoft.com, freetranslation.com |
| Travel | Sites that provides travel information, guidance, and tips on travel. Also includes sites with information, travel timetable, online bookings, hotels and other related details on travel. | booking.com, tripadvisor.com, expedia.com |
| Uncategorized | Domains that are yet to be categorized | NULL |
| Unreachable | Sites that give errors such as “Network Timeout”, “Taking too long to respond” or “Address Not Found”. | NULL |
| URL Shorteners | Sites that reduce the length of URLs, minimizing web pages addresses to make them easier to remember and track. This category also includes URLs that were shortened with these sites. | tinyurl.com, bit.ly |
| Utilities | Sites that include tips, information and guide to computer utilities, such as disk backup, etc. Examples are disk performance, system utilities, PC performance tools etc. | open-file.ru, vredd.it, myonlineradio.co |
| Weapons | Site with guns and weapons not used in a violent manner, such as descriptions, sport hunting, gun clubs, or paintball. It also includes other weapons like crossbows, knives, etc. Examples are gun crossbow, knives, rifles, etc. | armslist.com, gunbroker.com, coldsteel.com |
| Web Analytics | Web analytics sites that measure, collect, analyze, and report web data to understand and optimize web usage. Web analytics applications can also help companies measure the results of traditional print or broadcast advertising campaigns. | count.ly, crazyegg.com, heapanalytics.com |
| Web Conferencing | Web conferencing sites is an umbrella term for various types of online collaborative services including web seminars, webcasts, and peer-level web meetings. | webex.com, zoom.us, gotomeeting.com |
| Web Design | Web design sites encompass many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design, interface design, authoring, including standardized code and proprietary software, user experience design, and search engine optimization. | sites.google.com, civicplus.com, squarespace.com |
| Web Hosting, ISP & Telco | Web hosting and blog hosting sites, and also Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and telecommunications (phone) companies. Examples are ISP, internet access, cable modem etc. | godaddy.com, bluehost.com, hostinger.com |
| Web Proxies/Anonymizers | Web proxies and anonymizers are services that allow users to hide their identity, IP address and location when they browse the web. Netskope Cloud Confidence Index (CCI) does not apply to these apps. | kproxy.com, hidemyass.com, expressvpn.com |
| Webmail | Webmail (or web-based email) sites are any email clients implemented as a web application running on a web server. Enables users to send and/or receive email through a web accessible email account. | mail.google.com, outlook.com, protonmail.com |
