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Chapter 15 URL Filtering
About URL Categories
Determining the Category of a URL
To look up the category of a particular URL, visit the site shown in Reporting Uncategorized and
Misclassified URLs, page 15-21.
Reporting Uncategorized and Misclassified URLs
To report URLs that have been miscategorized, and URLs that are not categorized but should be, visit:
Tobacco tob 1078 Pro-tobacco websites; tobacco manufacturers; pipes
and smoking products (not marketed for illegal drug
use). Tobacco addiction is classified as “Health and
Nutrition.”
www.bat.com
www.tobacco.org
Transportation trns 1044 Personal transportation; information about cars and
motorcycles; shopping for new and used cars and
motorcycles; car clubs; boats, airplanes, recreational
vehicles (RVs), and other similar items. Note, car
and motorcycle racing is classified as “Sports and
Recreation.”
www.cars.com
www.motorcycles.com
Travel trvl 1046 Business and personal travel; travel information;
travel resources; travel agents; vacation packages;
cruises; lodging and accommodation; travel
transportation; flight booking; airfares; car rental;
vacation homes.
www.expedia.com
www.lonelyplanet.com
Unclassified — — Websites which are not in the Cisco database are
recorded as unclassified for reporting purposes. This
may include mistyped URLs.
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Weapons weap 1036 Information relating to the purchase or use of
conventional weapons such as gun sellers, gun
auctions, gun classified ads, gun accessories, gun
shows, and gun training; general information about
guns; other weapons and graphic hunting sites may
be included. Government military websites are
classified as “Government and Law.”
www.coldsteel.com
www.gunbroker.com
Web Hosting whst 1037 Website hosting; bandwidth services. www.bluehost.com
www.godaddy.com
Web Page
Translation
tran 1063 Translation of web pages between languages. babelfish.yahoo.com
translate.google.com
Web-Based Email mail 1038 Public web-based email services. Websites enabling
individuals to access their company or
organization’s email service are classified as
“Organizational Email.”
mail.yahoo.com
www.hotmail.com
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