ScreenedOut List

Palisade’s web filtering solutions filter content using the ScreenedOut List, a list of millions of Web sites arranged into multiple categories. Administrators can select those categories they wish to block, monitor, or ignore. It is also possible to add sites to categories or allow access to sites within a blocked category.

The categories are as follows:

Ad Servers /Advertisement 

This category is a list of servers used for ad banners and other forms of advertising. Examples: Adcept, DoubleClick, Just Web Ads.

Arts & Entertainment 

This category contains media sites such as programming guides and discussion forums for television, movies, music and video, broadcasting firms and technologies, and radio. Sites pertaining to print media include online magazines and reviews on the entertainment industry, circuses, theatre, variety magazines, book reviews and promotions, publishing houses, comic books and poetry. Sites pertaining to humor include jokes, comedians, any site designed to be funny or satirical. Artistic and miscellaneous sites such as online museums, galleries, artist sites, celebrity fan sites, horoscopes, city guides and online greeting cards are also included in the list. Examples: Art.com, Clip Art Server, Cartoon Factory Animation, Blue Mountain - online greeting cards.

Chat Rooms 

Chat rooms include all Web-based (via HTTP, not IRC) Chat groups. Chat rooms allow people to come together online to chat about current events, dating, particular interest and debates on hot topics. Examples: chat.msn, CyberLounge, HeadSpace, 2000teenchat.

Computing & the Internet 

Internet communications, earn while you surf sites, yahoo.logins, telephony, file sharing, file storage, reviews/information, buyers guides of computers, computer parts, accessories, and software, computers/software/Internet companies, industry news and magazines.

Criminal Skills 

Advocating, instructing, or giving advice on performing illegal acts such as phone, service theft, evading law enforcement, lock-picking, fraud, plagiarism/cheating, burglary techniques, bomb making instructions, computer hacking, burglary, murders, rapes, etc.

Dating Services 

Singles listings, matchmaking and dating services, advice for dating or relationships, romance tips and suggestions are all part of this category. Examples: #1 Dating, Match Ranger.

Drugs - Illegal 

URLs in this category provide information on purchasing and using illegal or recreational drugs. Included are sites that contain recipes, instructions and kits for manufacturing or growing illicit substances, including alcohol, for purposes other than industrial usage. Also, sites that glamorize, encourage, or instruct on the use of or masking the use of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, or other substances that are illegal to minors, as well as all alcohol and tobacco manufacturers' commercial Web sites. Sites that include information on "legal highs": glue sniffing, misuse of prescription drugs or abuse of other legal substances are in this category. URLs about distributing alcohol, illegal drugs, or tobacco free or for a charge and displaying, selling, or detailing use of drug paraphernalia are also included. Examples: Cannabis.net, RecPharm Database.

NOTE: Sites that include or discuss medicinal drug use, industrial hemp use, or public debate on the issue of legalizing certain drugs are not included. Nor are sites that are sponsored by a public or private agency that provides educational information on drug use.

Education 

This category includes .edu sites, pre-/elementary, secondary, high schools, universities, distance education, and trade schools. Also included are online teacher resources.

Food 

Contains recipes, cooking instructions and tips, food products and wine advisors. Also includes food/drink magazines, and reviews of restaurants, cafes, eateries, pubs, and bars.

Gambling 

The gambling category contains URLs that encourage betting money or items on the outcome of games and contests. It includes sites offering gaming, bookmaker odds, lottery pages, and bingo. Examples: Online Casinos, Online Sports Betting, Super Blackjack, The New York Lottery Page.

Games 

This category focuses on game playing or downloading; game hosting or contest hosting, tips and advice on games or obtaining cheat codes ("cheatz"), journals and magazines dedicated to game playing. Examples: Games Workshop, ShockWave, Interactive WWW Games.

General News 

URLs in this category include newspapers online, headline news sites, newswire services, personalized news services and weather sites. Examples: CNN, BBC, The Weather channel.

Glamour & Intimate Apparel 

Lingerie, negligee or swimwear modelling. Model fan pages, fitness models/sports celebrities.

Government & Politics 

Government services such as taxation, armed farces, custom bureaus, emergency services. Local government sites, political debate, canvassing, election information and results, political conspiracy.

Hacking 

Sites that provide work-arounds for filtering software, cracked software, pirated software, download sites and pirated multimedia download sites.

Hate Speech 

This category includes sites that are advocating or inciting degradation or attack of specified populations or institutions based on associations such as religion, race, nationality, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Also, sites that promote a political or social agenda that is supremacist in nature and exclusionary of others based on their race, religion, nationality, gender, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Holocaust revisionist/denial sites, coercion or recruitment for membership in a gang* or cult** and militancy, extremist sites are also included.

NOTE: Sites that are not included are news, historical, or press incidents that may include the above criteria (except in graphic examples).

*A gang is defined as: a group whose primary activities are the commission of felonious criminal acts, which has a common name or identifying sign or symbol, and whose members individually or collectively engage in criminal activity in the name of the group.

**A cult is defined as: a group whose followers have been deceptively and manipulatively recruited and retained through undue influence such that followers' personalities and behavior are altered. Leadership is all-powerful, ideology is totalistic, and the will of the individual is subordinate to the group. A cult group sets itself outside of society.

Health & Medicine 

Sites about general health such as fitness and well-being. Also includes medical reference, self-help, psychology.

Hobbies & Recreation 

Sites include recreational pastimes such as collecting, gardening and kit airplanes. Also, outdoor recreational activities such as hiking, camping, rock climbing and tips or trends focused on a specific art, craft, or technique. Online publications on a specific pastime or recreational activity and online clubs, associations or forums dedicated to a hobby are also included in this category. Examples: Hobby.com, Recreation.gov, Online Rec. center.

Investments 

The investing category includes sites dealing with stock quotes, stock tickers, fund rates, online stock or equity trading. Also, sites that offer investing advice or contacts for trading securities, money management/investment services or firms, general finances and companies that advise thereof, accountancy, actuaries, banks, mortgages, and general insurance companies. Examples: E-Trade, Ameritrade, Wells Fargo, TradingSolutions.

Job Search 

Job Search is a rapidly growing category that includes anything related to a job search. It contains sites concerned with anything from resume writing, interviewing, changing careers, to classified advertising. Large job databases, career development sites, and individual URLs within otherwise uncategorized sites that list job-related opportunities are included. For example, many corporate Web pages list the company's job openings. Examples: Dice.com, Employment Search Productions, Monster.com, CareerResume.

Kids' Sites 

Sites specifically aimed at children under the age of 12 years or published by children.

Lifestyle 

URLs in this category may contain home life and family-related topics, including parenting tips, gay/lesbian/bisexual (non-pornographic sites), weddings, births, funerals, foreign cultures, socio-cultural information. Examples: Family Search, World Guide to Vegetarianism, Homosexuality, Naturism.

Motor Vehicles 

Includes car reviews, vehicle purchasing, or sales tips, and discussion groups on most any vehicle. Magazines on vehicle modification, repair and customisation are also included.

Online Shopping 

Internet malls and online auctions, department stores, retail stores, online company catalogs, and online, downloadable product warehouses. Specialty items for sale, freeware, shareware, and software downloads and freebies or merchandise giveaways are all included in this category. Examples: Pottery Barn, Mall.com, Best Buy.

Photo Search 

Includes sites that provide resources for photo and image searches.

Pornography / Sex 

This category contains URLs that reference, discuss, or show sexually oriented or erotic full or partial nudity, depictions or images of sexual acts, including animals or inanimate objects used in a sexual manner. Also, Erotic stories and textual descriptions of sexual acts, sexually exploitive or sexually violent text or graphics, bondage, fetishes, genital piercing. Adult products including sex toys, CD-ROMs, and videos, adult services including videoconferencing, escort services, and strip clubs, and explicit cartoons and animation are also included in this category. Examples: Playboy, FancyPleasure, PORN USA, SuperSex of North America.

NOTE: URLs regarding sexual health, breast cancer, or sexually transmitted diseases (except in graphic examples) are not included but can be included by adding them to the local list.

Real Estate 

This category contains sites listing homes, apartments, and/or land, and sites giving tips on buying or selling a property. Home improvement sites and relocation services are also included.

Reference 

Includes personal, professional or educational references such as online dictionaries and maps, or any site providing statistics or facts.

Religion 

Religion includes anything to do with churches, synagogues, and other houses of worship, any faith or religious beliefs, including non-traditional religions such as Wicca and witchcraft. Examples: Spiritual Spectrum, CARNAL.

Remote Proxies 

URLs in this category include remote proxies or anonymous surfing and peer-to-peer sharing. Examples: LimeWire, KaZaA website.

Search Engines 

This category contains general search engines. Examples: Yahoo, Google, Alta Vista.

Sex Education 

Includes material of a sexual but informative nature--not titillating or graphic.

Sports 

This category contains URLs that reference team or conference web sites, national, international, college, professional scores and schedules, and sports-related online magazines or newsletters. Examples: Sport.com, Sport Club.

Streaming Media 

This category includes streaming media files or events and any live or archived audio or video feed.

Travel 

This category includes travel-related activities, such as airlines and flight booking agencies, accommodation information, travel package listings, city guides and tourist information, weather bureaus and car rentals. Examples: Orbitz, Travelocity.

Usenet News 

Usenet news includes all newsgroups accessed through the http protocol. Examples: NewzBot, GUBA- Gigantic Usenet Binaries Archive, DejaNews, ZippoNews.

Violence 

This category includes sites that portray, describe or advocate physical assault against humans, animals, or institutions. Also, depictions of torture, mutilation, gore, or horrific death, any sites advocating suicide or self-mutilation, instructions. Sites with recipes or kits for making bombs or other harmful or destructive devices and excessive use of profanity or obscene gesticulation are also included in this category. Example: The Stalking Page

NOTE: News, historical, or press incidents that may include the above criteria (except in graphic examples) are not included.

Weapons 

URLs in this category include sites such as online purchasing or ordering information, including lists of prices and dealer locations, any page or site predominantly containing, or providing links to, content related to the sale of guns, weapons, ammunition or poisonous substances and displaying or detailing the use of guns, weapons, ammunition or poisonous substances. Example: Unlimited Weapons System.

NOTE: Weapons are defined as something used to injure, defeat, or destroy, such as a club, knife, or gun.

Web-Based E-Mail 

This category includes Web-based e-mail accounts and SMS Messaging (e.g. Instant Messaging). Examples: Hotmail, Yahoo Messaging.

Web Hosting 

URLs in this category include Web sites that host business and individuals' Web pages. Examples: GeoCities, Earthlink.net, AOL.