Using Categories for Web-Filtering
SafeDNS provides 61 categories, each can be blocked with a single click, categories contain:
- Drugs & violence.
- Pornography & sexuality.
- Cyberthreats.
- Gambling.
SafeDNS provides a feature where the user can make a schedule of different time durations where they can block/access the specified category during the specified time duration.
The predefined filtering categories available on SafeDNS:
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Virus Propagation | Sites spreading viruses and other malware |
| Phishing | Sites devoted to deceive Internet users (fake pages from banks and payment systems, other methods of fraud) |
| Botnets | Control centers of botnets |
| Online Ads | Advertising systems and banner networks |
| Drugs | Sites advertising or selling drugs |
| Tasteless | Sites containing excessive amounts of tasteless language or unmoderated forums |
| Academic Fraud | Sites with plagiarism, academic fraud and etc. |
| Parked Domains | Sites without real content which are temporarily placed at the domain registrar, often used for virus propagation |
| Hate & Discrimination | Site devoted to the propaganda of aggression, racism, terrorism |
| Proxies & Anonymizers | Sites and other systems bypassing content filters |
| Adult Sites | Sites with adult content, mostly about sex but without pornography |
| Alcohol & Tobacco | Sites selling or containing information on alcohol and tobacco |
| Dating | Dating websites |
| Pornography & Sexuality | Sites containing pornography in any form |
| Child Sexual Abuse (IWF) | Sites containing child sexual abuse images, criminally obscene adult and child sexual abuse content from a list compiled by Internet Watch Foundation/IWF (UK) |
| Child Sexual Abuse (Arachnid) | Sites containing child sexual abuse material from a list compiled by Canadian Centre for Child Protection (CAN) as part of its Project Arachnid |
| German Youth Protection | Sites considered unsafe by Federal Department for media harmful to young persons (BPjM, Germany) |
| Astrology | Occult and astrology sites |
| Gambling | Casinos, lotteries and other gambling systems |
| Torrents & P2P | Torrent trackers and P2P networks |
| File Storage | Download archives, file-sharing sites |
| Movies & Video | Online movies and videos |
| Music & Radio | Internet radio and music archives |
| Photo Sharing | Archives of photos, photo galleries |
| Chats & Messengers | Online chats and instant messengers, servers of messaging systems |
| Forums | Forums |
| Games | Computer and video games websites |
| Social Networks | Social Networks |
| Entertainment | Entertainment portals. Sites of cafes and restaurants. Other sites with information about leisure and entertainment |
| Automobile | Sites about cars and other types of transport |
| Blogs | Systems of mass hosting, personal websites, blogs |
| Corporate Sites | Sites of commercial organizations |
| E-commerce | Online shops |
| Education | Websites of educational institutions, educational portals |
| Finances | Sites of banks and other financial institutions |
| Government | Official government sites |
| Health & Fitness | Sites of hospitals, medical centers and health care organizations. Health portals. |
| Humor | Humorous and entertaining sites, often tasteless |
| Jobs & Career | Job portals |
| Weapons | Websites about weapons and army |
| Politics, Society and Law | Political news sites, political parties and organizations. Sites of legal organizations. Laws |
| News & Media | News agencies, media sites |
| Non-profit | Sites of non-profit organizations |
| Portals | Common portals |
| Religious | Sites of religious and anti-religious organizations |
| Search Engines | Search Engines |
| Computers & Internet | Sites about IT, software, internet and computers |
| Sports | Site devoted to the sport or sports organizations |
| Science & Technology | Sites of scientific organizations, information and news of the scientific community |
| Travel | Sites about tourism and travel |
| Home & Family | Sites about home, family, and hobbies |
| Shopping | Sites on shopping not related to the category of online stores |
| Arts | Museums, art portals and galleries |
| Webmail | Webmail systems |
| Real Estate | Websites with information about sale and purchase of real estate |
| Classifieds | Classifieds |
| Business | Sites on various issues of business and economics |
| Kids | Sites for children |
| Trackers & Analytics | Web analytics systems, including systems for tracking users |
| Crypto Mining | Sites stealthily mining crypto currencies |
| Online Libraries | Sites of online libraries |