Reference: Unauthorized Content Policy Categories
Unauthorized Content is divided into Adult, Violent, and Criminal content with Personal, Unknown, and Web-based Communication Content coming soone. Subcategories for these are described below:
| Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Adult Content | |
| Gambling | Sites that directly participate in gambling, lotteries, and real or virtual sports betting, or share information and advice for placing wagers |
| Nudity | Nude or seminude depictions of the human body, whether or not they are sexual in nature. |
| Pornography | Sexually explicit material, products, or social forums. This includes images, videos, text stories, adult toys, escort services, and sexually explicit art. |
| R rated | Sites that contain content that may be unsuitable for a work environment or certain audiences. |
| Sexually Suggestive | Sites that include swimsuits, intimate apparel, or other suggestive clothing. |
| Sex erotica | Sites that contain sexual content. |
| Personal Content (Coming Soon) | |
| Games | Sites providing online games for recreational use. |
| Media search and sharing | Sites that enable users to store and share multimedia files (photos, videos, music) with other users. |
| Social networking | Sites used to build or maintain social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar interests. |
| Streaming media and downloads | Sites providing streaming content such as movies, music, and TV shows. |
| Unknown Category Content (Coming Soon) | |
| No Content | Registered sites that provide no content. |
| Parked Domains | Domains that are registered but unused, often held for the purpose of selling the domain name to an interested buyer or reserving it for future use. |
| Uncategorized | Sites that are newly registered and uncategorized by DNS. Uncategorized sites are often the source of malware/phishing attacks and Illegal content. |
| Web-based Communication Content (Coming Soon) | |
| Web-based email | Sites hosting public email services. |
| Internet communications | Sites providing message services including SMS text messaging, chat services, blogs. |
| Peer-to-peer | Applications enabling direct person-to-person interaction without using a central server. |
| Violent Content | |
| Aggressive | Sites that depict forceful and hostile behavior, whether physical or psychological. |
| Violence | Sites that depict violence or violent methods, or advocate violence. Includes game/comic violence and suicide. |
| Criminal Content | |
| Child abuse images | Sites that depict or advocate child neglect or the physical, emotional, or sexual abuse of children. |
| Criminal activities | Sites that depict or advise on criminal activity including copyright and intellectual property theft. |
| Criminal skills | Sites advocating or providing guidance around bribery, blackmail, theft, and other crimes. |
| Hacking | Sites advocating or providing guidance on illegal or questionable use of communications equipment/software, or sites that promote or aid the development and distribution of hacking tools or pirated software. |
| Hate speech | Sites that host content and language supporting hate crimes and racism. |
| Illegal drugs | Sites that advocate the use of drugs that are unlawful to possess or distribute. |
| Piracy | Sites that unlawfully share copyright protected content. |
| School cheating | Sites that support and aid in academic cheating, including those hosting plagiarized essays, copies of exams and course materials, or offering essay writing services. |
| Self harm | Sites advocating or providing guidance on self harm. |
| Terrorism | Sites advocating the use of violence and intimidation in pursuit of political objectives. |
| Torrent repository | Sites that share torrent files for distributing movies, games, and software. |
