Protect millions of subscribers, comply with national and regional content regulations, and launch value-added filtering services with our database of 100 million classified domains.
Telecommunications carriers route the internet traffic of entire nations through their networks.
Telecom operators face a unique web filtering challenge that no other industry encounters: the sheer volume and velocity of DNS queries and HTTP requests flowing through their infrastructure. A mid-size carrier may process billions of DNS resolutions per day across mobile, fixed broadband, and enterprise segments. Every one of these queries represents an opportunity to protect a subscriber from unsafe content, or inappropriate content -- but only if the classification lookup can happen in real time without adding latency that degrades the subscriber experience.
Our web filtering database is purpose-built for this scale. With 100 million pre-classified domains available through a high-performance API that responds in under 50 milliseconds, carriers can integrate domain classification into their DNS infrastructure, transparent proxies, or DPI platforms without creating bottlenecks. The database is continuously updated with new domain classifications, newly detected content risks, and reclassified domains, ensuring that the millions of new domains registered every month are classified and available for filtering decisions within hours rather than days or weeks.
Your subscribers trust you to deliver safe, reliable internet connectivity.
Telecom subscribers range from tech-savvy professionals to elderly users who can barely distinguish a legitimate website from a restricted content page, from enterprise clients expecting enterprise-grade web filtering to teenagers exploring the internet for the first time. Each of these subscriber segments faces different content risks, but all of them expect their carrier to provide a baseline level of protection. restricted content attacks alone cost consumers billions of dollars annually, and subscribers who fall victim to attacks while connected to your network may hold you partially responsible -- rightly or not -- damaging your brand and increasing churn.
Network-level web filtering powered by our 59-category classification system enables carriers to offer differentiated protection tiers. A basic subscriber plan might include unsafe content blocking at no additional cost, while premium tiers could add parental controls, adult content filtering, and advanced content risk categories. Enterprise subscribers can receive customizable filtering policies that align with their corporate security requirements. This tiered approach transforms web filtering from a cost center into a revenue-generating value-added service while simultaneously reducing the support burden from subscribers who encounter unsafe content or fraud.
Governments worldwide are mandating content filtering obligations for telecommunications carriers.
The regulatory landscape for telecom content filtering is accelerating rapidly across the globe. The EU Digital Services Act imposes transparency and accountability obligations on intermediary services. The UK Online Safety Act requires ISPs to offer content filtering to protect children. Australia's Online Safety Act empowers regulators to issue blocking orders for harmful content. Numerous countries across Asia, the Middle East, and Africa have existing or forthcoming regulations requiring carriers to block access to specific categories of content including terrorism, child exploitation material, gambling, and copyright-infringing sites.
Compliance with these diverse and evolving mandates requires a flexible, comprehensive classification system. Our 59 content categories map directly to the content types that regulators most commonly require carriers to filter. Categories including unsafe content, Adult Content, Violence, Gambling, Drugs, and Weapons correspond to the most frequently regulated content types across jurisdictions. Our database of 100 million domains provides the breadth of coverage that regulators expect, and our continuous reclassification pipeline ensures that newly created domains targeting regulated categories are identified and classified promptly.
Transform network security from an operational cost into a subscriber-facing revenue stream.
In an increasingly commoditized broadband market where subscribers choose carriers based on price and speed, value-added services represent a critical differentiation and revenue opportunity. Parental controls consistently rank among the most requested features in broadband subscriber surveys, with parents willing to pay premium prices for services that help them manage their children's online experience. Enterprise clients similarly value managed security services that extend protection to employee devices connected over the carrier's network.
Our classification database enables carriers to build subscriber-facing filtering products with customizable category controls. Parents can toggle individual categories on and off, set time-based schedules that allow social media after homework hours but block it during school time, and receive activity reports showing the types of content their children's devices attempt to access. Enterprise subscribers can define corporate filtering policies that apply to any device connected over the carrier network, extending their security perimeter without requiring VPN connections. All of these subscriber-facing features are powered by the same 59-category classification system and 100 million domain database, making it straightforward to layer additional products on top of the core filtering infrastructure.
Enterprise-grade features designed for carrier network environments
Sub-50ms API responses support billions of daily lookups. Designed for integration with carrier DNS resolvers, transparent proxies, and deep packet inspection platforms at network edge.
Comprehensive taxonomy covering web-based risks, adult content, productivity, lifestyle, and communication categories. Maps directly to regulatory content filtering mandates across jurisdictions.
Enable individual subscribers to customize their filtering preferences. Support tiered service plans from basic content filtering to comprehensive parental controls with granular category selection.
Database refreshed continuously with new domain classifications, content filterings, and reclassifications. New domains classified within hours of registration, not days or weeks.
How telecom operators leverage our web filtering database
Mobile carriers can offer network-level parental controls that work across all apps and browsers on a child's device without requiring any software installation. Parents activate filtering through a self-service portal, selecting which content categories to block and setting time-based access schedules. Since filtering happens at the network DNS level, it cannot be bypassed by tech-savvy children using alternative browsers.
Fixed-line broadband subscribers connect dozens of devices to their home networks -- laptops, phones, smart TVs, IoT devices, and gaming consoles. Carrier-level DNS filtering protects every connected device from restricted content, unsafe content, and command-and-control communications without requiring per-device security software, which many IoT devices cannot support.
Carriers operating in jurisdictions with mandatory content filtering requirements can use our database to comply with government-issued blocking orders. The 59-category taxonomy maps to commonly regulated content types, and our API supports custom blocklists for jurisdiction-specific domain blocks ordered by courts or regulatory authorities.
Business subscribers can receive enterprise-grade web filtering as a managed service from their carrier, extending corporate security policies to any device connected over the carrier network. This eliminates the need for always-on VPN connections to corporate infrastructure and provides consistent protection for remote and mobile workers across the carrier's entire coverage area.
Protect subscribers and generate new revenue streams with 100 million classified domains