Protect Your Organization with Domain Categorization Across 100 Million Domains and 59 Content Categories for Policy Enforcement, Data Loss Prevention, and Shadow IT Detection
Enterprise web security has evolved far beyond simple URL blacklists. Modern organizations face a complex threat landscape where employees access thousands of domains daily. A comprehensive categorization database provides the intelligence layer every security stack requires.
Block newly registered suspicious domains within minutes, before an incident occurs — no signatures needed.
Granular classification across adult content, social media, file sharing, gambling, and dozens more categories.
Feed categorization directly into firewalls, secure web gateways, SIEM platforms, and SOAR playbooks.
Transform written policies into automated, real-time enforcement with granular domain categorization
Every enterprise maintains an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) that defines which web resources employees may access during work hours and on corporate devices. Traditionally, enforcing these policies relied on manual audits and employee self-compliance. With a web filtering database, AUP enforcement becomes automated, consistent, and auditable.
Category-based policies also adapt to organizational structure.
Different access rules per department, team, or individual based on job function
Restrict or allow categories during specific hours or business periods
Complete logging of policy decisions for compliance and HR investigations
Identify unauthorized services and prevent sensitive data from leaving your network perimeter
Shadow IT -- the use of unsanctioned applications and cloud services by employees -- represents one of the largest security gaps in modern enterprises, particularly in organizations experiencing succession planning gaps where IT oversight may be limited.
Data loss prevention extends beyond endpoint agents. By categorizing the domains employees interact with, security teams can identify potential exfiltration vectors in real time.
Domain categories such as file sharing, paste sites, personal email, cloud storage, and encrypted communications provide the context that traditional DLP systems lack.
Feed domain intelligence into your existing security operations ecosystem
Enrich firewall logs, proxy logs, and DNS query logs with domain categories in real time.
Automate incident response with category-aware playbooks.
Feed category data directly into Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point, and other NGFW platforms via their external dynamic list or content classification feed mechanisms.
Augment your Zscaler, Netskope, or McAfee Web Gateway deployment with additional categorization intelligence.
Query domain categories via a simple REST API with sub-50ms response times. Supports batch lookups of up to 100 domains per request for high-throughput environments. JSON responses include primary category, classification detail, and content risk indicators.
For latency-sensitive deployments, mirror the entire 90-million-domain database locally. Receive incremental updates every hour via delta feeds. Eliminates external API dependencies and ensures filtering continues even during internet outages.
Export categorization decisions in Syslog or Common Event Format (CEF) for direct ingestion by any SIEM platform. Supports TCP, UDP, and TLS transport for secure log delivery to Splunk, QRadar, Sentinel, or Elastic.
A successful enterprise web security deployment requires careful planning around network topology, user authentication, and failover strategies. The web filtering database supports multiple deployment models to fit any enterprise environment.
Deploy as a forward proxy where all HTTP/HTTPS traffic passes through the filtering engine. Each request is categorized in real time, and policy decisions are enforced before the connection is established.
Redirect corporate DNS to filtering-enabled resolvers that check domain categories before returning IP addresses. Blocked domains receive an NXDOMAIN or redirect response.
Integrate the categorization API into existing security infrastructure. Firewalls, proxies, and SIEM platforms query the API to enrich their native decision-making capabilities.
Real-world applications of domain categorization in enterprise environments
Banks and investment firms use domain categorization to prevent access to unauthorized trading platforms, block cryptocurrency exchanges on trading floor networks, and ensure compliance with SEC and FINRA regulations around electronic communications and data handling.
Hospitals and healthcare networks enforce HIPAA requirements by blocking access to personal cloud storage, restricting social media on clinical workstations, and preventing staff from accessing domains that could introduce ransomware into systems containing protected health information.
Industrial environments use domain categorization to segment OT networks from IT networks, ensuring that industrial control systems can only communicate with approved vendor domains. Any connection attempt to an uncategorized or suspicious domain triggers an immediate alert.
Schools are among the most targeted institutions for cyberattacks, and they face the same web security challenges as enterprises — combined with a duty to protect students. Districts deploy the best web filter for schools and school districts to combine threat blocking with age-appropriate content policies.
Integrate domain categorization into your enterprise security stack with just a few lines of code
Classify domains against corporate policy categories and take automated action — block, allow, or flag for review.
import requests API_URL = "https://webfilteringdatabase.com/api/moderate.php" API_KEY = "YOUR_API_KEY" # Categories blocked by corporate acceptable use policy BLOCKED_CATEGORIES = { "Adult Content", "Gambling", "Weapons", "Drugs", "Malware", "Phishing" } def enforce_policy(domain): result = requests.post(API_URL, json={ "api_key": API_KEY, "query": domain }).json() categories = set(result.get("categories", [])) risk_level = result.get("risk_level", "low") # Block high-risk domains immediately if risk_level in ("high", "critical"): return "BLOCK", f"High risk: {risk_level}" # Check against corporate AUP categories violations = categories & BLOCKED_CATEGORIES if violations: return "BLOCK", f"Policy violation: {', '.join(violations)}" return "ALLOW", result.get("primary_category", "Uncategorized") # Enterprise firewall integration example domains_to_check = ["slack.com", "poker-site.xyz", "drive.google.com"] for domain in domains_to_check: action, reason = enforce_policy(domain) print(f"{action}: {domain} — {reason}")
const API_URL = 'https://webfilteringdatabase.com/api/moderate.php'; const API_KEY = 'YOUR_API_KEY'; const BLOCKED_CATEGORIES = new Set([ 'Adult Content', 'Gambling', 'Weapons', 'Drugs', 'Malware', 'Phishing' ]); async function enforcePolicy(domain) { const response = await fetch(API_URL, { method: 'POST', headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, body: JSON.stringify({ api_key: API_KEY, query: domain }) }); const result = await response.json(); // Block high-risk domains at the gateway if (['high', 'critical'].includes(result.risk_level)) { return { action: 'BLOCK', reason: `Risk: ${result.risk_level}` }; } // Check AUP category violations const violations = (result.categories || []) .filter(c => BLOCKED_CATEGORIES.has(c)); if (violations.length) { return { action: 'BLOCK', reason: violations.join(', ') }; } return { action: 'ALLOW', reason: result.primary_category }; } // Check enterprise traffic ['slack.com', 'poker-site.xyz', 'drive.google.com'] .forEach(async (d) => { const { action, reason } = await enforcePolicy(d); console.log(`${action}: ${d} — ${reason}`); });
# Classify a domain for enterprise policy enforcement curl -X POST "https://webfilteringdatabase.com/api/moderate.php" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY", "query": "slack.com" }' # Example response: # { # "domain": "slack.com", # "primary_category": "Business", # "categories": ["Business", "Technology", "Messaging"], # "risk_level": "low", # "risk_score": 5 # } # Check a suspicious domain curl -X POST "https://webfilteringdatabase.com/api/moderate.php" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY", "query": "poker-site.xyz" }'
<?php // Enterprise web security policy enforcement $apiUrl = 'https://webfilteringdatabase.com/api/moderate.php'; $apiKey = 'YOUR_API_KEY'; $blockedCategories = ['Adult Content', 'Gambling', 'Weapons', 'Drugs', 'Malware']; function enforcePolicy($domain, $apiUrl, $apiKey, $blocked) { $ch = curl_init($apiUrl); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode([ 'api_key' => $apiKey, 'query' => $domain ])); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Content-Type: application/json']); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $result = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true); curl_close($ch); // Check risk level if (in_array($result['risk_level'], ['high', 'critical'])) { return ['BLOCK', 'High risk: ' . $result['risk_level']]; } // Check AUP violations $violations = array_intersect($result['categories'] ?? [], $blocked); if (!empty($violations)) { return ['BLOCK', implode(', ', $violations)]; } return ['ALLOW', $result['primary_category'] ?? 'Uncategorized']; } // Enterprise gateway integration $domains = ['slack.com', 'poker-site.xyz', 'drive.google.com']; foreach ($domains as $d) { [$action, $reason] = enforcePolicy($d, $apiUrl, $apiKey, $blockedCategories); echo "$action: $d — $reason\n"; } ?>
Leverage 100 million categorized domains and 59 content categories to build a comprehensive enterprise web security strategy.