BrightCloud has the ability to adapt categories to those needed by our OEM customers. A list of currently available categories is provided below. Category descriptions are provided here.
| Abortion | Government | News and Media | Shareware and Freeware |
| Abused Drugs | Hacking | Nudity | Shopping |
| Adult and Pornography | Health & Medicine | Online Greeting Cards | Social Networking |
| Alcohol and Tobacco | Home | Personal Storage | Society |
| Auctions | Hunting and Fishing | Parked Domains | Spam URLs |
| Business and Economy | Image and Video Search | Pay to Surf | Sports |
| CDNs | Individual Stock Advice & Tools | Peer to Peer | Spyware and Adware |
| Computer and Internet Info | Internet Communications | Personal Sites and Blogs | Streaming Media |
| Computer and Internet Security | Internet Portals | Philosophy and Political Advocacy | Swimsuits & Intimate Apparel |
| Cult and Occult | Job Search | Phishing and Other Frauds | Training and Tools |
| Dating | Keyloggers and Monitoring | Private Ips | Translation |
| Dead Sites | Kids | Proxy Avoid and Anonymizers | Travel |
| Dynamically Generated Content | Legal | Questionable | Weapons |
| Educational Institutions | Local Information | Real Estate | Web Advertisements |
| Entertainment and Arts | Marijuana | Recreation and Hobbies | Web Based Email |
| Fashion and Beauty | Malware Sites | Reference and Research | Web Hosting |
| Financial Services | Military | Religion | |
| Gambling | Motor Vehicles | Search Engines | |
| Games | Music | Sex Education |