Internet is a place where you can get access to many things belonging to different categories. Most of the websites are categorized for Family use and only for Adults. For a person’s safety on the net, many parents, officers and companies block many websites. There are many services using which you can block as many websites as your from your IP address.OpenDNS is the world’s largest DNS service for home, schools and businesses. It is being said that they look after nearly 30 billion queries per day. They also take care of DNS for over 1 million internet users.

All internet users, below the age of 18 might find it very tough to accept your parents blocking all the porn, dating sites from your view. You might be frustrated, but this is done only for your safety.

OpenDNS published a report of their daily activities and displayed the top 10 blocked categories, blacklisted sites and much more.

Top 10 Blocked Categories

It is not at all a surprise to find that the top blocked categories are for safer web access for students and children with porn, sexuality leading the chart.
1.Pornography — 85%
2.Sexuality — 80.1%2
3.Tasteless — 77.3%3
4.Proxy/Anonymizer — 76.2%4
5.Adware — 69%5
6.Nudity — 67.2%6
7.Hate/Discrimination — 58.7%7
8.Lingerie/Bikini — 58.5%8
9.Gambling — 58%9
10.Drugs — 57.3%

Top 10 Blocked Websites

People do this when they want to block only some websites from a particular category. This top ten list suggests a concern with the use of bandwidth by streaming sites and with privacy concerns from advertising networks. Percentages indicate the proportion of networks using blacklisting that reference a given site.

1. Facebook.com —14.2%
2. MySpace.com — 9.9%
3. YouTube.com — 8.1%
4. Doubleclick.net — 6.4%
5. Twitter.com — 2.3%
6. Ad.yieldmanager.com — 1.9%
7. Redtube.com —1.4%
8. Limewire.com — 1.3%
9. Pornhub.com —1.2%
10. Playboy.com — 1.2%

Top 10 White-listed Websites

This precaution is taken by people who want to block all the websites from a category except one or two sites. The ones which are not blocked are among the most trusted sites in their categories.

1. YouTube.com — 12.7%
2. Facebook.com — 12.6%
3. Gmail.com — 9.2%
4. Google.com — 9%
5. Translate.Google.com — 6.3%
6. LinkedIn.com — 6%
7. MySpace.com — 4.7%
8. Skype.com — 4.6%
9. Deviantart.com — 4.3%
10. Yahoo.com — 3.9%

Sites Blocked by Businesses

Business companies have specific goals in mind when blocking websites. They need to ensure compliance with HR policies, while also increasing worker productivity by preventing what they consider to be employee cyber slacking. This list shows that many businessmen are concerned with singling out popular sites considered to be of little value in a work setting, especially if they consume a lot of bandwidth. Percentages indicate proportion of business networks using blacklisting feature that reference a given site.

1. Facebook.com — 23%
2. MySpace.com — 13%
3. YouTube.com — 11.9%
4. Ad.Doubleclick.net — 5.7%
5. Twitter.com — 4.2%
6. Hotmail.com — 2.1%
7. Orkut.com — 2.1%
8. Ad.Yieldmanager.com — 1.8%
9. Meebo.com — 1.6%
10. eBay.com — 1.6%

Now that you know about the sites that most of the parent, companies block, it will be a good option to block sites which contain adult content. Share your thoughts through the comment form below.