URL Database for Web Filtering, Parental Controls, & Categorization

High Performance URL Database with Unmatched Coverage & Accuracy

500 Categories. 99.9%+ Coverage and Over 99% Accuracy of the ActiveWeb.

zvelo’s most popular URL datasets including topic-based, malicious, and objectionable URLs are packaged for easy implementation on local servers, appliances, or cloud access. The zveloDB URL Database is an all in one, award-winning URL database–designed for flexibility and performance in a variety of industries and applications including DNS filtering, web content filtering, brand safety & contextual targeting, and subscriber analytics. We leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence, alongside human-verification techniques to provide the highest quality and accuracy for URL categorizations in the zveloDB URL Database.

Our Most Powerful Datasets Combined In One Award-Winning URL Categorization Database For Web Filtering, Ad Tech, & Much More…

zveloDB™ provides exclusive “category mapping” technology that enables vendors to seamlessly migrate from an existing web filtering vendor, while retaining the category sets familiar to their end users for policies and reporting. Whether “on-disk” or cloud-based, the zveloDB URL Database provides network and endpoint security vendors with the foundation for comprehensive web filtering and policy management solutions.

Key Advantages

Pre-packaged Content, Objectionable, and Malicious datasets for optimal value
SDK, Cloud and/or true fog deployment options – with massive scalability
Real-Time, automated updates as new content and malicious sites are detected

URL Database | zveloDB for Web Filtering, Parental Controls, & More.

99.9% Coverage. Over 99% Accurate. Categorically Superior.

In order to achieve industry-leading coverage and accuracy of the ActiveWeb, we apply a “hybrid” human-supervised machine learning approach to categorizations. Gathering queries from a global network of over 600 Million end users we’re able to create training data sets and perform continuous QA samplings that feed our advanced AI-based categorization engine.

How We Do It

Industry-Leading URL Database For Web Filtering & DNS Filtering

Experience the Market’s Best ActiveWeb Coverage and Accuracy

zveloDB provides market-leading accuracy, coverage, and malicious website detection with flexible deployment options and exclusive “category mapping” technology. zveloDB enables web filtering vendors to exactly mirror the category sets familiar to system administrators and end users for policies and reporting. If you are a DNS, UTM, SaaS, or other vendor and need a premium URL database for the SOHO, SMB, Enterprise, or Gov/Ed market, zveloDB is the premier choice.

99.9% Coverage

Over 99.9% coverage of the active web traffic, incorporating URLs that have been visited by our global network of 500 million users across Network Security, IoT Security, and Ad Tech markets.

Industry-Leading Accuracy over 99% of the ActiveWeb

99%+ Accuracy

We use AI/machine learning combined with human quality assurance to maintain over 99% accuracy for categorizing web content into topic-based, objectionable, and malicious categories.

Supports Over 200 Languages

The market’s best language support by country, covering over 200 languages, using human-supervised machine learning systems. See our Language Support Map.

Fast Performance

Local lookups in 5 microseconds or 200,000 queries per second per instance using the zveloDB SDK, supplemented by cloud updates for uncategorized URLs. Alternatively, take complete control by directly ingesting all categorized URLs into your systems with a raw data stream.

Malicious Detection

Interrogate threats at the URL and IP level and identify malicious activities such as malware, phishing, fraud, and spyware. zvelo employs a crowd-sourced approach for obtaining a constant stream of URLs to analyze by combining static analysis, behavioral analysis, 3rd party industry feeds, and human-supervised machine learning to deliver the most extensive malicious site detection.

Objectionable Content

This versatile set of categories can be used in a wide variety of cultural settings. Identify URLs and for parental controls applications to block inappropriate or objectionable categories consisting of various levels of severity including porn, hate speech, violence, etc.

Granular Taxonomy

Nearly 500 different categories with exclusive category mapping that provides seamless and transparent integration with your required taxonomies. With the ability to create custom category maps for your specific application including SOHO, SMB, Enterprise, Parental Controls or a custom category map specific to your taxonomy.

Flexible Deployment Options | SDK, Database, API

Flexible Integration Options

From endpoint security to perimeter security to UTM vendors to hosted security providers, zvelo covers the broadest spectrum of flexible and easy-to-integrate deployment options including cloud-based API, a local SDK, or as a raw data stream.

Continuous Real-Time SDK Updates & Protection

Continuous Updates for the Dynamic Web

For real-time updates of newly categorized topic-based, objectionable, and malicious URLs, as well as daily database updates providing full mirror and incremental updates.

Flexible Pricing

A major advantage of the zveloDB URL Database is pricing flexibility that aligns with your business model, including “Per User”, “Per Subscriber”, “Per Appliance”, “Bandwidth”, and more.

Flexible Integration Options To Meet Your Custom Requirements

zveloDB™ is designed for OEM application needs and easily fits into existing infrastructure. Depending on your application needs it can be integrated into your datacenter, UTM appliance, server—or alternatively, via a lightweight client or RESTful API that communicates with the zvelo cloud network.

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Market-Leading URL Database Features

Coverage: zvelo’s network of 550+ hundred million users ensures over 99.9% coverage of the active web traffic.
Precision Accuracy: zvelo uses a combination of machine learning and human quality assurance to maintain high accuracy, and it is updated in real-time.
Speed & Performance: zvelo makes a decision in about 5 microseconds by using a local SDK, supplemented by cloud updates of uncategorized URLs.
Granularity: zvelo supports nearly 500 different categories in over 200 languages worldwide!
Adaptable & Scalable: Exclusive category mapping provides seamless and transparent integration with your required taxonomies, including Enterprise, SMB and Mobile Web Filtering, IAB, MRC, and OpenRTB.
Seamless Integration: zveloDB is available in an easy-to-integrate API, with local SDK, cloud-based and/or fog deployment options.
Flexible Pricing: It is priced on a flexible basis, designed to mirror a vendor’s business model including user-based, appliance model-based, bandwidth-based and others.

Ideal For A Wide Range of Applications

Web Filtering: from enterprise to SMB to parental controls, zveloDB provides flexible deployment and scalability options for virtually every deployment scenario, allowing for integration at data centers, on servers, appliances and endpoints.
Brand Safety: zveloDB provides access to rich content, objectionable and malicious datasets to address brand safety and ad fraud concerns ensure media placements always align with a brand’s image.
Contextual Targeting: zveloDB examines the content of a page to determine the context about brands, topics or keywords, in turn providing a rich data to buyers for reaching target audiences and to publishers for monetizing their inventory.
Subscriber Analytics: zveloDB is invaluable in enriching any data analytics offering and can be used in sophisticated contextual targeting or predictive churn analysis—all designed to give Mobile Service Providers insight and actionable intelligence about their subscribers.

Helping Us Make The Internet A Safer Place For All

zveloDB Data Sheet | URL Database for Web Categorization, DNS Filtering, & More...

The Industry’s Best URL Database for Content Categorization & DNS Filtering

zvelo is the leading provider of URL and IP categorization, with nearly 500 categories in over 200 languages, including topic-based, objectionable and malicious, making it ideal for integration with web filtering, brand safety, subscriber analytics, and other use cases.

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Content Dataset

Experience market leading accuracy and coverage for web and social content categorization with 99.9% coverage of the ActiveWeb and incorporating over 200 languages. For use in Network Security with web filtering and parental controls, Mobile Service Provider/Subscriber Analytics with Audience/Customer Profiling and in Ad Tech with Contextual Targeting and Brand Safety.

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Objectionable Dataset

Identify URLs that are inappropriate or non-brand safe. Categories include various levels of severity associated with porn, hate speech, violence, etc. For use in Network Security with web filtering and parental controls, and in Ad Tech with Brand Safety, or in Mobile Service Provider & Subscriber Analytics with Contextual Targeting.

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Comprehensive Page-Level Traffic Dataset

The Comprehensive Page-Level Traffic (CPT) Dataset enables you to pinpoint non-human (bot) and low quality (such as click farms) traffic beyond the domain level—all the way down to the specific page level. For use in Ad Tech with Ad Fraud Prevention.

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Invalid Traffic (IVT) Dataset

Gain insight into invalid traffic (NHT) classifications of web crawlers, traffic from known data centers, fake crawlers and malicious bots to use as a block list of IPs for invalid traffic. For use in Ad Tech with Ad Fraud prevention and Transparency and in Network Security to protect networks against malicious bot attacks.

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