Efforts are underway to convince internet security companies to block anabolic steroid websites from being accessible to internet users. LegitScript.com and KnujOn.com want the web filtering software (censorware) to prevent consumers from accessing steroid-related websites. Security companies with content filtering software include such names as Websense, Cyberpatrol, Scansafe, Barracuda, Blue Coat, Trend Micro and Secure Computing.

Garth Bruen, creator of KnujOn, says that if ICANN won’t expand its role to help shutter these illicit sites — which KnujOn and LegitScript now count at 156 selling Schedule III substances — the security industry itself may instead take action of its own.

Some Internet security companies, which he wouldn’t name, are considering blocking the steroid sites themselves in their own Web and email content-filtering products. “They say ‘we’re tired of trying to get a single IP shut down,’ so they are [looking at] shutting off a whole IP range from certain providers — that’s how bad it’s gotten.”

LegitScript.com and KnujOn.com have failed in their attempt to convince GoDaddy of their legal, social and moral obligation to shutdown steroid websites that they have determined are responsible for selling steroids to U.S. residents. GoDaddy responded by refuting claims that steroid websites violate their terms of service.

“Each of the sites in the report have been investigated by our 24×7 abuse department and do not appear to be violating our terms of service. We hope in the future, through reform from Congress, we can easily identify rogue vendors selling drugs illegally,” says a GoDaddy spokesperson.

The apparent next step in their agenda of censoring steroid websites from the internet is appealing to the aforementioned the manufacturers of web content filtering software.