The ACMA has told Australian internet service providers to block six illegal offshore gambling websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Australia.- The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has told Australian internet service providers (ISPs) to\u00a0block 6<\/strong>\u00a0offshore gambling websites<\/strong>. According to the ACMA, the websites were operating in breach of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sites are Pokies Parlour, Ninja Spins, Pokies Online Casino, CasinoAus, Australian Casino Sites and AU Online Casino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Since the ACMA made its first blocking request in November 2019, 426 illegal gambling websites have been blocked while over 160 illegal services have also pulled out of the Australian market since the ACMA started enforcing new illegal offshore gambling rules in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A month ago, the regulator had ordered the\u00a0blocking of 12 offshore gambling websites<\/a>. In November 2021, the ACMA ordered the blocking of\u00a0two illegal offshore lottery websites<\/a>\u00a0for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The ACMA has told Australian internet service providers to block six illegal offshore gambling websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has directed Australian internet service providers to block six additional offshore gambling websites, citing breaches of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. This action is part of an ongoing regulatory enforcement campaign that has seen 426 illegal sites blocked and over 160 services exit the market since 2017, underscoring Australia's stringent stance on unlicensed iGaming operations.","focusai_entities":"ACMA, Pokies Parlour, Ninja Spins, Pokies Online Casino, CasinoAus, Australian Casino Sites, AU Online Casino","focusai_location":"Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.9), investor_analyst (0.8), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"ACMA Blocking Strategy?","query":"What is the ACMA's long-term strategy for mitigating the proliferation of illegal offshore gambling sites beyond IP blocking, and what are the measurable KPIs for its effectiveness?"},{"label":"Impact on Licensed Operators?","query":"How do these ongoing blocking actions by the ACMA demonstrably impact the GGR and NGR of licensed Australian operators by reducing competition from the grey market, and what data supports this correlation?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,439],"tags":[6093,229,23911,4138],"class_list":["post-28385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-legal-news","tag-acma","tag-gambling","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28393,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28385\/revisions\/28393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}