The ACMA has ordered Australian internet service providers to immediately block 10 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 10<\/strong>\u00a0offshore gambling websites\u00a0<\/strong>for operating in breach of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sites are Stay Casino, Bambet, Dazard Casino, Level Up Casino, Rocketplay Casino, Wild Tornado Casino, Cobra Casino, Cobra Bet, Casinority, Pokies Lab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some 481 illegal gambling websites have been blocked\u00a0<\/strong>since the ACMA made its first blocking request in November 2019. ACMA says 160 illegal services have pulled out of the Australian market since it started enforcing illegal offshore gambling rules in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In March, the regulator had ordered the\u00a0blocking of six 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 ordered Australian internet service providers to immediately block 10 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 (ISPs) to block 10 additional illegal offshore gambling websites, citing breaches of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. This action brings the total number of blocked sites to 481 since November 2019, with 160 illegal services having exited the Australian market since enforcement began in 2017. The ongoing regulatory crackdown aims to protect consumers and uphold the integrity of the licensed iGaming sector.","focusai_entities":"Australian Communications and Media Authority, ACMA, Stay Casino, Bambet, Dazard Casino, Level Up Casino, Rocketplay Casino, Wild Tornado Casino, Cobra Casino, Cobra Bet, Casinority, Pokies Lab","focusai_location":"Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.8), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"ACMA blocking efficacy?","query":"What is the quantifiable impact of ACMA's blocking requests on the overall GGR of the Australian iGaming market, specifically regarding the shift from offshore to regulated operators?"},{"label":"Regulatory framework evolution?","query":"How might the ACMA's continued aggressive enforcement of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 influence future amendments or expansions of Australia's iGaming regulatory and governance frameworks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,439],"tags":[6093],"class_list":["post-30203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-legal-news","tag-acma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30203","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=30203"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30230,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30203\/revisions\/30230"}],"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=30203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}