{"id":777010572,"date":"2023-10-25T06:39:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T09:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777010572"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:50:45","slug":"acma-blocks-2-more-illegal-offshore-gambling-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/acma-blocks-2-more-illegal-offshore-gambling-websites","title":{"rendered":"ACMA blocks 2 more illegal offshore gambling websites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Australian regulator has blocked the websites under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.-<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>The <strong>Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)\u00a0<\/strong>has issued a request for Australian internet service providers (ISPs) to<strong>\u00a0block two additional gambling websites<\/strong> citing violations of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.\u00a0The sites are Wild Blaster and BetUS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ACMA blocks sites that offer <strong>unlicensed interactive gambling services<\/strong>\u00a0or publish advertisements for prohibited services. Since its first blocking request in November 2019, it has\u00a0blocked 863 sites. It claims a further 218 illicit sites have voluntarily exited the Australian market since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/australia-almost-10000-people-register-with-betstop-in-first-two-months\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Australia: almost 10,000 people register with BetStop in first two months<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian regulator has blocked the websites under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.<\/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 ISPs to block two additional unlicensed gambling websites, Wild Blaster and BetUS, under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. This action is part of ACMA's ongoing enforcement, bringing the total blocked sites to 863 since November 2019, with a further 218 illicit sites voluntarily exiting the market since 2017.","focusai_entities":"Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), Wild Blaster, BetUS","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 (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"ACMA Enforcement Strategy?","query":"What is the ACMA's long-term strategy for combating offshore unlicensed operators, and how do these blocking actions integrate with broader regulatory compliance and governance frameworks?"},{"label":"Impact on Licensed GGR?","query":"How do these ongoing blocking actions by ACMA quantitatively impact the Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) and Net Gaming Revenue (NGR) potential for licensed iGaming operators within the Australian market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156,158],"tags":[6093],"class_list":["post-777010572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-acma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777010572","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=777010572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777010572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777041086,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777010572\/revisions\/777041086"}],"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=777010572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777010572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777010572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}