The Danish Gambling Authority, Spillemyndigheden has been given approval by the Næstved court to request that local internet service providers block access to 83 unlicensed gambling websites.
The sites in question are currently operating illegally in the Danish market and will no longer be accessible following the court ruling. The original request for blocking was made in 2023.
This latest effort to block access to illegal gambling operators breaks the previous record for unlicensed sites blocked in a single year. The previous record was 82 sites which were removed from the Danish market in 2022.
Since the first illegal online gambling blocks were introduced in 2012, Spillemyndigheden has blocked 359 unlicensed gambling websites.
The Danish Gambling Authority’s director Anders Dorph expects more blocks in 2024:
“We have intensified our work to shut down the illegal sites, so that we now get them blocked twice a year instead of once as previously. In this way, we can get hold of even more sites and minimize the period when Danish players are exposed to games that are offered illegally in Denmark.
Children and young people in particular are a vulnerable group. For instance, many of the illegal websites have very lenient requirements for age verification. Some of the sites also offer games that particularly appeal to children and young people, such as skin betting.”
The list of the 83 blocked sites includes:
- paradisecasino.com
- kingbilly.com
- cleopatracasino.com
- 1bet.com
- cobracasino.com
The full list can be viewed here.
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