All of the casinos are also unreachable from the UK due to location blocks, except for Comic Play Casino. Several of the sites in breach offer online gambling with cryptocurrencies.
Comic Play Casino offers Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum as payment options, for example.
Online casino is not a regulated gambling vertical in Australia.
Since the ACMA made its first blocking request, 835 illegal gambling and affiliate websites have been blocked, while 215 illegal services have pulled out of the Australian market since the regulator started enforcing new offshore gambling rules in 2017.Website blocking is one of a range of enforcement options used by ACMA to protect Australians against offshore online gambling.
Action is usually taken when a website is providing prohibited interactive gambling services to customers in Australia, such as online casino, or when gambling services are not protected by domestic laws.
Many of the sites prohibited by ACMA are licensed in Curaçao.
Earlier this year, the authority reached out to Curaçao finance minister Javier Silvania in an effort to prevent the island’s licensed operators from targeting Australian players.
