What an Australian reader actually meets when they search for a casino not on BetStop

Updated September 2026

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A reader who lands on this page is usually looking for one of two things. Either they want to understand why a casino they have already seen advertised is not on the National Self-Exclusion Register, or they are weighing whether to keep playing at one. Both questions deserve a straight answer, and the straight answer is uncomfortable: BetStop does not cover offshore online casinos because BetStop only binds Australian-licensed wagering, and no Australian licence exists for online casino games. A casino that is not on BetStop is, almost always, a casino operating outside Australian law altogether. The Australian Communications and Media Authority has acted against every brand named further down this page, and the rest of the article lays out what that means in plain numbers.

Data current as of 24 September 2026, checked against the ACMA’s published enforcement record and BetStop’s published terms.

The shape of the gap, and why it exists at all

The mental model most searchers carry into this topic is wrong in one specific way. They assume BetStop is a blacklist that an offshore casino has simply failed to join, the way a bar might fail to join a no-fly list. It is not. BetStop is a self-exclusion register, but it is a register for licensed Australian providers, and the reason an offshore casino never appears in it is that it has no Australian licence to begin with. There is no queue to skip.

The Interactive Gambling Act 2001, as tightened by the Interactive Gambling Amendment Act 2017, makes it an offence to provide online casino games, online pokies and in-play betting to anyone in Australia. No state or territory issues a licence for these products. The only gambling products an Australian licence can cover are pre-event wagering on racing and sport, lotteries and keno, and most licensed bookmakers — including Sportsbet, Bet365 and Ladbrokes — sit under the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission. The commission has no full-time staff and meets once a month in Darwin. What that produces in practice is a market where wagering is regulated and online casino is, by statute, prohibited.

BetStop launched on 21 August 2023 and is administered by the ACMA. As of 31 July 2026, 67,480 Australians had registered with the scheme and 41,290 exclusions were active. The minimum exclusion is three months, and the available periods are three months, six months, twelve months or lifetime. A registrant can extend an active exclusion but cannot shorten it; a lifetime exclusion cannot be reversed. Seventy-eight per cent of registrants are under forty, and thirty-eight per cent have chosen lifetime exclusion.

Those figures belong to people who chose to step away. They do not describe what happens at an offshore site, where no equivalent record exists.

What an offshore casino is, in legal terms

When an offshore casino accepts an Australian customer, it is offering a prohibited interactive gambling service. The IGA targets the provider, not the individual player — Australian readers are not prosecuted for placing a bet. What they give up in return is every protection an Australian licence would otherwise guarantee: no complaints body, no recourse if a withdrawal is refused, no obligation on the operator to honour a self-exclusion request, and no guarantee the site will still be reachable next week. The ACMA can, and does, direct Australian internet service providers to block these sites, and a blocked site can leave a real-money balance behind it.

The marker on the page is unambiguous: online casino games cannot be licensed anywhere in Australia, whatever licence the site displays. A Curaçao or Anjouan registration at the foot of an offshore homepage is not an Australian licence.

How big the enforcement record actually is

The ACMA first asked Australian ISPs to block an illegal gambling site in November 2019. As of June 2026, the running total sits at 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate marketing websites blocked since that first request, and more than 230 unlicensed services have left the Australian market since enforcement was stepped up in 2017. In the round reported on 26 June 2026 alone, twelve further sites were added to the block list: 7Signs, ChromaBet, Donbet, Duospin, Freshbet, Slots Gem, Jacks Club, Lucky Start, Pointsbetz, Spinrise, Vinyl Casino and Wildsino.

The H2 Gambling Capital 2025 report estimates Australians lose about A$3.9 billion a year to illegal gambling sites, and the share of gambling spend going through legal channels fell from 74 per cent in 2021 to 64 per cent. The gap is not closing on its own.

Prohibition, and how the ACMA applies it

The ACMA’s enforcement tools are three: investigation, formal warning, and the direction to ISPs to block a site at the DNS level. Formal warnings are published on the regulator’s site and name the operating company, the brand and the date. They are the public part of the record, and they are the basis for every operator named below.

A formal warning is not a fine, and it is not a prosecution. It is a written notice that the regulator considers a service to be in breach of the IGA, and a record that the operator was put on notice. After a warning, the ACMA can escalate to a blocking request, to civil penalties, or to referral to the Australian Federal Police. Repeat offenders across multiple brands are common, and several of the operating companies below appear more than once in the warnings list.

Why offshore sites keep reappearing under new names

The same operating companies routinely relaunch under new brand labels after a block or a warning. Dama N.V. was warned in May 2022 over six casino brands — Bambet, Dazard, Level Up, Rocketplay, Wild Tornado and Cobra Casinos — and the same operator was warned again in March 2025 over Woo Casino and in May 2025 over Spirit Casino. The names change. The operator does not. Consolutetish S.R.L. was warned in July 2025 over both National Casino and Bizzo Casino, the latter having already been the subject of a 2022 warning to TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V. The pattern is consistent enough that a reader who knows one brand from a warning list can usually guess which other brands the same company runs.

A short summary of the ACMA’s published actions on the brands covered below:

• March 2026 — Pulsup Ltd over Rocketplay
• May 2022 — Dama N.V. over Bambet, Dazard, Level Up, Rocketplay, Wild Tornado and Cobra Casinos
• March 2025 — Dama N.V. over Woo Casino
• May 2025 — Dama N.V. over Spirit Casino
• July 2025 — Bamboo Media over Ignition Casino
• July 2025 — Consolutetish S.R.L. over National Casino and Bizzo Casino (Bizzo also subject of a 2022 warning to TechSolutions)
• February 2025 — EOD Code SRL over Instant Casino
• April 2026 — Ryker B.V. over Jackbit and CasinOK
• April 2025 — Sterplay Holding Ltd over Casino Intense
• 2022 — Hollycorn N.V. over Sky Crown and Blue Leo

None of those dates is in dispute. Each is the date the ACMA published the formal warning.

How fast the blocklist is actually growing

Take the running total published in June 2026 — 1,751 sites blocked since the first blocking request in November 2019 — and divide it across the months that have elapsed. From November 2019 to June 2026 is roughly 79 months, which puts the average rate of blocking at somewhere between 22 and 23 sites per month, or just over 260 a year. Stated as a band rather than a single figure, the ACMA has been adding illegal gambling and affiliate marketing sites to the block list at a pace of roughly 22 to 23 a month since enforcement began, and the pace has not slowed materially in the most recent reporting rounds.

What that band hides is variation round to round. Some months bring twelve, some bring none publicly reported, and a single round in 2026 added twelve on its own. The average is a useful baseline; it is not a forecast. A site that has not yet been warned is not, on that basis alone, safe — the ACMA’s investigations are not published in advance.

What player protection actually looks like offshore, and what it does not

The promise most readers bring to offshore casino play is that the site has its own safety tools — deposit caps, time-outs, self-exclusion. Some do, in the sense that the buttons exist. None of them are enforceable by an Australian regulator, none of them carry an Australian complaints body behind them, and a withdrawal the operator decides to delay is a withdrawal the player has limited power to challenge.

BetStop, by contrast, is enforceable because it is wired into the licensed providers’ account-opening and bet-acceptance systems. Once a person registers, licensed Australian online and phone gambling providers may not let them place a bet, may not let them open new betting accounts, and may not send them marketing messages. The provider checks the register at sign-up and at login. A registrant can also nominate someone they know to support them during the exclusion. None of that machinery touches an offshore site.

For anyone reading this who is weighing whether to keep playing offshore, the practical options are:

• Register with BetStop. It takes about five minutes, it is free, and it binds every Australian-licensed wagering provider in one step. Offshore sites are outside it, but the registered portion of the market closes immediately.
• Talk to a support service. Gambling Help Online (chat available) and the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858 are free, 24/7 and confidential. The helpline is the route to counsellors, not to a recommendation for an offshore site.
• Use the bank-level blocks that already exist. Westpac’s gambling block refuses authorisation on transactions carrying the merchant category code ‘Betting/Casino Gambling’ on eligible personal credit and debit cards. ANZ’s equivalent, activated in the ANZ app, also blocks gambling transactions made through a digital wallet on an eligible card, not just the physical card. Removing the ANZ block requires a 48-hour waiting period, and the bank warns that not every gambling transaction will be blocked and some non-gambling transactions might be blocked in error.

These tools do not solve the offshore gap. They close down the parts of the gap that an Australian reader can actually close.

How the payment rails change once a casino is offshore

A licensed Australian wagering provider cannot accept a credit card, a credit-related product or digital currency as payment, a restriction in force since 11 June 2024 with penalties up to $247,500 for operators. The legal deposit routes are debit card, bank transfer, PayID/Osko and BPAY. An offshore site will typically accept all of those and more, including crypto, e-wallets and various card schemes, and that is one of the reasons players end up there. The payment-method freedom, however, sits on top of an unregulated operator, not beside an Australian one.

A few specifics matter for an Australian reader weighing the rail:

• Osko by BPAY moves a bank transfer between participating Australian banks in under a minute, 24/7 including weekends, addressed either to a BSB and account number or to a PayID. Over 100 Australian financial institutions offer PayID-based instant transfers.
• PayID names the account holder before the transfer is sent. AP+ warns that being asked to transfer money to a PayID on an illegal gambling site almost certainly means a scam site.
• Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay accounted for around 45 per cent of all card payments in Australia by number by the end of 2025. Apple does not charge consumers a fee to use Apple Pay; any surcharge is the merchant’s card-processing fee, not Apple’s. Transaction limits and PIN requirements for Apple Pay are set by the card issuer or the merchant, not by Apple.
• The credit-card ban reaches the wallet. ANZ’s gambling block also blocks gambling transactions made through a digital wallet on an eligible card, and the IGA’s credit-card prohibition applies to the underlying funding source.
• American Express is outside the proposed surcharge ban. The Reserve Bank of Australia’s July 2025 review proposes removing surcharges only on eftpos, Mastercard and Visa transactions, leaving American Express outside the scope of the proposed ban. Amex’s three-party model — it issues cards and processes transactions itself — sits outside the four-party model Visa and Mastercard run.

The rail the reader is on does not change what the operator is. Paying an offshore casino through PayID does not convert the casino into an Australian licensee. The protection the reader is missing is on the operator side, not on the rails.

The 11 brands the ACMA has acted against, and the cost of using them

The list below is not a recommendation. Every brand here was the subject of a formal warning from the ACMA for offering prohibited interactive gambling services to Australians. Some appear with payment-related listings that Australian comparison sites have published; where those listings exist, the description below draws on what they say, never on what the operator itself claims. Where the ACMA has only the warning and the operator’s name on file, the write-up stops at the warning.

The point of the table is to show what the ACMA has done, who it named, and which payment subjects the public listings connect to each brand. A blank cell is not an endorsement of the missing subject. It is a hole in the public record.

The columns this site picked are not the only ones that could be drawn. A different write-up could lead with the licence the operator displays at the foot of its homepage; this one leads with the ACMA record because that is the part of the picture that is enforceable.

RocketPlay

Pulsup Ltd drew a formal warning from the ACMA in March 2026 over Rocketplay. The same brand sits in the ACMA’s earlier May 2022 warning to Dama N.V., which also covered Bambet, Dazard, Level Up, Wild Tornado and Cobra Casinos. A reader comparing Australian-facing casinos will see Rocketplay listed on affiliate marketing pages; what those pages do not say is that the regulator considers the offering itself unlawful. The cost is not a fee or a fine — it is the absence of any Australian recourse if a withdrawal stalls, and the standing possibility that the next ACMA round will direct ISPs to block the domain.

Level Up Casino

Dama N.V. was warned in May 2022 over Level Up, alongside five sister brands. The same operating company surfaced again in 2025 over Woo Casino and Spirit Casino, which makes the underlying operator easier to identify than the brand itself. The category of transaction the brand accepts — casino gambling — is the category Westpac’s card-level block refuses to authorise on eligible cards. The cost to a player who uses a Westpac card is therefore not theoretical: the transaction will be declined, which is the bank’s protection working as designed, but it also makes the brand difficult to fund from an Australian account without an alternative rail.

Woo Casino

Dama N.V. picked up a fresh formal warning in March 2025 over Woo Casino, three years after the May 2022 warning that covered its original six-brand portfolio. The recurring pattern — operator warned, brand retired or added, warning reissued — is the structural reason a reader who knows one brand from the ACMA list can usually guess the next. The relevant cost here is the same one that runs through the whole list: no Australian licence, no Australian complaints body, and no guarantee the site will remain reachable in a year’s time.

Spirit Casino

Dama N.V.’s May 2025 warning over Spirit Casino is the third entry on the ACMA’s record for this operator in three years. The pattern, by this point, is the point. A reader who takes the brand’s homepage at face value is reading marketing copy from an operator the regulator has repeatedly put on notice.

National Casino

Consolutetish S.R.L. drew a July 2025 formal warning over National Casino, and the same warning also named Bizzo Casino. National Casino appears in the public listings that the ACMA, AUSTRAC and BetStop all maintain for this category of provider. For a reader, that means the brand is recognisable across the three Australian registers that touch offshore gambling — but recognisable here is not the same as legitimate, and the ACMA’s record sits on top of the listing, not behind it.

Bizzo Casino

Consolutetish S.R.L.’s July 2025 warning over Bizzo Casino is the second warning the brand has attracted; TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V. were warned in 2022 over the same site. A brand that has been warned twice is not a brand that has adjusted. The recurring exposure to formal warning is itself information.

Ignition Casino

Bamboo Media drew a formal warning in July 2025 over Ignition Casino. The brand is one of the better-known offshore-facing names among Australian search traffic, and that familiarity is the trap: a brand readers have heard of is not, in this market, a brand the regulator has cleared.

Instant Casino

EOD Code SRL was warned in February 2025 over Instant Casino. Public listings for the brand mention ecoPayz and PayID among its accepted payment methods, which makes the funding side straightforward from Australia — and that ease is part of what makes the gap costly. A rail that makes depositing easy does the same for the player’s money on the way out, and an offshore operator with no Australian obligation to process withdrawals has no incentive to be fast about it.

Jackbit

Ryker B.V. was warned in April 2026 over Jackbit and CasinOK. The brand sits in the most recent ACMA reporting rounds, which is to say it is current, and the cost to a player is the same as for any other brand on the list — only the name changes.

Casino Intense

Sterplay Holding Ltd drew a formal warning in April 2025 over Casino Intense. The brand appears in the public listings maintained by AUSTRAC, BetStop and gamblinginsider, all of which reference the category of provider rather than endorsing the brand. None of those listings converts the offering into a licensed one.

Sky Crown

Hollycorn N.V. was the subject of a 2022 formal warning covering Sky Crown and Blue Leo. It is the oldest warning on this list, and the brand’s continued operation under a new operator-controlled label — Hollycorn runs several offshore-facing brands — is the part of the record readers most often miss. The warning is six years old; the prohibition is current.

What a player should weigh before any of these

The arithmetic is not subtle. Offshore casino games cannot be licensed in Australia. BetStop only binds Australian licensees. An Australian player using an offshore site has no Australian regulator behind them, no Australian complaints body, and no enforceable self-exclusion if they decide they need one. The ACMA’s enforcement record shows that warning, blocking and re-warning are the regulator’s normal cycle for this market, and that operating companies commonly run several brands in parallel.

The cost of using one of these brands is not a single fee a player can price in advance. It is a set of missing protections: missing recourse on a refused withdrawal, missing recourse on a closed account with a balance attached, missing recourse on an induced marketing message after a self-exclusion request, and the standing risk that the next block round leaves the site unreachable with money on it. None of those risks is hypothetical. Each is the kind of outcome the ACMA’s published enforcement history exists to record.

For a reader who has registered with BetStop and is looking for a way around their own exclusion: the gap is not a loophole to exploit, it is a gap to close. Registering took five minutes the first time. Extending an exclusion is a one-step process. Gambling Help Online and 1800 858 858 are free and 24/7. The National Gambling Helpline is the route to a counsellor, not to a recommendation for an offshore site.

What changes next, and what does not

The Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 passed Parliament on 19 August 2026. Its advertising and inducement measures commence on 1 January 2027, which means the law is passed but not in force on a page read in 2026. What that introduces, once it commences, is a tighter Australian frame on how operators — licensed and offshore — market to Australians. It does not change the underlying prohibition on online casino games, which remains in force regardless of the bill.

What does not change, on any timetable, is the standing legal position. Online casino games cannot be licensed in Australia. BetStop only binds Australian licensees. An offshore casino is outside the register because it has no Australian licence to register against. The reader who understands that gap before depositing is the reader who has understood the market as it actually is.

Reference summary

A compact recap of the figures and the dates that anchor this page:

• 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate marketing websites blocked since the first blocking request in November 2019 (ACMA, June 2026).
• More than 230 unlicensed gambling services have left the Australian market since 2017.
• Twelve sites added in the round reported on 26 June 2026: 7Signs, ChromaBet, Donbet, Duospin, Freshbet, Slots Gem, Jacks Club, Lucky Start, Pointsbetz, Spinrise, Vinyl Casino, Wildsino.
• Australians lose an estimated A$3.9 billion a year to illegal gambling sites (H2 Gambling Capital, 2025); legal-channel share fell from 74 per cent in 2021 to 64 per cent.
• The Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission regulates 52 of Australia’s online bookmakers, including Sportsbet, Bet365 and Ladbrokes; the commission has no full-time staff.
• BetStop launched 21 August 2023, administered by the ACMA.
• 67,480 total BetStop registrations as of 31 July 2026; 41,290 active exclusions; 78 per cent of registrants under 40; 38 per cent lifetime.
• Exclusion periods: 3 months, 6 months, 12 months or lifetime; minimum 3 months; cannot shorten an active exclusion; lifetime cannot be reversed.
• Credit, credit-related products and digital currency banned as payment for licensed wagering since 11 June 2024; operator penalties up to $247,500.
• Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay accounted for around 45 per cent of all card payments in Australia by number by end-2025.
• New Payments Platform live since 13 February 2018; over 25 million PayID identifiers registered by April 2025; more than 100 Australian financial institutions offer PayID-based instant transfers.
• The Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 passed Parliament 19 August 2026; advertising and inducement measures commence 1 January 2027.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is BetStop a casino ban?

BetStop is a free self-exclusion register for licensed Australian online and phone wagering providers, not a casino ban. It launched on 21 August 2023 and is administered by the ACMA. Registering takes about five minutes. Once registered, Australian-licensed bookmakers cannot let the person place a bet, open a new account or receive marketing. It does not cover offshore online casinos, because those sites hold no Australian licence and are outside the register by design.

Does BetStop stop offshore casinos from accepting me?

No. BetStop only binds Australian-licensed online and phone wagering providers. An offshore casino is not connected to the scheme because it is not licensed in Australia. The IGA makes offering online casino games to Australians an offence at the provider end, but the ACMA’s tools are warnings, blocking requests and civil penalties — not a per-player ban list that follows the customer across the border.

How long does BetStop registration take, and how long does it last?

Registration takes about five minutes. Once active, the exclusion lasts a minimum of three months, with options for six months, twelve months or lifetime. An active exclusion can be extended but not shortened, and a lifetime exclusion cannot be reversed. As of 31 July 2026, 38 per cent of registrants had chosen lifetime exclusion.

Can a player remove themselves from BetStop early?

Not during an active exclusion. A person who has registered for three, six or twelve months cannot shorten that period, and a lifetime exclusion cannot be reversed at all. The only way to resume licensed wagering is to let the chosen period expire or, for a lifetime exclusion, to accept it as permanent.

Where is the right place to get help for a gambling problem?

The National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858 is free and 24/7, and Gambling Help Online offers chat. Both routes go to counsellors. Lifeline is on 13 11 14. For a reader who is searching this topic because they want to stop, those numbers are the answer. For a reader who is searching it because they want to keep playing outside BetStop, the underlying answer is the same: BetStop is the lever that binds every Australian-licensed wagering provider, registration is free and takes five minutes, and extending an exclusion is one step.

Could any online casino be legal in Australia?

Online casino games, online pokies and in-play betting cannot be licensed in Australia. What can be licensed is pre-event wagering on racing and sport, lotteries and keno. An offshore site displaying a Curaçao or Anjouan registration at the foot of its homepage is not licensed in Australia and cannot be, because no Australian licence covers the products it offers.

Created by the ”Casino Providers Info” editorial team.