Casinos outside BetStop in Australia: what the register does and what it does not cover

Updated September 2026

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The Australian Communications and Media Authority reported on 26 June 2026 that 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate websites had been blocked since the first blocking request in November 2019. The same report counted 12 more brands added to the block list in that round alone, including 7Signs, ChromaBet, Donbet, Duospin, Freshbet, Slots Gem, Jacks Club, Lucky Start, Pointsbetz, Spinrise, Vinyl Casino and Wildsino. H2 Gambling Capital, in its 2025 estimates, put annual losses to illegal Australian-facing gambling sites at around A$3.9 billion, with the share of gambling going through legal channels sliding from 74% in 2021 to 64%. Most Australians who type the words behind this page are looking for a way around the very register that those figures describe. The honest answer sits at the top of the article rather than at the bottom: there is no online casino in or out of BetStop that the Australian system licences, and the register itself was never built to reach the offshore brands it is most often searched against.

Currency snapshot as of 24 September 2026, cross-checked against the ACMA register of formal warnings and the National Self-Exclusion Register statistics page.

The landscape of Australian online casino rules

The Interactive Gambling Act 2001, tightened by amendments in 2017 and again in 2023, makes it an offence to provide online casino games, online pokies or in-play betting to a person physically in Australia. No state or territory issues a licence for those products. What is licensable in Australia is wagering on races and sport placed before the event, lotteries and keno, and the bulk of online bookmakers hold Northern Territory licences for tax reasons even when their customers sit in Sydney or Perth. The Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission, which regulates 52 of those operators including Sportsbet, Bet365 and Ladbrokes, runs without any full-time staff and meets once a month in Darwin. The same prohibition is what makes a casino “not on BetStop” a meaningless description of legality — every online casino offered to an Australian is, by definition, outside the system.

What BetStop actually covers, and what it does not

BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register, went live on 21 August 2023 and is administered by the ACMA. Registration is free, takes about five minutes and can be completed at any time at betstop.gov.au. A registrant chooses one of four exclusion periods — three months, six months, twelve months or lifetime — and during that time every Australian-licensed online and phone wagering provider must refuse to let them place a bet, open a new account, or send marketing material. A person can also nominate someone they know to support them through the exclusion.

The line the register draws is a licensing line. BetStop covers “licensed Australian online and phone gambling providers”. An offshore casino holds no Australian licence, so the register has no hold over it. The site is not blocked from registering a player; the deposit is not refused; the marketing keeps arriving. Anyone searching for a casino that does not sit inside BetStop is, in practice, searching for a casino that does not sit inside any Australian consumer-protection system at all.

By 31 July 2026 BetStop had reached 67,480 total registrations in three years, with 41,290 exclusions still active. Seventy-eight per cent of registrants are under 40, and 38 per cent have chosen a lifetime exclusion that cannot be reversed.

The enforcement picture in 2026

The ACMA’s tool is the formal warning first, and an internet-service-provider block second. A formal warning names the operator behind a brand, and a second warning typically triggers a blocking request. Eleven of the brands reviewed further down this page carry at least one formal warning. A repeated pattern shows up: Dama N.V. alone has been warned over Rocketplay (with the Australian-facing site later warned again in March 2026 through a different operator, Pulsup Ltd), Bambet, Dazard, Level Up, Wild Tornado, Cobra Casino, Woo Casino and Spirit Casino across 2022 and 2025. Consolutetish S.R.L. was warned in July 2025 over National Casino and Bizzo Casino, with Bizzo already the subject of a 2022 warning to TechSolutions. EOD Code SRL was warned in February 2025 over Instant Casino; Ryker B.V. in April 2026 over Jackbit and CasinOK; Sterplay Holding Ltd in April 2025 over Casino Intense; Hollycorn N.V. over Sky Crown and Blue Leo in 2022; and Bamboo Media in July 2025 over Ignition Casino.

That the ACMA publishes the operator name and the date alongside the brand is the part that matters for the comparison further down. The brand is what the player sees on the screen; the operator is the entity that holds the licence, runs the cashier, and signs the terms. A brand can be re-skinned or re-licensed; the operator behind it is harder to lose.

What the calculation shows about the block rate

The first Australian blocking request, sent to internet service providers in November 2019, sat at zero blocked sites by definition. By 26 June 2026, the cumulative count stood at 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate marketing websites blocked, with more than 230 unlicensed services having left the market since the 2017 enforcement strengthening. The arithmetic between those two anchors is what a reader searching for casinos outside BetStop is most often missing:

across roughly 80 months, the ACMA averaged a little over 21 new blocks a month, or about one Australian-facing gambling or affiliate site blocked every 36 hours.

Two conditions frame the figure. First, the count includes affiliate marketing sites, not only casino front-ends, so the pure casino-blocking rate sits below the headline. Second, the rate is not steady: it stepped up sharply after 2017 and again after the 2023 amendments that banned credit-card and digital-currency deposits on licensed wagering, and the year ending June 2026 alone added 12 brands. Anyone using the average to predict whether the site they are looking at will be blocked in the next quarter is reasoning from a smoothed line through a steepening curve, and the steepening is the only direction the ACMA’s enforcement record has ever moved.

Responsible options available to an Australian reader

The safer routes around a casino search do not run through offshore sites. They run through the instruments the Australian system actually finances.

The support services that take the question seriously

The National Gambling Helpline, 1800 858 858, runs free, 24/7, with web chat at Gambling Help Online. Counselling is confidential and is not contingent on having registered with BetStop. The helpline and the chat service take calls from people who are still playing, people who have just stopped, family members, and people who have been excluded by a partner and want their own support. The helpline is the right first call when the reason behind the search is the search itself.

The bank-side blocks an Australian can switch on

Westpac’s gambling block works at card level on eligible personal credit and debit cards, refusing any transaction tagged with the merchant category code for betting and casino gambling. ANZ runs the same kind of block in its app and extends it to gambling transactions made through a digital wallet such as Apple Pay on an eligible card, not just the physical card. ANZ’s block, once activated, carries a 48-hour waiting period before it can be turned off again, and the bank is open about the limits: not every gambling transaction is blocked, and a small number of non-gambling transactions get caught in error. The bet-block is an imperfect instrument, and it is the strongest one the customer controls.

What BetStop can and cannot do

BetStop’s exclusions are 3 months, 6 months, 12 months or lifetime. The minimum is three months, an active exclusion can be extended but not shortened, and a lifetime exclusion cannot be reversed. The exclusion only binds the licensed providers it covers, and the support contact nominated at registration is the practical safeguard against the offshore site that does not see the register at all. For a person whose search has been triggered by a recent streak of losses, registering with BetStop is the action that closes the legal route, and the helpline is the action that closes the thinking behind the search.

The comparison: eleven brands the ACMA has named

Each brand in the table below has been the subject of at least one formal ACMA warning under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. None is licensed in any Australian jurisdiction for online casino games, because no jurisdiction licenses them. The table lays out the brand, the warning date, the operator the ACMA named, and whether the subject support the brand itself markets is verified, listed only in third-party sources, or absent. A brand with no entry on the support column sits at the bottom of the table because the marketing claims could not be matched to any of the consulted listings.

The shape of the list is itself a finding. The same operator names — Dama N.V., Consolutetish S.R.L., Hollycorn N.V. — turn up across multiple brands, so a reader who knows one operator here can usually place the rest of its portfolio without further searching. The block the ACMA asks ISPs to impose is also brand-by-brand, which means a block on National Casino does not in itself block Bizzo Casino even though they share an operator. The comparison below is built around the ACMA’s own framing: brand, action, operator, support.

The shortlist side by side

Every brand in the table sits outside the Australian licensing regime by definition, because the regime does not licence online casino games. The column on support tells the reader where the brand’s own claims about payment methods and bank rails could be matched to a third-party listing: where the cell reads “listings only”, the support offered by the brand was reported on third-party pages rather than verified against the brand’s own terms; where the cell reads “no data”, no consulted listing covered it.

RocketPlay

RocketPlay carries two ACMA actions: an earlier warning to Dama N.V. in May 2022 and a fresh warning to Pulsup Ltd over the Australian-facing Rocketplay service in March 2026. The two-year gap between the warnings tells its own story. A rebrand or a new operator shell did not change the underlying offering; the ACMA’s March 2026 action describes the same prohibited product to the same Australian audience under a different corporate wrapper. The support the site markets could be matched only to third-party listings, not to the brand’s own terms. Worth flagging to a reader who reasons that a brand change resets an enforcement history: in this market, the ACMA follows the product.

Level Up Casino

Level Up Casino was named in the May 2022 warning to Dama N.V. that also covered Bambet, Dazard, Wild Tornado and Cobra Casino. It is one of the older entries on the ACMA’s list, which means the warning predates the 2023 amendments that added credit-card and crypto bans on licensed wagering and the 2024 amendments that expanded the ACMA’s blocking power. The site’s marketing could not be matched to third-party listings of the kind consulted here. The comparison point for a reader: Level Up Casino’s prohibition history runs longer than several newer brands, which is the wrong way around for a player who assumes older means more settled.

Woo Casino

Woo Casino was warned in March 2025 under Dama N.V., the same operator that turned up in the May 2022 cohort and again in the May 2025 Spirit Casino warning. Dama N.V. is the most-named operator on the ACMA’s list and the only one whose portfolio includes three of the eleven brands here. Woo Casino’s subject support could not be matched against the listings consulted. The Woo Casino experience, in other words, is shaped by the operator’s wider record rather than by anything specific to the Woo Casino brand, which is a useful frame for any reader treating brand choice as if it were a casino choice.

Spirit Casino

Spirit Casino carries the May 2025 warning to Dama N.V., the most recent Dama N.V. action on the ACMA’s record. The brand sits closer to the present end of the operator’s enforcement history than Woo Casino, which means the warning is fresher and the block request is more likely to be live. The marketing claims on subject support did not match any of the consulted listings. A reader cross-checking Spirit Casino against Woo Casino should not assume the brand-level separation translates into any meaningful separation at the operator level.

National Casino

National Casino was named in the July 2025 warning to Consolutetish S.R.L., alongside Bizzo Casino. National Casino’s subject support was the most verifiable of the eleven, with matches on the ACMA’s own pages, on AUSTRAC, and on BetStop — three regulators and registers rather than a single affiliate source. That combination of citations is unusual for this list and is worth marking: a brand with regulator-side verifiability is a brand whose data points are easier to audit than the rest, which is not the same as saying the brand is safer to play.

Bizzo Casino

Bizzo Casino carries two warnings: the July 2025 one to Consolutetish S.R.L. and a 2022 warning to TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V. The double warning makes Bizzo the only brand on the list whose operator name has changed across its enforcement history, which is the case the ACMA’s operator-publication policy exists to surface. Subject support was listed only in third-party sources. A reader looking at Bizzo is, in effect, looking at the same product across two different corporate lifetimes.

Ignition Casino

Ignition Casino was warned in July 2025 with Bamboo Media named as the operator. The marketing claims did not match any of the consulted listings on subject support, which means the only third-party record the reader has on this brand is the ACMA’s own warning publication. The 2025 date places the warning inside the post-2023 enforcement regime, after the credit-card ban on licensed wagering and after the ACMA’s blocking authority had been broadened.

Instant Casino

Instant Casino carries the February 2025 warning to EOD Code SRL, one of the earlier post-2023 enforcement entries on this list. Subject support was listable from payment-source pages rather than from regulator or register pages. The payment-source angle is worth noting in its own right: a brand that surfaces in a payments provider’s documentation is one whose deposit mechanics have at least been observed by a counterparty, even if the regulator’s view of it is the only authoritative one.

Jackbit

Jackbit was warned in April 2026 with Ryker B.V. named as the operator, alongside CasinOK in the same action. The April 2026 date places Jackbit inside the most recent cohort of warnings, after the August 2026 reform bill was already drafted and before its January 2027 commencement. Subject support could not be matched against the listings consulted. The freshest warning on the list, the operator also fronts a sibling brand under the same action.

Casino Intense

Casino Intense carries the April 2025 warning to Sterplay Holding Ltd. Subject support was listable on regulator and register pages, including AUSTRAC and BetStop. Sterplay Holding Ltd is the only operator on this list whose portfolio is single-brand — every other operator on the table fronts two or more entries — and a single-brand operator is harder to evaluate than a portfolio operator because there is no sister brand to cross-check.

Sky Crown

Sky Crown was warned in September 2022 over Hollycorn N.V., alongside Blue Leo Casino in the same action. The 2022 date makes Sky Crown the oldest warning on the list and the only one that predates the 2023 amendments. Subject support could not be matched. The Hollycorn N.V. portfolio covers at least two of the eleven brands on the table, which is the same portfolio pattern Dama N.V. shows; the reader is again looking at the operator more than at the brand.

What the operator record means for the reader

Three patterns come out of the eleven warnings above. First, the same operators account for most of the brands: Dama N.V. alone covers four entries, Consolutetish S.R.L. covers two, TechSolutions covers one alongside Consolutetish, and Hollycorn N.V. covers two. The handful of operators is doing most of the offering; the long brand list is a long re-skinning of a small operator set. Second, the warnings have accelerated: only one of the eleven was issued before 2023, four sit in 2025, and three more sit in 2026. The enforcement rate that the calculation section measured is a steepening rate, and the steepening shows up inside the eleven as well as across the wider ACMA register. Third, the subject support on most brands is unverifiable against either the brand’s own terms or a regulator’s listing, with only three of the eleven cross-checkable to the ACMA, AUSTRAC or BetStop pages directly. The reader who needs to know what a brand actually offers before depositing has to take most of what the marketing pages say on trust.

The payments a casino not on BetStop cannot legally take from an Australian

The 2023 amendments to the Interactive Gambling Act banned credit cards and credit-related products as payment for any Australian-licensed online wagering, with effect from 11 June 2024 and penalties up to A$247,500 for operators that breach the rule. The rule’s reach extends to digital wallets linked to a credit line, so Apple Pay funding from a credit card sits inside the same prohibition. The Reserve Bank’s July 2025 review proposes removing surcharges only on eftpos, Mastercard and Visa transactions, explicitly leaving American Express outside the scope of the proposed ban — a reminder that American Express still operates as a three-party scheme, issuing and processing its own cards rather than running the four-party network Visa and Mastercard use.

For a licensed Australian wagering service, the legal deposit routes are debit card, bank transfer, PayID through the New Payments Platform (with Osko settling in under a minute across more than 100 Australian financial institutions, 24/7), and BPAY. By the end of 2025, mobile wallet payments through Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay accounted for around 45 per cent of all Australian card payments by number. ANZ’s gambling block, when switched on, also blocks gambling transactions routed through a digital wallet on an eligible card. A site that asks an Australian for a credit-card deposit or a crypto deposit is asking for a payment method the Australian rules forbid the licensed side to take; an offshore site that accepts it is operating entirely outside the Australian rules.

PayID’s design itself gives the payer a small additional check: the name attached to a PayID is shown before the transfer is sent. AP+ has published that being asked to transfer money to a PayID on an illegal gambling site almost certainly means a scam site, which is a stronger statement than any individual warning on this page can manage.

The legal frame in plain terms

A person who plays at one of the brands in the comparison above is not committing an offence under the Interactive Gambling Act. The Act targets the provider, not the individual player. The cost of being on the wrong side of the Act sits with the operator. What the player loses by being there is the consumer protection the Act was built to provide: no Australian complaints body, no recourse if a withdrawal is refused, no guarantee that the ACMA’s next blocking request will not catch the brand with a balance still on it. Gambling winnings of a recreational Australian player are not assessable income and losses are not deductible, except where the ATO treats the activity as a business — a position a casual player is unlikely to meet.

The Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 passed Parliament on 19 August 2026. Its advertising and inducement measures commence on 1 January 2027 — law with a start date, not yet in force on a page published in 2026. The bill is the next reason an offshore casino’s marketing footprint in Australia is going to shrink: inducements aimed at Australian customers are the kind of conduct the new measures target.

The fundamentals a reader should weigh

The subject that drives most searches behind this page — the wish to keep playing through a BetStop exclusion, or to start playing around one — has the same answer regardless of which brand the comparison above is sorted by. BetStop covers the licensed wagering market; the unlicensed casino market is not, and was never going to be, covered by BetStop. A reader who has registered with BetStop, or who is thinking about it, has chosen the Australian system; the Australian system’s answer to an offshore casino is the ACMA warning, the block request, and the unpaid balance if the block arrives mid-session. A reader who has not registered with BetStop and is searching for casinos outside the register for that reason is looking at the same set of eleven brands, none of them licensed in Australia, all of them on the ACMA’s warning list, and most of them backed by a small number of operators running multiple skins.

The register’s purpose, in the ACMA’s own framing, is to give the person who has decided to stop a way to make the decision stick. Where the decision is wavering, the helpline at 1800 858 858 and Gambling Help Online are the supports that are built for exactly that moment. The comparison and the calculation above are written for the reader who already knows the answer; they are not written as a route around it.

Frequently asked questions

What is BetStop and how does it differ from a casino ban?

BetStop is the National Self-Exclusion Register, run by the ACMA since 21 August 2023, and it lets a person block themselves from every Australian-licensed online and phone wagering provider at once. A casino ban is whatever an individual casino sets in its own account tools — BetStop operates across the whole licensed market in one registration rather than brand by brand.

Does BetStop cover offshore online casinos as well as licensed wagering sites?

No. BetStop covers “licensed Australian online and phone gambling providers” and has no hold over a casino that holds no Australian licence. An offshore casino can keep accepting deposits and bets from a person registered with BetStop, because the register’s reach ends at the licensing line the casino never crosses.

How long does it take to register with BetStop?

About five minutes, according to betstop.gov.au, and registration is free and available at any time. The registrant chooses one of four exclusion periods — three months, six months, twelve months or lifetime — and can also nominate a support person.

Can someone remove themselves from BetStop before the minimum period ends?

No. The minimum exclusion is three months, an active exclusion can only be extended (not shortened), and a lifetime exclusion cannot be reversed. The terms sit on the register’s own page.

Where can someone get support if they are worried about their gambling?

The National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858 is free, runs 24/7 and offers confidential counselling, with web chat at Gambling Help Online. The helpline takes calls from people who are still playing, from people who have stopped, and from family members.

Is it legal for any online casino to operate in Australia, on or off the BetStop register?

No. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001 prohibits providing online casino games, online pokies or in-play betting to a person in Australia, and no state or territory licenses them. The BetStop register is a player-protection tool layered on top of the licensed wagering market; it is not, and was never meant to be, a description of which casinos the Australian system permits.

Created by the ”Casino Mobile Hub AU” editorial team.