Casinos not on BetStop in Australia: what the law actually allows, who the ACMA has acted against, and what a reader who came looking for a way around self-exclusion should hear first
Available in USAnyone typing the phrase this page opens on into a search bar is, more often than not, trying to get around a self-exclusion they have already set up. That is the honest reading of the query, and it is the one this page is written against. So the page starts there, and stays there.
[Data current as of 23 September 2026, checked against the BetStop National Self-Exclusion Register.]
Table of Contents
- What BetStop covers, and what it does not
- The legal position: no Australian licence exists for what readers are searching for
- How the prohibition is enforced: the ACMA’s record
- Casinos the ACMA has acted against
- A note on what “casino not on BetStop” actually means in this market
- The blocking rate, since the first request in November 2019
- Payment-side blocks that reach some of these sites even where the network does not
- What BetStop does for someone who is reading this for themselves
- Frequently asked questions
What BetStop covers, and what it does not
BetStop is the National Self-Exclusion Register. It went live on 21 August 2023 and is administered by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. A person registers once, names a single account they want blocked, and every Australian-licensed online and phone wagering provider is then required to refuse their bets, refuse to open any new accounts in their name, and stop sending them marketing.
Registration is quick. The form takes about five minutes and can be done online at any time. A registrant can also nominate someone they know to support them through the exclusion period, which the register describes as a deliberate part of how it is meant to work.
Four exclusion lengths are available: three months, six months, twelve months, or a lifetime exclusion. The minimum is three months. An active exclusion can be extended but not shortened, and a lifetime exclusion cannot be reversed at all. By the end of July 2026, BetStop had passed 67,480 total registrations, with 41,250 of those still active. Three out of every four registrants are under forty, and more than a third chose lifetime exclusion on the first registration.
The part that matters for this page is the phrase the register itself uses to describe its scope: BetStop covers “licensed Australian online and phone gambling providers.” An offshore casino holds no Australian licence. It is not connected to the register, not obligated to honour it, and under no Australian rule required to refuse a person who has signed up.
The legal position: no Australian licence exists for what readers are searching for
Online casino games, online pokies and in-play betting are prohibited interactive gambling services under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 as tightened by the Interactive Gambling Amendment Act 2017. The Act targets the provider, not the player — it is the operator who commits an offence by offering these services to a person in Australia, not the person who places a bet. No state or territory issues a licence for them, and what is licensable (racing and sports wagering placed before the event, lotteries, keno) is licensed by the Northern Territory through the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission, which oversees fifty-two of the country’s online bookmakers from a meeting-room that sits empty most of the month.
The practical consequences for someone playing on an offshore site follow from that absence of a licence. There is no Australian complaints body, no Australian regulator to escalate to, no recourse when a withdrawal is refused. If the site gets blocked by an Australian ISP while the account still holds a balance, the operator is under no Australian obligation to return it. The block sits at the network edge; the money sits behind it.
Credit cards and credit-related products have been banned as a payment method for any Australian-licensed online wagering service since 11 June 2024. Digital currency is banned as well. Legal deposit routes for the wagering services that are licensed are debit card, bank transfer, PayID/Osko and BPAY. Any site that asks an Australian customer for a credit card or a crypto deposit is operating outside the Australian rules by virtue of how it is asking to be paid.
How the prohibition is enforced: the ACMA’s record
The ACMA investigates, issues formal warnings, and asks ISPs to block illegal services at the network edge. The first blocking request was issued in November 2019. By June 2026, the authority had directed ISPs to block 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate marketing websites, and more than 230 unlicensed gambling services had left the Australian market since enforcement was strengthened in 2017.
A single round reported on 26 June 2026 added twelve more domains to the blocked list: 7Signs, ChromaBet, Donbet, Duospin, Freshbet, Slots Gem, Jacks Club, Lucky Start, Pointsbetz, Spinrise, Vinyl Casino and Wildsino. The pattern, viewed across the ACMA’s record, is that offshore casino operators cycle into the Australian market, draw formal warnings, then either leave voluntarily or get blocked. H2 Gambling Capital’s 2025 estimate puts the Australian spend flowing to those unlicensed sites at around A$3.9 billion a year, and notes that the share of gambling going through legal channels fell from seventy-four per cent in 2021 to sixty-four per cent.
The formal warnings the ACMA has issued are themselves a public record. The set on this page covers the operators the authority has named most recently: Pulsup Ltd over Rocketplay in March 2026; Ryker B.V. over Jackbit and CasinOK in April 2026; Consolutetish S.R.L. over National Casino and Bizzo Casino in July 2025; EOD Code SRL over Instant Casino in February 2025; Sterplay Holding Ltd over Casino Intense in April 2025; Dama N.V. over Woo Casino in March 2025 and over Spirit Casino in May 2025; Bamboo Media over Ignition Casino in July 2025; and Hollycorn N.V. over Sky Crown and Blue Leo in 2022. The May 2022 warning to Dama N.V. covered six casino brands at once: Bambet, Dazard, Level Up, Rocketplay, Wild Tornado and Cobra Casinos. Bizzo Casino, named again in 2025, was first the subject of a 2022 warning to TechSolutions Group.
Casinos the ACMA has acted against
Eleven brands sit on the public ACMA warning list in this set, ordered by the date of the most recent warning the authority has published against them. None of them is licensed in Australia, because the category they operate in cannot be licensed in Australia. Each one’s section below sets out who the ACMA named, when, and what licence the operator holds outside Australia — and, where the public record lets it, what one number says about how a person on that brand can move money in and out.
RocketPlay
The ACMA’s most recent formal warning over RocketPlay names Pulsup Ltd, in March 2026. An earlier warning, in May 2022, named Dama N.V. for six brands including Rocketplay. Both warnings are published under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, and both apply to a site that displays a Curaçaçao licence — a licence that has no standing in Australia for the kind of service being offered. No Australian consumer protection applies. The read of the two warnings, taken together, is that the brand has cycled through at least one operator change while continuing to take Australian play; the ACMA has named both the old operator and the new.
Level Up Casino
The ACMA’s May 2022 formal warning to Dama N.V. named Level Up Casino alongside five other brands. The operator has not been the subject of a separate published warning since, which is not the same as the site having left the Australian market — it simply means the ACMA has not added to its file on this brand in the interval. The licence displayed is Curaçaçaon. The warning sits on the public record and the brand remains on the ACMA’s index.
Woo Casino
The ACMA issued a formal warning to Dama N.V. over Woo Casino in March 2025. Woo Casino displays a Curaçaçao licence and operates outside Australia. The warning predates the more recent Dama N.V. warnings of 2026 and sits on the same operator file.
Spirit Casino
The ACMA issued a formal warning to Dama N.V. over Spirit Casino in May 2025. The brand sits in the same operator group as Woo Casino and a handful of the other Dama N.V. brands named in this set, with the same licence posture outside Australia.
National Casino
The ACMA issued a formal warning to Consolutetish S.R.L. over National Casino in July 2025. The brand had not previously appeared on the ACMA’s published warnings. Consolutetish S.R.L. is a separate corporate vehicle from the Dama N.V. set, and the licence National Casino displays is Curaçaçaon.
Bizzo Casino
The ACMA’s July 2025 formal warning to Consolutetish S.R.L. over Bizzo Casino is the second such warning on the brand — a 2022 warning to TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V. is also on the record. Two operators, four years apart, one brand name. The licence displayed remains Curaçaçaon. The read is the same shape as RocketPlay’s, but on a longer cycle.
Ignition Casino
The ACMA issued a formal warning to Bamboo Media over Ignition Casino in July 2025. Bamboo Media is the operator named; Ignition Casino is the brand. The licence posture outside Australia is the same as the rest of the set. The brand has no separate entry on a fresh Australian-facing operator.
Instant Casino
The ACMA issued a formal warning to EOD Code SRL over Instant Casino in February 2025. EOD Code SRL is the named operator. Instant Casino has, since the warning, marketed itself aggressively to Australian-facing traffic via affiliate pages, including deposit routes through digital wallets that Australian banks have explicitly placed gambling blocks on. The warning sits on the ACMA’s record; the marketing has continued.
Jackbit
The ACMA issued a formal warning to Ryker B.V. over Jackbit and CasinOK in April 2026. Jackbit is the crypto-heavy end of the market. The warning is the most recent in the set on this page, and the licence displayed is Curaçaçaon.
Casino Intense
The ACMA issued a formal warning to Sterplay Holding Ltd over Casino Intense in April 2025. Sterplay Holding Ltd is the operator named on the ACMA’s published warning. The licence is Curaçaçaon.
Sky Crown
The ACMA’s formal warning to Hollycorn N.V. over Sky Crown and Blue Leo dates from September 2022. Both brands sit on the same operator. No fresh warning has been published against Hollycorn N.V. in this set, though Hollycorn has been the subject of related ACMA correspondence.
A note on what “casino not on BetStop” actually means in this market
The assumption is that there exists a category of “casinos not on BetStop” the way there exists, say, a category of “bookmakers not on the TAB” — a lawful set of providers, some of whom happen to sit outside a self-exclusion register. The assumption does not hold. There is no set of Australian-licensed online casinos from which BetStop could exclude a person, because there is no set of Australian-licensed online casinos. Every online casino game offered to a person in Australia is, by definition, outside BetStop, because it is prohibited.
What the ACMA’s enforcement record shows is that offshore casinos continue to find Australian players, that Australians continue to spend on them, and that the ACMA’s tools — formal warnings, blocking requests, voluntary-exit letters — work at the provider and the network, not at the player. A player who has registered with BetStop and is searching for a “casino not on BetStop” is searching for a way to keep playing while their own self-exclusion is in force. The honest answer is that BetStop does not reach those sites, the Australian Government does not licence them, and the Australian Government’s enforcement tools work at the network edge rather than at the player.
For someone reading this who came here looking for a recommendation, the page does not offer one. There is no Australian licence behind any of the brands named below, because none can be issued. The page describes what the ACMA has done, what licences the operators display, and what the legal posture is. The judgement about whether to play at any of them is the reader’s own.
The blocking rate, since the first request in November 2019
The ACMA’s first blocking request was issued in November 2019. By the end of June 2026, the authority had directed Australian ISPs to block 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate marketing websites — a figure that includes both casino brands and the affiliate pages that market them. The arithmetic on that period matters because the pace, not just the total, is what tells a reader how the enforcement has accelerated.
Over roughly eighty months between November 2019 and June 2026, 1,751 sites have been added to the blocking list — an average of around twenty-two sites per month across the full period, with the rate climbing sharply in the last two years as the ACMA moved from one-off blocking rounds to scheduled monthly requests. The 26 June 2026 round alone added twelve domains. The pattern that follows from the figure is the practical one: a casino that targets Australian players in 2026 should expect to spend some portion of the year unreachable from an Australian residential ISP, with the balance inside the network edge varying by round.
The blocking rate is a clear indicator of enforcement activity: twenty-two sites a month is the floor, while thirty a month is the ceiling based on the recent pace. The variation depends on the ACMA’s own activity schedule, not on the behaviour of offshore operators.
Payment-side blocks that reach some of these sites even where the network does not
The ACMA’s blocking requests work at the Australian ISP edge. Before a request reaches a site, Australian banks have already put card-level gambling blocks on the same transactions. Westpac’s gambling block refuses authorisation of any transaction registered under the merchant category code “Betting/Casino Gambling” on eligible personal credit and debit cards. ANZ’s gambling block, activated inside the ANZ app, blocks gambling transactions made through a digital wallet such as Apple Pay on an eligible card, not just the physical card; once it is on, removing it requires a forty-eight-hour waiting period.
Both banks warn that not every gambling transaction will be blocked — the merchant category code is the trigger, and not every offshore casino’s acquiring bank routes under it — and that some non-gambling transactions might be blocked in error. The Reserve Bank’s July 2025 review proposes removing surcharges only on eftpos, Mastercard and Visa transactions, leaving American Express outside the scope of the proposed ban. Around forty-five per cent of all card payments in Australia by number went through mobile wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay and Samsung Pay) by the end of 2025, which is the share of payments that are reachable by an ANZ-style wallet-level block.
For PayID and Osko transfers the picture is different. With Osko, a bank transfer between participating Australian banks arrives in under a minute, twenty-four hours a day. Paying to a PayID shows the name of the account holder before the transfer is sent — the operator of the New Payments Platform warns explicitly that being asked to transfer money to a PayID on an illegal gambling site almost certainly means a scam site. More than twenty-five million PayIDs had been registered on the platform by April 2025; more than a hundred Australian financial institutions offer instant transfers through it.
The legal deposit routes for Australian-licensed wagering — debit card, bank transfer, PayID/Osko and BPAY — are the routes that an Australian-licensed bookmaker can take. For an offshore casino, none of these are guaranteed to be reachable from an Australian bank account once that bank’s gambling block is on, and a casino that asks for a credit card or a crypto deposit is asking for a payment method that has been prohibited for licensed Australian wagering since 11 June 2024.
What BetStop does for someone who is reading this for themselves
A person who has registered with BetStop and is reading this page is, by definition, someone who has already chosen to be excluded from Australian-licensed wagering and is looking for a path around it. The honest thing to say to that reader is that the offshore casino market is exactly the gap that BetStop cannot close — it is the part of the market that no Australian rule reaches.
If the goal is to keep that exclusion in force, the relevant supports are not casinos. BetStop itself extends an active exclusion but cannot shorten it, and a lifetime exclusion cannot be reversed. The National Gambling Helpline (1800 858 858) is free and twenty-four hours a day, with chat available through Gambling Help Online. The Helpline is the route a person in this position should use before opening a fresh browser tab.
If the goal is instead to play casino games, the legal answer in Australia is that there is no Australian licence for online casino games, and there is no offshore site on which an Australian player can play with the protections that come with a domestic licence. The eleven brands on this page are the ACMA’s published-warning set, and the warning is itself the closest thing to an Australian position on each of them.
Frequently asked questions
What is BetStop, and how is it different from a casino ban?
BetStop is the National Self-Exclusion Register, administered by the ACMA and live since 21 August 2023. Registering takes around five minutes; once registered, a person is blocked by every Australian-licensed online and phone wagering provider from placing bets, opening new accounts and receiving marketing. A casino ban is what a single operator imposes on its own customer, against that operator’s own products; BetStop covers every Australian-licensed provider at once.
Does BetStop also cover offshore online casinos?
No. BetStop binds Australian-licensed providers only, and online casinos cannot be licensed in Australia. Every offshore casino is, by definition, outside the register’s reach — which is the structural reason “casino not on BetStop” is a category that exists in the first place. The Australian Government’s response to offshore casino play runs through the ACMA’s enforcement record, not through BetStop.
How long does BetStop registration take?
Around five minutes for the online form, and it can be done at any time. The exclusion itself then runs for the period the registrant chose: three months, six months, twelve months, or a lifetime exclusion. The minimum is three months, and an active exclusion can be extended but not shortened.
Can a person remove themselves from BetStop before the minimum period ends?
No. An active BetStop exclusion can be extended, but not shortened, and a lifetime exclusion cannot be reversed at all. This is the part of BetStop’s design that the page draws attention to for a reader who came here looking for a way around an existing exclusion.
Where can a person get support if gambling has become a worry?
The National Gambling Helpline is 1800 858 858, free and available twenty-four hours a day. Chat support is available through Gambling Help Online. Both are Australian Government services aimed at the person, not at the offshore market, and both are the right route for someone reading this page who came looking for a way around their own exclusion.
Is any online casino legal to operate in Australia, whether or not it is on BetStop?
No. Online casino games, online pokies and in-play betting are prohibited interactive gambling services under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, and no Australian jurisdiction issues a licence for them. What is licensable is wagering on racing and sport placed before the event, lotteries and keno. The Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026 passed Parliament on 19 August 2026, but its advertising and inducement measures commence on 1 January 2027 and are not yet in force on a 2026 page.
Written by the editors at Casino Venues Info.
