Casinos outside BetStop in Australia 2026 — the cost a reader pays before they click

Updated September 2026

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Australians searching for a casino not on BetStop are usually trying to get past one of two things: the national self-exclusion register they have already joined, or a marketing email telling them an offshore casino will pay out what a licensed bookmaker will not. Either way the answer is the same, and it is not the answer the search was built to return. Online casino games and online pokies cannot be licensed anywhere in Australia under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, so the entire offshore shortlist this page could line up is, by definition, operating outside Australian law. BetStop itself only binds the operators it can reach, which is licensed Australian wagering — not the offshore casinos the searcher is looking for, and not the offshore casinos named later on this page. The list that follows is therefore not a recommendation. It is a record of who has been warned, by whom and when.

Data current as of 23 September 2026 and verified against the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s published list of formal warnings and blocking requests.

The cost of the shortlist — eleven brands the ACMA has named

Every brand on this page sits here for one reason only: the ACMA itself issued a formal warning over it for offering prohibited interactive gambling services to Australians. That makes the list a record of enforcement, not a comparison shoppers can use the way a comparison of licensed bookmakers can be used. The reader’s choice is between eleven offshore brands, all of them legally identical from the standpoint of Australian law, and all of them warned or named in enforcement actions between 2022 and 2026. The differences between them are not “safer” and “less safe” — they are differences in who runs them, where they are incorporated and how recently the warning was published.

Two things stand out and neither is a reason to pick one over the other. First, the same operator names recur: Dama N.V. sits behind three of the eleven, and Consolutetish S.R.L. sits behind two. The brand a reader sees on a casino’s homepage is rarely the company the ACMA wrote to; rebrands are common, and warnings do not necessarily outlive the URL they were issued against. Second, the date in the table is the date the warning was published, not the date the conduct began. RocketPlay was warned in March 2026 but the same operator had already been named in a 2022 enforcement round, which is a record of persistence rather than a one-off. The table column the page deliberately does not carry is bonus terms. The only sources for those were affiliate marketing pages, and no comparison built on them would tell a reader anything the operator did not write for them to read.

Fundamentals of a market BetStop does not reach

The first thing to settle is what BetStop actually does, because almost every search for a casino not on BetStop is built on a misunderstanding of what the register is. BetStop is the National Self-Exclusion Register, a free Australian Government service that has run since 21 August 2023 and is administered by the ACMA. A person registers once, picks a period of 3 months, 6 months, 12 months or lifetime, and from that moment licensed Australian online and phone wagering providers may not let them place a bet, may not let them open a new account and may not send them marketing. That is the whole mechanism. Registering takes about five minutes and can be done at any time, online or by phone, and a registrant can also nominate a support person to help them through the exclusion.

What BetStop does not do is the part the search misses. It covers only licensed Australian online and phone gambling providers. An offshore casino holds no Australian licence, so it has no obligation to check the register, no system connected to it, and no reason to honour an exclusion a player has placed against themselves. A person who has registered with BetStop and then opens an account at one of the offshore casinos named on this page is not “around” their exclusion — they are in a market the exclusion was never built to reach. The ACMA’s own statistics, taken at the end of July 2026, show 67,480 total BetStop registrations since launch three years earlier, with 41,250 of them active exclusions; 78% of registrants are under 40 and 38% chose a lifetime exclusion. The register is doing what it was designed to do — and what it was designed to do is narrower than the search assumes.

Two pieces of practical plumbing matter once that is understood. The first is minimum exclusion length, which is three months. A registrant cannot shorten an active exclusion; the only option is to extend it, and a lifetime exclusion cannot be reversed. The second is what happens if a player registers while they still have money at an offshore casino. Nothing happens automatically. The offshore operator has no link to BetStop, will not be notified of the exclusion, and the balance sits where it sat. A player who wants that money back has to ask the operator for it under the operator’s own terms, with no Australian complaints body behind the request if the operator says no.

The prohibition that defines the market

The reason the offshore shortlist is what it is sits in one statute. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001, as tightened by the Interactive Gambling Amendment Act 2017, makes it a criminal offence to supply online casino games, online pokies or in-play betting to a person physically in Australia. No state or territory issues a licence for it — none of them can. What can be licensed is wagering on races and sport placed before the event, lotteries and keno; in practice the betting side is licensed by the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission, which regulates 52 of Australia’s online bookmakers including the big three, and which has no full-time staff of its own and meets once a month in Darwin. The individual player is not prosecuted under the IGA; the law aims at the provider. But a reader who plays with an offshore operator gets no Australian consumer protection, no external dispute resolution and no path back to a balance the operator refuses to return, because the operator is outside the system those protections belong to.

Enforcement of the prohibition runs through three channels and they are worth naming because the table further down depends on all three. The first is formal warnings: the ACMA writes to the operator named on the site, sets out the contravention and asks for the Australian offering to be withdrawn. The second is referral to Australian internet service providers, who are then asked to block the domain at the network level. The third is civil penalty proceedings and the threat of them. By the end of June 2026, the ACMA had asked ISPs to block 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate websites since the first blocking request in November 2019, and more than 230 unlicensed services had left the Australian market entirely since enforcement was strengthened in 2017. The most recent round reported on 26 June 2026 named twelve more: 7Signs, ChromaBet, Donbet, Duospin, Freshbet, Slots Gem, Jacks Club, Lucky Start, Pointsbetz, Spinrise, Vinyl Casino and Wildsino. None of those names appears in the table above because the table lists formal warnings, not blocking rounds, and the ACMA publishes the two streams separately.

The cost of the prohibition to the Australian economy, by H2 Gambling Capital’s 2025 estimate, is roughly A$3.9 billion a year lost to illegal gambling sites, with the share of Australian gambling going through legal channels falling from 74% in 2021 to 64% in 2025. That is not a sum the prohibition is collecting for the Treasury — it is a sum the prohibition is failing to redirect to licensed channels, and the gap between the two is what the offshore shortlist is taking from the regulated market.

Payment rails are part of the prohibition and part of what makes it hard to police. Under amendments that took effect on 11 June 2024, Australian-licensed online wagering services cannot accept credit cards or other credit-related products, with penalties of up to $55,000 per offence for individuals and up to $247,500 for bodies corporate. The legal deposit options for an Australian player at a licensed bookmaker are debit card, bank transfer, PayID, Osko and BPAY. A site that asks an Australian for a credit card or a crypto deposit is operating outside the Australian rules; the request itself is a marker the operator is not licensed here. From late 2024 onwards the major Australian banks have layered their own gambling blocks on top: Westpac’s block works at the card level and refuses authorisation of any transaction registered under the merchant category code for betting and casino gambling, ANZ’s block does the same and also covers gambling transactions routed through a digital wallet such as Apple Pay, and removing ANZ’s block carries a 48-hour cooling-off period once it has been turned on. None of these blocks reach an offshore operator that holds no Australian acquiring relationship, which is most of them — they reach the licensed side, and that is the point.

Wellbeing when the register does not reach

The right reading of this page, for a reader who got here because they are trying to get past their own BetStop exclusion, is not “try harder”. It is the opposite. The register was set up on the assumption that some Australians would want to stop themselves from gambling, and that they would do better with a tool than with willpower alone. The fact that the offshore market is outside the tool’s reach is a flaw in the tool’s coverage, not a loophole in the prohibition, and it is a flaw that an offshore casino has no incentive to fix.

The supports that do reach an Australian, regardless of where they have been playing, are free and do not require the player to come off BetStop first. Gambling Help Online runs a 24/7 chat service; the National Gambling Helpline is 1800 858 858, also 24/7, also free. Lifeline is 13 11 14 for anyone in crisis, with or without a gambling trigger. State-based services exist in every jurisdiction and the relevant one is usually the first hit on a search for “gambling help” plus the relevant state name. A reader who has registered with BetStop and is now looking for ways around it has, in plain terms, already identified themselves as someone for whom these services exist. The most useful thing this page can do for that reader is to name them clearly and stop there.

The offshore operator that marketed to an excluded Australian has done something the ACMA considers a contravention of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, which is why every brand on this list carries a formal warning. The player who responded to that marketing is not the ACMA’s target. But the player is the one who pays the price when the site is blocked with a balance still on it, when the operator refuses a withdrawal, when a self-imposed exclusion has been routed around in a way that made the underlying problem worse. The supports above are designed for that player, not for the operator.

The blocking rate — how fast the prohibition is being applied

The single most useful number on this page is not a payout time, a wagering multiple or an RTP. It is the rate at which the ACMA has been asking ISPs to block illegal gambling sites, because it tells a reader how long any specific offshore brand has before the same treatment. The arithmetic is straightforward. The ACMA’s first blocking request was issued in November 2019; the running total of blocked sites stood at 1,751 by the end of June 2026. That is a span of roughly 80 months and an average of just over 21 sites blocked per month, or about 260 per year, or just under five sites per week.

Stated as a band: between roughly 4 and 6 illegal gambling and affiliate sites have been blocked every week since November 2019, on average. The band is wider than the headline number suggests because the cadence has not been even. Some weeks the ACMA publishes a round of ten or twelve sites at once; other weeks the published total moves by zero or one. A reader looking at the date on a formal warning and asking how long the brand has before it is also blocked at the network level should think in months, not years, and should think of the question as one the ACMA decides on a case-by-case basis rather than on a fixed schedule. What the rate does establish is that no warning published this year or last can be treated as the final word on that brand — the record so far has been one of steady, occasionally aggressive, escalation.

The eleven brands the ACMA has named

What is written under each brand below is the record as the ACMA has published it, plus a short note on what stands out about that brand within the wider enforcement picture. No bonus terms are reproduced. No “play here” recommendation is made. The notes end on a verdict the operator’s own profile earns, and the verdicts answer different questions from each other because the brands differ.

RocketPlay — most recent warning on the page

RocketPlay was named in a formal warning published by the ACMA in March 2026, addressed to Pulsup Ltd over RocketPlay. The same brand had already been the subject of a 2022 warning to Dama N.V., which sits behind three of the eleven brands on this page. The persistence is the note: a brand warned in 2022, then again under a different operator name in 2026, is a brand the ACMA has had to write to twice. Verdict: the brand with the longest documented history of being named in Australian enforcement, which is not a record a reader should want to be on the wrong end of.

Level Up Casino — Dama N.V. in its first enforcement round

Level Up Casino sits on the Dama N.V. side of the table and was named in the May 2022 warning that covered six Dama brands at once. It is one of the older names on the page and one of the most rebranded, which is itself a note about how the same operator can reappear under fresh labels after a warning. Verdict: the brand’s identity is effectively interchangeable with any other Dama N.V. site, and its history of renaming merely confirms that the underlying operator remains committed to the Australian market despite the ACMA’s warnings.

Woo Casino — the March 2025 Dama N.V. warning

Woo Casino was named in the March 2025 warning to Dama N.V. alongside Spirit Casino the following May. The two together mark Dama’s return to the ACMA’s formal warning list after a two-year pause, which the regulator publishes separately from its blocking requests and which a reader should not confuse with the two being the same mechanism. Verdict: a brand that shows Dama N.V. did not treat the 2022 warning as a permanent instruction to leave the Australian market.

Spirit Casino — the May 2025 Dama N.V. warning

Spirit Casino is the second of the 2025 Dama warnings. The May 2025 publication is the latest entry on Dama N.V.’s record and there is no later Dama warning in the table. Verdict: the most recent published Dama warning on this page, which means it is also the one where the ACMA’s next move is least predictable — the regulator could escalate to a blocking request, refer the matter for civil penalty proceedings, or wait and watch.

National Casino — Consolutetish S.R.L. in July 2025

National Casino was named in the July 2025 warning to Consolutetish S.R.L. alongside Bizzo Casino. Consolutetish is one of two operator names that appear twice on this page; the other is Dama N.V. Verdict: the operator’s response to formal warnings is to continue business as usual, demonstrating that regulatory notices from the ACMA have not compelled the brand to withdraw its services.

Bizzo Casino — warned twice under two different operators

Bizzo Casino has the longest entry on the table. It was first named in a 2022 formal warning to TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V., then named again in the July 2025 warning to Consolutetish S.R.L. The intervening three years did not result in a change of operator that the ACMA accepted as a fresh start; the regulator simply wrote to whoever was running the brand in 2025 and named the brand again. Verdict: a brand that has outlasted two operators and two warnings, which on a strict reading means the ACMA has now written to two different companies about the same Australian-facing offering.

Ignition Casino — Bamboo Media in July 2025

Ignition Casino was named in the July 2025 warning to Bamboo Media. Bamboo Media does not appear elsewhere on the table, which makes it a one-off operator name rather than a recurring one. Verdict: uniquely on this page, the operator here is named in only one warning, which distinguishes it from the multi-brand groups but does not imply the ACMA considers the brand’s activities any more compliant.

Instant Casino — the February 2025 EOD Code SRL warning

Instant Casino was named in the February 2025 warning to EOD Code SRL, and is the earliest 2025 warning on the page. Verdict: the brand with the longest lead time before any later 2025 action, which means a reader using it now is using a brand the ACMA wrote to about a year and a half ago and has not yet escalated against.

Jackbit — the April 2026 Ryker B.V. warning

Jackbit was named in the April 2026 warning to Ryker B.V., alongside CasinOK in the same round. Ryker B.V. is the most recent new operator name to appear on this page. Verdict: a brand whose operator has the most recent first appearance in the ACMA’s record, which is also the operator with the least Australian-facing history for the regulator to draw on when deciding its next move.

Casino Intense — Sterplay Holding Ltd, April 2025

Casino Intense was named in the April 2025 warning to Sterplay Holding Ltd, the only brand on the page that sits under a Sterplay rather than a Dama, Consolutetish, Bamboo, EOD, Ryker, Hollycorn, TechSolutions or Pulsup identity. Verdict: a brand whose operator name does not appear on any other row, which is also a brand that has not been the subject of a subsequent ACMA action within the period covered.

Sky Crown — the September 2022 Hollycorn N.V. warning

Sky Crown is the oldest formal warning on the page, published by the ACMA against Hollycorn N.V. in September 2022, alongside the related Blue Leo service. It is the only Hollycorn warning in the table. Verdict: the brand with the longest gap between its published warning and the present, which on its own does not tell a reader whether the operator has left the Australian market, stayed quietly, or simply not been re-warned because the regulator chose not to write again.

What to do instead

The most useful thing this page can do for a reader who arrived here intending to find a casino not on BetStop is to be honest about what they are looking at. The offshore shortlist above is the ACMA’s record, not the page’s recommendation. A reader who is on BetStop and wants to stay off gambling has, at the top of this page, named supports that reach them regardless of where they have been playing: Gambling Help Online chat, the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858, and Lifeline on 13 11 14. A reader who is not on BetStop and is looking for a legal Australian wagering option can find licensed bookmakers through the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission’s register; what those bookmakers offer is racing and sports betting, not casino games or pokies, because no Australian jurisdiction licenses casino games online. A reader who wants casino-style games has, in Australia, no legal channel to use, and every offshore site on this page is the result.

Frequently asked questions

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

BetStop is the National Self-Exclusion Register, a free Australian Government service run by the ACMA since 21 August 2023. A person registers, picks an exclusion period of 3 months, 6 months, 12 months or lifetime, and is then blocked from placing bets with licensed Australian online and phone wagering providers, opening new accounts with them and receiving marketing from them. It is a self-imposed exclusion from licensed wagering, not a ban on casinos generally and not a ban on offshore sites, which sit outside its reach by design.

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

No. BetStop is defined by the licensing of the operator it covers. The register applies to licensed Australian online and phone gambling providers, which means the offshore casinos named on this page and the offshore market as a whole sit outside it. The ACMA’s enforcement against offshore sites — formal warnings, blocking requests to ISPs, civil penalty proceedings — is a separate stream of work, and it is what this page documents.

How long does it take to register with BetStop?

About five minutes, according to the register’s own published guidance. Registration can be done online or by phone, at any hour, and there is no waiting period before the exclusion takes effect on the licensed side. A person can also nominate a support contact at the point of registration to help them through the exclusion period.

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

No. The minimum exclusion is three months and cannot be shortened once active. The only option during an exclusion is to extend it, and a lifetime exclusion cannot be reversed at all. A person who finds the three-month minimum too long to commit to can still register for three months and treat that as a starting point, but they cannot come off early.

Where can someone get support if they are worried about their gambling instead of searching for casinos outside BetStop?

Gambling Help Online runs a 24/7 chat service, the National Gambling Helpline is 1800 858 858 (also 24/7 and free), and Lifeline is 13 11 14 for anyone in crisis. State-based gambling help services exist in every Australian state and territory and can be found by searching the state name plus “gambling help”. None of these require a person to be off BetStop, off gambling or off any particular site before they use them.

Created by the ”Casino Sign Up Hub” editorial team.