Denmark’s gambling regulator has declared war against international online operators, while unauthorized bingo is getting a hard look in both Denmark and the Netherlands during the coronavirus lockdown.

This week, Denmark’s Spillemyndigheden regulatory agency announced that it had convinced a district court to order local internet service providers to block the domains of 16 online gambling sites serving local punters without the regulator’s permission.

Spillemyndigheden originally targeted 17 domains but one provider withdrew its services from the market prior to the court considering the regulator’s request. The offending sites, which Spillemyndigheden declined to identify, consisted of seven online casinos, seven ‘skin betting’ sites and two online sportsbooks.

Spillemyndigheden began targeting unauthorized sites following the 2012 liberalization of Denmark’s online market, although it has stated that the number of offending sites is “continuously low.” Counting this latest legal massacre, the number of online scalps hanging from the regulatory lodge pole now totals 90.