Switzerland’s online gambling blacklist continues to grow, including one site that appears to be piggybacking on the name of a locally licensed online casino.
On Tuesday, Switzerland’s federal gaming board (ESBK) issued the latest update of the nation’s blacklist of unauthorized international online gambling domains catering to local punters without local permission. There are 35 new additions, bringing the cumulative total to a healthy 285 uninvited and very much unwelcome domains.
As usual, most of the fresh faces are bog-standard Curacao-licensed online casinos, including several number-prefixed mirrors of the same operators, some of which had previously been honored with a spot on ESBK’s naughty list.
There is at least one slightly more recognizable domain, namely cryptocurrency-based sportsbook Sportsbet.io, which has official betting partnerships with several UK football clubs and whose logo can be found on the jerseys of Southampton FC and Watford FC.