Aussie list bags 800 gaming sites in new ban list

UK online bingo games operators and online bingo halls might be interested in the latest list of banned gambling web pages issued by the Australian government in their efforts to crack down on sites 'unsuitable for public consumption'.

With many UK online bingo sites open to Australian customers, it is possible some sites may have been targeted by the Australian list which has caught a fair number of industry people by surprise.

Reports say the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued a blacklist of approximately 800 hundred web pages to Australian ISPs as well as to certain content filtering companies.  The new list comes about three months after a similar list was given to service providers.

"We asked ACMA what was going on and were told that these were illegal gambling websites that had been identified by the federal Government as inappropriate," an industry source was quoted as saying. "We had never received two lists before, so that caused some confusion."

ACMA clarified that the extra list was related to a large amount of complaints about illegal gambling sites last October and that these were only resolved later.

Australians that play online bingo games account for a small amount of the UK online bingo customer base with many Australian players choosing to play at Australian operated sites instead.