Denmark Adds 98 Gambling Sites to National Block List
Spillemyndigheden announced the case on August 19. The court approved the latest group of blocks on July 8. The sites were offering gambling to Danish players without the licence required to operate in the market.
Blocking Starts With a Warning
When Spillemyndigheden identifies a site it believes is operating illegally, the regulator contacts the operator and asks it to stop offering gambling to Danish users. Further action follows if the site stays active.
Telecom providers are then asked to restrict access, but they require a court ruling before doing so. That means a site may remain reachable for some time after it first comes under scrutiny.
Approved cases are handled through DNS blocking. Anyone attempting to open one of the domains is redirected to a page explaining that access has been restricted by the Danish Gambling Authority.
The procedure has been used for years and requires a separate legal step before Danish ISPs act.
What Counts as Targeting Denmark
A company does not need to be based in Denmark to fall under local gambling rules. A licence is required if an operator offers gambling in the country or shapes its service around Danish customers. Spillemyndigheden looks at the way the site is presented rather than relying on one fixed indicator.
Danish-language pages are one signal. So are Danish kroner, local advertising, the Danish flag and customer support aimed at users in the country.
Payments may enter the assessment too. A service built around cards or payment options specific to Denmark can strengthen the regulator’s case. The same applies to betting content. Sportsbooks carrying markets on smaller Danish leagues can be treated as making a targeted offer to local players.
Licensed operators, meanwhile, are required to display Spillemyndigheden’s official licence mark. The logo gives users a quick way to check whether a gambling site is approved for the Danish market.
870 Sites Have Now Been Blocked
The latest court order takes Denmark’s blocked-site count to 870 since the system was introduced in 2012. The figure keeps rising because a DNS block applies to a specific domain, not to the operator as a business. A company can lose access through one address and later appear under another, leaving the regulator to start a new case.
That also makes the Danish approach fairly dependent on repeated checks. The July decision removes another batch of sites from local access, but the 870 total suggests the work is unlikely to end with this round.