Research and practical analysis on illegal gambling markets, gambling regulation, domain networks, blacklists, mirror sites, AML, sports integrity, compliance and enforcement.
Sportsbooks depend on data. For regulators and integrity teams, understanding which feeds, widgets and technical services appear on an illegal operator can reveal investigative leads — but a script or hostname alone does not prove a supplier relationship.
Regulator technology is most useful when it turns fragmented observations into defensible cases: what is accessible, how domains relate, what changed after enforcement and which action should happen next.
Gambling compliance is not a checklist completed at launch. Products, payments, customers, jurisdictions and technology change — and the control environment has to change with them.
Sports betting integrity is a multi-party intelligence problem. Betting operators see customer activity, sports bodies understand competition risk, regulators hold legal powers, and law enforcement can investigate criminality.
Illegal gambling market-size estimates can look authoritative while hiding large assumptions. Better analysis makes the uncertainty visible and separates traffic, activity, spend and gross gambling yield.
Mirror domains turn a blocking decision into a moving target. The key is not simply finding lookalike domains, but building a defensible evidence chain that shows how a replacement relates to the original service.
Effective illegal-market enforcement is layered. A regulator can reduce access, discoverability and commercial viability by acting across search, hosting, domains, payments, platforms and network access.
FATF’s 2026 gambling work puts illegal operators, cross-border payments, virtual assets and suspicious betting patterns inside the same financial-crime risk picture.
A blacklist can make an illegal gambling site harder to reach, but it does not freeze the operator behind it. The real enforcement challenge starts when domains rotate, mirrors appear and acquisition routes move.
Illegal gambling is not a fixed list of websites. It is a changing cross-border market shaped by licensing gaps, payments, mirrors, search visibility and technical infrastructure.