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Online Casino Sites Backing Out

The new licensing regimes in Canada and France have many online casinos rapidly using the latest technology to back themselves out of these markets. France has already implemented a strict licensing process for foreign internet gambling sites and sites who have previously accepted French gamblers are using geoblocking technology to identify a specific region and block gamblers from that location. Similarly, as Canadian provinces begin to look toward a regulated market with state-licensed gambling many online casinos are fearful of ruining their chances for official licensing by continuing to operate in these markets.

The French situation has been working for several months now and the vast majority of online casinos that were targeting and accepting French players have now fully stopped their actions. These companies are interested in ARJEL licensing in the coming months and illegal access to the French market will act as a black strike in the licensing process. Similarly, a few of the Canadian facing online casino sites have just released emails to players informing them that they are no longer offering these services within parts of Canada that have licensed and tightly regulated the market.

France and Canada are certainly not the only nations that have illegally operating online casino gambling sites, but these two markets are just now adopting liberalized licensing policies so the internet gambling sites are voluntarily leaving to show compliance. They will then seek legal entry into the market. Nations that continue to outright refuse liberal policies have been forced to come up with creative (and ineffective) ways of keeping the gaming sites out of the market.