Belgium bans 22 domains in targeted crackdown on offshore mirrors and brand spoofs

Belgium’s Gaming Commission hit offshore operators and brand-spoof domains with 22 new blocks on 21 May — the blacklist now stands at more than 890 entries.

Belgium’s Gaming Commission (GC) expanded its list of illegal gambling sites on 21 May 2026, targeting two distinct groups: offshore operators without a Belgian license and domains built to imitate licensed local brands.

Blask data shows that Belgium remains an overwhelmingly local market. In May 2026, licensed local operators held 94.6% of Blask Index, while the international segment accounted for 5.39%. The CEB gap was equally wide: domestic brands generated $183M against $8.84M for international players.

BC Game and Westace lose mirror domains

The May blocking package covered three domains linked to BC Game — bcgame.nl, bcgame-belgium.com and bcgame0.com — whose main address, bcgame.com, had already been added to the blacklist in November 2024. Magnetic Slots lost three domains, while Stone Vegas and Westace lost two addresses each.

This pattern points to a standard offshore tactic: after one site is blocked, an operator registers new mirrors or country-specific domains to keep access to users. Belgium is responding through dynamic injunctions, which allow blocking measures to extend to new variants of already listed sites without a separate legal process for every new address. As a result, the blacklist is gradually becoming an operational enforcement tool rather than a static register.

Clones target brands that dominate legal demand

A separate part of the May update focused on domains imitating licensed operators. GC blocked ladbrokescasino.be, which resembles the official casinoladbrokes.be address, as well as bwincasinobelgium.com, which mimics bwincasino.be. Two Scooore clones, scooore-live.com and scooorez.com, were also added to the list.

Fraudulent clone sites deliberately parasitize the leaders of the Belgian market, where demand is tightly concentrated around a narrow group of local operators. Star Casino, Unibet and bwin form the top three by brand recognition, while the rest of the top 10 is shared by operators with strong local presence: 777 (BE), Ladbrokes, Golden Palace, betFIRST, Bingoal, Circus and Casino Belgium. Their popularity makes them prime targets for spoofing: users who trust these brands can easily let their guard down and land on similar fraudulent addresses when searching for a familiar betting operator.

Out of 87 gambling operators tracked in Belgium, 12 are offshore brands generating over $1M in annual revenue. Despite their scale, none have broken into the market’s top 10. Betify leads the offshore pack, but ranks only 28th overall.

Belgium’s blacklist growth picked up in 2026

Since the start of 2026, the Belgian regulator has added more than 100 sites to the blacklist, compared with only five during the same period in 2025. The GC says the increase was driven by stronger blocking tools, including dynamic injunctions, a new legal mechanism under Belgium’s Code of Economic Law, and cooperation with DNS Belgium on fraudulent .be domains.