Four more names added to Belgian blacklist
No further licences issued following latest meeting of country's gaming commission.
Multiplayer skill games site wataro.com is among four domains to be blacklisted this month by the Belgian Gaming Commission (BGC).
The domain – which features match-three games and quizzes – is joined on the blacklist by Wataro-powered jeuxcash.rtl.be, a site created for Luxembourg-based broadcaster RTL.
Sports betting business betwingo.com and online scratchcard operator scratchmania.com are the other blacklisted operators, bringing the overall total up to 64.
However this total could soon come down to 62, with a process underway to remove two of bwin.party’s dot.com domain from the list as the operator awaits the final approval of its dot.be partnership with Groupe Partouche.
The partnership between the two operators was first announced in December, with BGC spokesman Peter Naessens saying at the time: “We expect that in the first quarter of next year all licences might be acquired.”
No new licences were awarded as a result of the BGC’s February meeting, although this year has seen StarGames.be, GoldenBet.be and Napoleon Games given the green light to launch various offerings in the EU member state.
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