Any idea what percentage of countries make up the market for unregulated casinos?

[mrblack9697]

I am working on a piece about unregulated casinos and am unable to find any data on what percentage of countries make up this market.
Anyone have any insight on this?
Much thanks

 

[maxd]

"what percentage of countries make up this market."

I'm not at all clear what your questions is. Unregulated casinos are -- by definition -- regulated in no country. So assigning a country to those casinos would be a mistake.

Are you asking what percentage of the online casino market is unregulated? If we count completely toothless "jurisdictions" as not relevant it would probably look something like this:

Back in the Wild West days of online gambling -- early 2000s -- it was pretty close to 100% unregulated. Not talking revenue, just casinos.

By roughly 2010 it would have been -- guesstimating -- maybe 80%.

By 2015 maybe 50/50 or thereabouts.

Today I'd estimate that close to 80% of casinos are licensed in a jurisdiction that is at least making an effort to be responsible and professional. Their degree of effectiveness is and always has been open to debate.

The truly unregulated, seat-of-the-pants, operations -- basically pirate casinos with stolen software and no visible management -- have thankfully dwindled considerably.

Regards,
Max Drayman
Forum Co-Moderator, Casinomeister.com

 

[justdoit]

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[Guntis]

I would say, you need to tweak your question to be more specific, or at least ask something like:

In what percentage of countries do people play at unregulated online casinos in their countries?

Then send an email to Statista or h2gc.com to ask if they can prepare and sell you a data set on such or similar information where you could at least indirectly determine an answer.

 

[maxd]

A couple things are worth keeping in mind:

• when a country says "x% of our players are playing at black market casinos" what they really mean is "x% of our players aren't playing at casinos that we have licensed". Just because a casino isn't licensed by country XYZ doesn't mean it isn't licensed at all.
• when players choose to play outside their "home" jurisdiction it doesn't mean their only choice is an totally unlicensed casino. A UK player playing -- or played, recent changes now block this -- at a Curaçao-licensed casino is an example: the casino is still licensed, just not for that player.

The point is that "licensed offshore" and "totally unlicensed" are not the same thing.

In my experience handling player complaints many casinos -- certainly not all! -- with offshore licenses treat players reasonably fairly but the vast majority of totally unlicensed casinos do not. Big difference.

Please don't take this to mean that I think off-shore licenses are great and players will have no troubles there. Not at all the case. Many offshore licenses aren't worth spit.

What I am saying is that if a player wants to try an off-shore licensed casino then they are taking the responsibility for how things go on themselves: DO YOUR RESEARCH. If it is a good casino run by responsible people and has been in business for many years and/or is owned by a casino group with good reviews at reliable player-facing sites then the chances are the player will be treated properly.

When you play at a state-licensed casino -- excluding the various countries that offer offshore licensing -- you can more or less assume that things will go well, meaning that you won't simply be robbed and abused. Here still, if you're not familiar with a given jurisdiction you'd be wise to do your research on that too. For example we've seen a few Eastern European countries are now offering casino licensing but they are as yet unproven. If fact, the early indications we've seen for some of them are not good.

- Max

 

[mrblack9697]

Thank you all, to be clearer- what I meant was: What is the approximate makeup by country within the unregulated casino market.
So for example a casino that allows countries that it shouldn't by that countries laws, either through lax or absent licensing might have 50% UK, 20% US, 10% AUS, 10% BRAZIL and 10% other players.

I think not many casinos will want to release this information so am open to finding other ways to interpret congruent data, such as forum membership, domain traffic etc.

Thank you

 

[JoshM87]

Have you succeeded in acquiring any information?

 

[mrblack9697]

Nothing concrete no.

 

[incrediblestuff]

Thank you all, to be clearer- what I meant was: What is the approximate makeup by country within the unregulated casino market.
So for example a casino that allows countries that it shouldn't by that countries laws, either through lax or absent licensing might have 50% UK, 20% US, 10% AUS, 10% BRAZIL and 10% other players.

I think not many casinos will want to release this information so am open to finding other ways to interpret congruent data, such as forum membership, domain traffic etc.

Thank you

I think that will be quite hard to ascertain, simply because most of those unlicensed or not licensed in the players own jurisdiction, these days are - more often than not - crypto casinos. So naturally that would mean the bulk of said players, need to use a VPN to sign up, and as far as im aware there is little to no statistical info available that would clarify where exactly most of those players are located.

What's obvious (well, to me) is that most of the players that seek their fortune elsewhere, are those that have a home jurisdiction that has taken away certain QoL features under the guise of responsible gambling (autoplay, bonusbuy, spin speed) so if you want to find out more, you should probably address players from those countries directly, perhaps by ways of a poll/survey, which then of course would have to be anonymous? At least if you want participation and truthful answers

From what i know, those would be countries like the UK, The Netherlands, Germany...
Possibly more, haven't exactly kept up.

 

[Lucky Loser]

Thank you all, to be clearer- what I meant was: What is the approximate makeup by country within the unregulated casino market.
So for example a casino that allows countries that it shouldn't by that countries laws, either through lax or absent licensing might have 50% UK, 20% US, 10% AUS, 10% BRAZIL and 10% other players.

I think not many casinos will want to release this information so am open to finding other ways to interpret congruent data, such as forum membership, domain traffic etc.

Thank you

I don't think anyone can answer this question

Australia doesn't allow online casino gambling so no one is licensed. This means 100% of Australian online casino gamblers are playing at an unlicensed casino.

 

[johnnymcc1966]

Curacao=99%.
The Rest=1%

 

[mrblack9697]

I don't think anyone can answer this question

Australia doesn't allow online casino gambling so no one is licensed. This means 100% of Australian online casino gamblers are playing at an unlicensed casino.

Yep I understand that, but I'm rather looking for the stat of what percentage of the market those gamblers take up.

Eg: If an unlicensed/semi-licensed/unregulated casino where to breakdown it's userbase, what percentage of them would be from AU/CAN/US/UK/ETC ?