The Dutch Gaming Authority has ordered cloud infrastructure solutions provider DigitalOcean to cease and desist from providing services to illegal gambling affiliate websites.
Kansspelautoriteit said the identity of the owners of the affiliates “cannot be identified” but that Dutch players are still being referred to illegal providers.
In issuing a binding instruction on the company, the KSA said: “DigitalOcean must stop providing services to the illegal affiliates within four weeks of sending the notice.
“If this is not the case, the KSA can impose a follow-up sanction, for example a penalty and/or a fine.”
Player protection and the legal market are currently pertinent issues in the Netherlands, with the KSA reporting that the vchannelisation rate to the legal market has dropped from 93 per cent to 90 per cent.
The regulator also said that the Dutch legal market has grown by only one per cent in the most recent reporting period, which the Netherlands Online Gambling Association said could be linked to the ban on untargeted advertising brought in in the Netherlands in July 2023.
Proposed new government regulations on deposit limits are also being consulted on by the industry.
