As announced by the Hellenic Gaming Commission (EEEP) a new strategy has been enabled with Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT) to prioritise “DNS-based” web-blocking and domain name enforcement.
The Commission states that the legislation introduces “a faster, more technically documented and more effective system” for identifying and blocking unlicensed online gambling operators.
The cooperation forms part of the ‘new Gambling Framework’ bill drafted by Minister of National Economy and Finance Kyriakos Pierrakakis, to modernise Greece’s gambling laws and enforcement capabilities against the growing threat of black market gambling.
DNS-based enforcement
The new enforcement will change the EEEP’s approach to how it monitors and penalises illegal gambling websites, which to date have led to illegal websites being solely bla..