Bet Legal identified 415 new unlicensed betting sites in Brazil within two days of the provisional measure banning fixed-odds betting and casino games.
The number of unauthorized sites tracked rose from 295 at 6pm on Friday (September 25), when the ban was announced, to 710 by 7:10pm on Sunday (27), a 141% increase.
New site creation peaked on Saturday (26), the day after the government signed the measure, with 294 domains identified.
Earlier daily counts were 103 on September 21 and 168 on September 22, before falling to one and zero on the 23rd and 24th. Friday recorded 79, 56 of them after the announcement.
The tracking, run with cybersecurity firm Iron Security, cross-references the Federal Official Gazette, state gazettes and notifications sent to telecoms regulator Anatel, and adds technical checks on connectivity, secure protocol use and registration ownership.
Even before the ban, a minister said that more than 25 million Brazilians were still active on the illegal market.
The figures don't necessarily map to individual companies, since a single operator can run dozens of variations of the same domain.
The surge shows the enforcement challenge regulators face: blocking works address by address, while new addresses can appear within hours. The Secretariat of Prizes and Bets (SPA) referred 57,691 addresses to Anatel for restriction between January 1 and September 22.
After the ban, Brazil’s National Associations of Games and Lotteries, ANJL, which represents licensed operators, also ended its agreement with Sportradar covering sports integrity initiatives in Brazil.
The Finance Ministry said in a statement that more than 78,000 unauthorized domains have been blocked in the country
