Thailand Blocks 945,075 Gambling URLs in 2026 Fiscal Year

Thailand's Ministry of Digital Economy and Society reported that 945,075 gambling-related URLs were blocked or removed during the country's 2026 fiscal year, covering October 2025 through September 2026.

Of the total, 835,207 URLs were blocked following court orders, while digital platforms removed another 109,868 after requests from the ministry.

The figures cover individual URLs rather than unique gambling websites or operators. A social media post promoting an illegal gambling service, for example, can be counted separately from the operator's main website and other pages associated with the same business.

The distinction is important when assessing the scale of Thailand's enforcement activity.

Gambling URL Enforcement More Than Triples

The latest total represents a sharp increase from previous years.

Thailand recorded 2,059 blocked gambling URLs in fiscal 2023, followed by 62,213 in 2024 and 307,538 in 2025.

The 2026 figure of 945,075 is more than three times the previous year's total and approximately 459 times the level recorded three years earlier.

The data therefore show a rapid expansion in the volume of gambling-related online content targeted by authorities.

However, the increase does not necessarily mean the number of individual illegal gambling operators grew at the same rate. A single operator can generate large numbers of domains, pages, advertisements and social media posts.

Court Orders Accounted for Most Actions

Court-backed blocking remained the main enforcement route during fiscal 2026.

The 835,207 URLs covered by court orders represented approximately 88% of the total gambling-related URLs acted against during the year.

The remaining 109,868 were removed through cooperation with digital platforms following ministry requests.

That second channel allows authorities to target content hosted on third-party services, including social networks, rather than relying exclusively on internet-level blocking.

The approach reflects the increasingly fragmented infrastructure used by illegal gambling businesses, where customer acquisition can take place through social media pages, advertisements and other online content before users reach the gambling platform itself.

Thailand Expands Digital Gambling Enforcement

The figures underline how aggressively Thailand has expanded its online gambling enforcement capacity.

The government has increasingly focused not only on gambling websites themselves but also on the wider digital ecosystem used to promote and distribute access to them.

That makes URL counts a measure of enforcement activity rather than a direct estimate of the size of Thailand's illegal gambling market.

The 2026 figures nevertheless show that gambling has become one of the largest categories of online content targeted by Thai digital enforcement authorities.

With almost one million gambling-related URLs blocked or removed in a single fiscal year, the scale of enforcement is now substantially higher than in 2023, when only a few thousand such URLs were recorded.