Distribution and platforms: Can we ship through apps and platforms?

Distribution-platform enforcement intensified this cycle. Following the 2024 removal of 1xBet from Google Play and the App Store, Egyptian authorities and platform operators targeted MelBet in a further takedown campaign, an uncertain-confidence, single-source finding that nonetheless corroborates a sustained pattern of app-store-level action against offshore-licensed betting operators serving Egyptian users. This distribution-platform pressure runs alongside the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority and Supreme Council for Media Regulation's technical-blocking campaign, which reported blocking approximately 80 percent of online betting applications as of February 2026, suggesting that platform delisting and network-level blocking are being pursued as complementary enforcement tracks against the same population of offshore operators. The accessory-liability basis for these actions is inferred from the general gambling-related liability provisions of Law No. 371/1956, as no explicit hosting or DNS-specific statute was identified in the evidence reviewed this cycle.