Norway's gambling-enforcement posture remains active and is tightening further: Lotteritilsynet issued a fresh DNS-blocking notice on 8 October 2026 covering 62 sites, including the event-prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi, under its established pengespilloven section 32a power. This extends an existing programme that has already blocked 238 sites across 72 companies. Separately, Lottstift's report on gambling-like elements in computer games signals a possible forthcoming extension of gambling law to loot-box mechanics, though this remains at the report stage with no formal consultation yet opened. Together these developments confirm an enforcement regime that is both operationally active and willing to test the boundaries of what counts as pengespill against novel product categories.
Norway · Question 01 of 11
Norway Gambling — Overview: What kind of market is this?
Unfavourable · Confirmed · Not reviewed · 1 post-review update · Not reviewed · Back to full Norway report →
Key section parameters
| Jurisdiction | Norway (NO) |
|---|---|
| Regulator | Recorded in register |
| Favourability | Unfavourable |
| Confidence | Confirmed |
| Review status | Not reviewed · 1 post-review update · Not reviewed |
| Last collected | 27 Oct 2026 |
Summary answer
Norway's gambling-enforcement posture remains active and is tightening further: Lotteritilsynet issued a fresh DNS-blocking notice on 8 October 2026 covering 62 sites, including the event-prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi, under its established pengespilloven section 32a power. This extends a…
Key headwinds & conditions
- No commercial licence pathway
- Aggressive ISP + payment blocking
- Advertising ban for all non-monopoly operators
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Norway's gambling market continues to operate under the long-standing state-monopoly structure held by Norsk Tipping and Norsk Rikstoto, with Lotteritilsynet as supervisory authority. The dominant development as at 8 October 2026 is a DNS-blocking notice sent to 62 operators, the first to name prediction-market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi alongside conventional unlicensed casino and betting operators. An NRK investigation published the same day, drawing on a leaked dataset of 8,197 domains, found a substantially larger unlicensed online-casino footprint — roughly 500 Norwegian-language sites — than the existing 238-site block-list reflects. Together these developments describe an active and broadening enforcement posture directed at the unlicensed periphery, with no change identified to the licensing instrument underpinning the monopoly structure itself. As a civil-law jurisdiction, Norway's enforcement rests on statutory licensing authority rather than a secondary licence-breach theory, with blocking orders as the principal tool against unlicensed, foreign-directed operators.