The Paperwork – Jurisdictions, Legal and Compliance Legal by Ian Sherrington November 2024 Series – The Online Gambling Industry Read Article Legal Summary In the 1990s, e-commerce became a thing. Before that, government control on goods and services was regulated by the location of a business; the rules a business had to follow, as well as the taxes paid, were both set by local and national laws, based on where the company was registered. Then, the internet began to connect people and businesses together, fundamentally and anonymously. Physical locations were tricky to establish. Rules and regulations, based on location, no…

Interview with Dr Aftab Rizvi Gaming Associates The First Certification by Ian Sherrington Series – The Online Gambling Industry Part 2- The Paperwork, Jurisdictions, Legal and Compliance Read Article Brought to you with the assistance of And our friends at Series Introduction The Online Gambling Industry A Series of Articles Ian Sherrington, July 2024 In 1996, a small sportsbook in Austria accepted the world’s first online sports bet: a $50 gamble that Tottenham Hotspur would beat Hereford United in a third round FA Cup replay. Since then, the rise of the online gaming industry has been meteoric. From humble beginnings,…

The Paperwork, Jurisdictions, Legal and Compliance The Jurisdictions By Ian Sherrington, September 2024 Part 1 of Article 3 in the series The Online Gambling Industry Read Article The Jurisdictions In this article I will take a look at the early online gambling jurisdictions of Antigua, Curaçao, The Kahnawake, Costa Rica, Vanuatu and Belize. Along the way, I ask, Why did the “Big Four” casino software companies all start in Antigua? And, which was the first real online gambling jurisdiction? I’ll try to answer these questions and more! Read Article Brought to you with the assistance of And our friends at…

Interview with Henrick Sandin,Boss Media By Ian Sherrington, September 2024 Article 2A in the series of articles The Online Gambling Industry Revised 8th September 2024. Read Article Brought to you with the assistance of And our friends at Series Introduction The Online Gambling Industry A Series of Articles Ian Sherrington, July 2024 In 1996, a small sportsbook in Austria accepted the world’s first online sports bet: a $50 gamble that Tottenham Hotspur would beat Hereford United in a third round FA Cup replay. Since then, the rise of the online gaming industry has been meteoric. From humble beginnings, in seedy…

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How the Online Gambling Industry Started Article 1 in the series of articles The Online Gambling Industry Ian Sherrington, July 2024 Read Article Brought to you with the assistance of Series Introduction The Online Gambling Industry A Series of Articles Ian Sherrington, July 2024 In 1996, a small sportsbook in Austria accepted the world’s first online sports bet: a $50 gamble that Tottenham Hotspur would beat Hereford United in a third round FA Cup replay. Since then, the rise of the online gaming industry has been meteoric. From humble beginnings, in seedy apartments and dimly lit basements, visionaries and programmers…

Introducing a series chronicling the rapid rise of a 75 billion dollar industry. Ian Sherrington has been working in online gambling since its inception — the early 1990s. In just 30 years, it has gone from basements to board rooms, rapidly evolving with no end in sight. Now, his series of 40+ articles will detail every step of online gambling’s rise, with insights from the people who made it happen. Countless innovations have catapulted the industry. From the moment Sherrington and his team received the very first online sports bet, various services and casinos have developed to form a complex…

I have a plan.. After a half century of creating betting systems (plus a few other things in between), I think it’s time to write my thoughts on how it’s going so far. I’m Ian Sherrington, older but not necessarily wiser. I’m getting my head out of programming and having a stab at writing articles once again. If you kinda know me then I might have mentioned to you that I created the very first online sportsbook for Intertops way back in 1996 and was there when the industry just started and it all happened. I’ve had the pleasure (mostly..)…