Mirror sites and blocking: what you should know
Searches for a casino brand often come with the word «mirror» attached. A mirror is a copy of a website on a different address, and in the gambling world mirrors are mostly used for one purpose: to keep a site reachable after its main address has been blocked. This page explains what mirrors are, why blocks exist, and why casinomystake.biz does not publish alternative addresses or ways around them — for MyStake or for anyone else.
What a mirror site is
Technically, a mirror is simple: the same site, served from another domain. Operators sometimes run several domains for ordinary reasons, such as different languages or markets. The problem starts when new domains appear specifically because the old ones were blocked, or when a «mirror» is not run by the operator at all. To a visitor, an official secondary domain, a mirror set up to avoid a block and a fraudulent copy can look exactly the same.
Why gambling sites get blocked
Gambling is regulated country by country. In many places an operator needs a local licence to offer games to residents, and regulators have tools against operators that target their country without one. A common tool is network-level blocking: internet providers are required, often by a court order, to stop serving the site's address to users in that country. Some regulators also keep public lists of blocked domains, and some can act against copies of a site that has already been blocked without starting from scratch. A block is therefore usually a legal statement about the site, not a technical glitch.
If a gambling site is blocked where you live, the protections that come with a local licence — complaint routes, mandatory limit tools, national self-exclusion — generally do not apply there either. Getting around the block does not bring them back; it only removes the warning.
The phishing risk
Mirror addresses spread through social media, messaging apps and forums, and that is exactly where fraudsters operate. A fake copy of a casino can collect login details, payment card data and identity documents, or accept deposits that never reach any real account. Because the copy looks familiar, people relax at the very moment they should be most careful. Typical warning signs are an address that differs slightly from the one you know, pressure to deposit quickly, payment requests to private individuals, and support that only answers through a messaging app.
How to verify an address yourself
- Find the licence number and the regulator in the footer of the operator's site.
- Look the licence up in the regulator's public register and note the domain or domains listed there.
- Use only that address, typed by hand or saved as a bookmark — not a link from a message.
- If the register lists no domain, or the licence does not cover your country, treat that as information, not as a puzzle to solve.
What we do instead
Our job is to explain how licences, payments and bonus terms work, so that you can judge any gambling site yourself. We do not publish mirrors, advice on hiding your location or tricks for bypassing blocks, age checks, country restrictions or self-exclusion. If you notice that you are searching for ways back into a site you have excluded yourself from, that is a moment to talk to someone — Gambling Therapy offers free, confidential support online.