Bodog in Canada – Closure Record

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Operators named in courtIl Nido Inc. and Il Nido Ltd, with trademark holder Sanctum IP Holdings LtdMarketCanadaManitoba injunction26 May 2025Overall statusBlockedWritten reasons26 June 2025Nova ScotiaStopped September 2024Last verified10 September 2026
Bodog is an offshore betting brand that took Canadian players for years without a Canadian licence. Three provinces have now pushed it out. Nova Scotia in September 2024, Manitoba by court order in May 2025, and Quebec has blocked it for years. Ontario has told media companies to stop carrying its adverts. The main Bodog address no longer resolves.
26 May 2025Manitoba injunction3Provinces it left14 May 2025Ontario advert warningDeadMain domain today

01 · The site

Offshore, and not licensed in Canada

Canada runs gambling province by province. Each province decides who may offer betting inside it. Ontario has a licensed market. Others use their own lottery bodies.

Bodog had none of that. It ran from outside Canada and took Canadian players anyway. Two firms were named in the Manitoba court case. Il Nido Inc. and Il Nido Ltd, both based in the Caribbean. A third firm, Sanctum IP Holdings Ltd, owns the brand name.

That set-up is normal offshore practice. Split the operating company from the brand ownership. Keep both outside the country you are selling into. A local regulator is then left with very little to act on.

02 · The court case

Manitoba took it to court and won

Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries went to court in January 2025. It acted for a group of Canadian lottery bodies.

On 26 May 2025 a Manitoba judge granted a permanent injunction. He set out his reasons in writing on 26 June 2025.

The judge found that Bodog broke three laws. Section 207 of the Criminal Code, which gives provinces the sole right to run gambling. The Competition Act. And the Trademarks Act.

The order tells internet firms to block the Bodog addresses for people in Manitoba.

Ontario acted in a quieter way. On 14 May 2025 its regulator wrote to more than a dozen media platforms. It told them to stop carrying Bodog advertising, because the brand is not licensed there.

Nova Scotia came first. Bodog stopped there in September 2024. Quebec has blocked it for years, but we could not find a date for that.

03 · The money

Nothing published, and the address is dead

No source we found says anything about Canadian player balances. Not in any of the three provinces.

That is a serious gap. It is also typical of offshore closures. Nobody has to publish it, so nobody does.

We tried to load the main Bodog address ourselves on 10 September 2026. It does not resolve at all. That is a real technical failure, not a block page. A second Bodog address could not be reached either, so we cannot describe it.

There is no route to complain. Bodog held no Canadian licence. So no Canadian gambling regulator has power over it. The Manitoba court order was about stopping it operating, not about getting anybody paid.

This is what unlicensed offshore betting costs you. A court can stop a site reaching you. It cannot get your money back.

A court can order a site blocked in your province. That order does nothing about money already in your account. If a regulator in your country says a site is unlicensed, treat that as a deadline and take your money out.

04 · The receipts

How we verified this record

Every claim on this page is graded by how firmly we could check it. Confirmed means we saw it in the operator’s own notice or in a document that cannot easily be faked. Observed means we saw it ourselves on the live site or domain on the date given. Unconfirmed means it has been reported but we could not prove it.

ConfirmedA Manitoba judge granted a permanent injunction against Bodog on 26 May 2025, with written reasons on 26 June 2025Reported by a Canadian gambling trade outlet in two separate dated articles.
ConfirmedThe judge found breaches of section 207 of the Criminal Code, the Competition Act and the Trademarks Act, and ordered blocking for Manitoba residentsSet out in coverage of the written reasons.
ConfirmedThe operating companies named were Il Nido Inc. and Il Nido Ltd, with Sanctum IP Holdings Ltd holding the trademarkNamed in the same coverage.
ConfirmedOntario regulator asked more than a dozen media platforms to stop carrying Bodog advertising on 14 May 2025Reported in a separate dated article.
ConfirmedBodog stopped operating in Nova Scotia in September 2024Reported at the time.
ObservedThe main Bodog address does not resolveChecked on 10 September 2026. It fails to resolve at all, which is a genuine technical failure rather than a block page.
UnconfirmedWhat the second Bodog address does todayRepeated attempts to reach it timed out before returning anything.
UnconfirmedWhat happened to Canadian player balancesNo source we found addresses it.
UnconfirmedWhen Quebec first blocked the brandReported only as having been blocked for years, with no date.
What we checked, and what we did not. We took the injunction date, the written reasons date, the laws breached, the company names and the Ontario advertising action from a Canadian gambling trade outlet across four separately dated articles. We tried to load both known Bodog addresses ourselves on 10 September 2026 and report exactly what each returned, including the one we could not reach. We searched for any statement about Canadian player balances and found none. We did not contact Il Nido Inc. or Il Nido Ltd. Last independently checked: 10 September 2026.

05 · The questions

Bodog in Canada – the questions still open

Q. Is Bodog closed?

Not as a business. It has been pushed out of three Canadian provinces and its main address does not resolve, but it is not a company that has shut down.

Q. Which provinces blocked it?

Nova Scotia from September 2024, Manitoba by court order in May 2025, and Quebec for several years. Ontario has told media platforms to stop advertising it.

Q. What did the Manitoba court decide?

That Bodog broke section 207 of the Criminal Code, the Competition Act and the Trademarks Act, and it granted a permanent injunction requiring the sites to be blocked.

Q. Was Bodog licensed in Canada?

No. It operated from outside Canada with no Canadian licence.

Q. Can I get my balance back?

There is no realistic route. No Canadian regulator has power over an unlicensed offshore site, and the court order was about stopping it operating, not about paying anyone.

Q. Why does the address not work?

We checked on 10 September 2026 and the main Bodog address does not resolve. We cannot tell you why, only what we saw.