# WEB-129 — No gambling content on the site

> The brand website must not host or promote casino, sportsbook, lottery or online gambling content.

- **Rule ID:** WEB-129
- **Layer:** Website (`WEBSITE`)
- **Checks:** `crawled website content`
- **Severity:** BLOCKING — Breaking this rule gets the submission rejected outright.
- **When it bites:** Gates approval — get this wrong and registration is refused
- **How it is detected:** AI judgement over the crawled website or policy page
- **Fix type:** Hard stop — not remediable, resubmission will not help
- **Required by:** AWS, Bandwidth, Telnyx
- **Applies:** Applies to every 10DLC registration.
- **Canonical URL:** https://ekas.io/rules/10dlc/website/web-129/

## Why this rule exists

Gambling is banned by some providers and routed to a special use case by others, so the safe default is refusal — and the split is invisible from outside, which is how a licensed operator ends up registering into a destination that will not take it. The consumer harm behind the strict reading is the same one age gates exist for, arriving on a device with no gate in front of it.

## How to fix it

Confirm before registering whether your destination offers a gambling or sweepstakes use case; several refuse the category outright. Where one exists, register under it rather than under marketing.

## Provider rejection codes

| Provider | Code | Resubmission allowed |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Twilio (gen2) | `30944` | no |

## Notes

Telnyx allows a licensed-and-age-gated carve-out and AWS marks the category non-remediable. Strictest kept. The message-side twin is MSG-GAMBLING.