Gambling Portal reviewed 2005 online gambling year and published it on its site. According to the review, 2005 was an important year to the growing online gambling industry.

Some online casinos, poker rooms and sportsbook helped raising donations for the people who were damaged by the Tsunami in Asia and by the hurricanes in America.

In 2005, the fight for legalizing online gambling continued. Antigua and Barbados complained to the World Trade Organization about US international trade law breaching, by forbidding its citizens from using the online casinos located at these countries. The US has not replied to this complaint yet.