Online lottery is an online version of the traditional lottery

Lottery

A lottery is a form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize.Lottery is outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments...

. Online lottery enable players to buy tickets through the internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

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Online lottery sites offers tickets for sale, a review of the latest lottery

Lottery

A lottery is a form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize.Lottery is outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments...

 results, stories from recent winners, lottery

Lottery

A lottery is a form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize.Lottery is outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments...

 odds and some of them offers free lottery.

History

Online lottery has become available in the middle of the 90’s. Official lottery companies have come to the understanding that the crowd using the internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 is growing, and that people like the idea of online games.
It did not take a while and private brands of online lottery started to appear on the net, providing their own brand lottery

Lottery

A lottery is a form of gambling which involves the drawing of lots for a prize.Lottery is outlawed by some governments, while others endorse it to the extent of organizing a national or state lottery. It is common to find some degree of regulation of lottery by governments...

 tickets.
Online lottery allows people to buy lottery tickets to draws from out of their countries.

Online lottery sites types

Online lottery can be divided into four groups based on their interface: official lottery sites, national lottery sites, international

International

----International mostly means something that involves more than one country. The term international as a word means involvement of, interaction between or encompassing more than one nation, or generally beyond national boundaries...

 lottery sites and private brand

Private brand

Private branding is when a large distribution channel member , buys from a manufacturer in bulk and puts its own name on the product. This strategy is, with some exceptions, generally only practical when the retailer does very high levels of volume...

 online lottery.

Official lottery sites

Provides lottery tickets to an official lottery draw in certain country such as: Megamillions, Powerball

Powerball

Powerball is an American lottery game sold in 44 jurisdictions as a shared jackpot game. It is coordinated by the Multi-State Lottery Association , a non-profit organization formed by an agreement with lotteries. Powerball is a game whose advertised jackpot starts at $20 million and can roll into...

, OZ lotto, and more.

National lottery sites

Provides lottery tickets to all lottery draws in a certain country. For example: In Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 - Powerball Lotto, Saturday Lotto, OZ lotto.

International lottery sites

Provides tickets to lottery draws from all over the world. Those sites provide a messenger service to their customer

Customer

A customer is usually used to refer to a current or potential buyer or user of the products of an individual or organization, called the supplier, seller, or vendor. This is typically through purchasing or renting goods or services...

s. The sites are mostly available in few different language

Language

Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...

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Private brand online lottery

Tickets to the lottery draws from those sites are usually available only online.
Some of the sites also provide free lottery.