Where to check a casino licence yourself
These are the official registers we check every licence against — the regulator's own list, not a copy of it. We publish them because the useful thing about a licence claim is not that we believe it: it is that you can check it in about a minute. Each entry links straight to the searchable register rather than the regulator's front page, says what you can actually look up there, and warns you where the register is stale, incomplete or misleading. Checked 18 July 2026.
How to use these
Search the register for the company name, not the casino brand. Almost every casino is operated by a company with a different name — the brand you see is rarely the licensee. A profile on this site names the operating entity for exactly this reason. If a casino displays a licence number, check that the number, the company and the status all match what the register says; a real number attached to the wrong company is a common trick.
A licence covers a specific market, and often a specific domain. An
authorisation issued in one country generally does not license the same brand's international
site. Brazil's register, for instance, ties each authorisation to a .bet.br
address, so a Brazilian licence tells you nothing about the operator's .com.
What the enforcement column means
A register that lists licensees tells you a regulator exists. Whether that regulator publishes what it has done is a separate question, and it is the one that decides whether a clean record means anything. We record four states, and the difference between them matters more than most sites admit:
- Names operators — you can look up whether a specific brand has been sanctioned, and read the decision.
- Totals only — the regulator reports how many operators it acted against, never which ones.
- Operator redacted — decisions are published in full, with the operator's identity removed. France is the case to know: its sanction decisions are public documents in which the company appears only as “la société X”. You can read that a French operator was fined and never learn which.
- Not published — nothing is released at all.
This is why a spotless record from a regulator in the last two categories is not evidence of good conduct. There is nothing to find, whether or not anything happened.
Europe
Gambling Commission (UKGC) Great Britain
Licence register we could not load this ourselves
You can look up: operator name, account number, licence status, trading names and domains, regulatory sanctions history. Enforcement: names operators We class it A
We could not load this register from our own research network, so we flag it as unconfirmed by us rather than imply we checked it. It is the benchmark register: each licensee record carries its own regulatory-sanctions tab.
Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) Malta
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: licensee name, licence number, licence type, status, authorised URLs. Enforcement: names operators We class it A
The enforcement register names the company, the licence reference, the breaches found and the action taken, filterable by year. The licensee table is loaded by JavaScript, so it looks empty to automated checkers.
Hellenic Gaming Commission (EEEP/HGC) Greece
Licence register · List of operators it has acted against
You can look up: licence holders, manufacturers, certification bodies. Enforcement: names operators We class it A
The blacklist is the strongest asset here: a downloadable spreadsheet of thousands of blocked domains with the operating entities behind them and the sanctions imposed. The searchable licence register itself is Greek-language only.
Autorite nationale des jeux (ANJ) France
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: operator name, authorised sites, licence categories. Enforcement: operator redacted We class it A
The most misleading regulator on this page if you only skim it. Sanction decisions ARE published promptly as PDFs — but the operator is redacted throughout as 'la societe X', with dates and even market share scrubbed. So you can read that a French operator was fined and never learn which one. The licensee register names operators normally; it is only the sanctions track that is anonymised.
Servico de Regulacao e Inspecao de Jogos (SRIJ) Portugal
You can look up: licensed entity, domain, licence number, licence amendments. Enforcement: totals only We class it A
Portuguese only — the English path does not exist. Enforcement appears solely as quarterly totals (notifications sent, sites ordered blocked, referrals to prosecutors) inside statistical reports; no operator or domain is ever named, and there is no blocked-sites list to download.
National Betting Authority (NBA) Cyprus
Licence register · List of operators it has acted against
You can look up: company name, trade names, licence number, status, licence duration. Enforcement: not published
The blocking list is a dated plain-text file of roughly three thousand domains that ISPs must block — the easiest of all these lists to check. But fines imposed are not published at all: the administrative-fine page describes only the legal framework, with no decisions and no names.
Oficiul National pentru Jocuri de Noroc (ONJN) Romania
Licence register · Enforcement decisions · List of operators it has acted against
You can look up: licensed Class I (online) operators. Enforcement: names operators We class it A
Decisions name the company in full — legal name, registered address, fiscal code and licence serial — and the blacklist of unauthorised domains is refreshed by numbered decisions roughly monthly. One practical snag: the site sits behind an anti-bot challenge, so these links can look broken to automated checkers while working normally in a browser.
Kansspelautoriteit (Ksa) Netherlands
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: company name, website, app, licence number. Enforcement: names operators
The sanctions list names both licensed and unlicensed operators, with fines and dates, and it is the one enforcement page here that reads without JavaScript. There is no English version of it. The licence search itself is a Dutch-language tool behind the English gateway page.
Spelinspektionen Sweden
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: licence and permit holders, web addresses of licensed sites. Enforcement: names operators
Decisions name the operator and state the action — warning, remark, injunction or sanction fee — but the amount is usually only inside the linked decision PDF, not the summary. Both register and decision list are search apps, so only the landing URL is stable.
Spillemyndigheden Denmark
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: operators licensed to offer gambling in Denmark. Enforcement: names operators
Danish law requires company names in published fines and convictions, kept on record for five years; decisions about individuals are anonymised instead. Slot-machine and game-supplier licences sit on separate lists. The decisions index is Danish-only and loads its rows by script.
United States
Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) New Jersey, United States
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: every approved iGaming domain, grouped by the casino licensee behind it. Enforcement: names operators We class it A
States plainly that a site not on the list is not approved, which makes it a usable check. Rulings and orders are posted twice monthly. No standing list of illegal operators — cease-and-desists appear individually.
Gaming Control Board (PGCB) Pennsylvania, United States
You can look up: approved online casino operators and their sites. Enforcement: not published We class it A
Online sportsbooks are on a separate page. Fines and consent agreements are not published as a register — only as press releases, with the agreements themselves supplied on request.
Gaming Commission (MGC) Massachusetts, United States
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: licensee, licence category, and operators that have left the market. Enforcement: names operators We class it A
The best enforcement register of any US state we checked: a real table giving the entity, the date, what happened and the penalty, with links to the notices. Note that cease-and-desists against offshore operators come from the state Attorney General, not this commission.
Casino Control Commission (OCCC) Ohio, United States
Licence register we could not load this ourselves · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: licence status, and whether the operator is currently operating. Enforcement: names operators We class it A
The operator list is published as a dated PDF that uniquely shows both licence status and whether the operator is actually live. The website blocks automated access, so we could not confirm these pages ourselves — they load normally in a browser.
Gaming Commission (IGC) Indiana, United States
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: brand, legal entity, retail or mobile, casino partner, licence dates. Enforcement: names operators We class it A
Carries an explicit 'current as of' date, which most US operator lists do not. The separate charity-gaming disciplinary page does not cover casinos or sportsbooks.
State Gaming Commission New York, United States
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: licensed mobile sportsbook operators. Enforcement: names operators We class it A
The violations database is searchable and opens the underlying notices. Treat the operator list with care: it is undated and still showed an operator reported to have closed. There is no single all-licensee register — New York splits them by vertical.
Gaming Control Board (MGCB) Michigan, United States
Licence register · List of operators it has acted against
You can look up: licensed online casino and sportsbook brands, and named cease-and-desist recipients. Enforcement: not published We class it A
One of only a handful of regulators anywhere that publishes a named list of operators it has told to stop — several hundred of them, on the same page as the licensed brands. The regulator states the list is not exhaustive, so absence from it does not mean an operator is legal. Disciplinary actions against its own licensees are not published as a register.
Lottery and Gaming Control Agency (MLGCA) Maryland, United States
Licence register · Enforcement decisions · List of operators it has acted against
You can look up: licensed sportsbooks and fantasy operators, and cease-and-desist recipients. Enforcement: names operators We class it A
Goes further than any other illegal-operator list we found: each named recipient links to its own cease-and-desist letter. Maryland splits the work between two bodies — the Agency investigates and issues notices, the Commission approves the resulting consent agreements, which are published inside monthly meeting records rather than in an index.
Division of Gaming Colorado, United States
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: per-licence lookup by name, including internet sports betting operators. Enforcement: totals only We class it A
The lookup tool is the usable route; the operator list on the main site is an embedded spreadsheet with no update date at all. Enforcement is not published as a register — named cases sit inside commission minutes PDFs.
Lottery Commission West Virginia, United States
You can look up: permit numbers, interim and annual licence dates, expiries. Enforcement: not published We class it A
The dated licence lists are the most current we found anywhere, but they are PDFs whose URLs change on every revision, so always navigate from the portal rather than a saved link. Enforcement outcomes are not published, and the state's action against offshore operators was run by the Attorney General, not the lottery.
Department of Gaming Arizona, United States
You can look up: event wagering operators and their tribal or franchise partner, fantasy operators. Enforcement: not published
Marks operators that have ceased Arizona operations, which is more than most states do. No enforcement index exists — cease-and-desists appear only as one-off press-release PDFs with unstable filenames.
State Gambling Commission (WSGC) Washington, United States
You can look up: individual and organisation licence lookup, with a full CSV export. Enforcement: not published
The only regulator here publishing its whole licensee list as a downloadable data file. Enforcement decisions are not published anywhere — the site explains the process but links no outcomes. Its 'illegal gambling' page is educational and contains no operator list, despite the name.
Offshore and small jurisdictions
Curacao Gaming Authority (CGA) Curacao
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: licensee name, licence number, status, licence type. Enforcement: names operators We class it B
Published as dated PDF registries rather than a search box. Under the LOK reform many licensees sit in an 'assessment in progress' state, which is real evidence but weaker than a plain active licence.
Gambling Supervision Commission (GSC) Isle of Man
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: company name, licence status, valid from and to, licence type, website domains. Enforcement: names operators
The old gambling.gov.im domain is dead; anything still linking there is out of date. Enforcement is published as named public statements, including licence cancellations.
Anjouan Gaming Authority Anjouan, Union of the Comoros
You can look up: company, status, licence number, type, issue and expiry dates, domains. Enforcement: not published
Contrary to what is often written, this register does exist and is searchable — which makes absence from it a finding rather than an unknown. Several other websites also present themselves as the Anjouan regulator, so a licence seal on an operator's own page proves nothing by itself. No enforcement register is published.
Gibraltar Licensing Authority Gibraltar
Licence register · List of operators it has acted against
You can look up: operator legal entity, licence type, approved brands (as linked PDFs). Enforcement: not published
Publishes no licence numbers, so you can confirm the company but not a number a casino displays. The consumer-warnings page lists sites falsely claiming Gibraltar licensing — warnings about outsiders, not sanctions against licensees. Note the division moved off gibraltar.gov.gi.
Kahnawa:ke Gaming Commission (KGC) Mohawk Territory of Kahnawa:ke, Canada
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: operator name, associated domains, regulation type. Enforcement: not published
The weakest register we list: no licence numbers, no status column, and the page carries a 2023 update stamp. Terminations appear as news posts rather than in any register, so there is no reliable way to check a permit's current standing.
Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC) Alderney
You can look up: company name, licence category, associated websites. Enforcement: not published
Browse-only, with no search, no licence numbers and no status field. Publishes no enforcement register. A trap worth knowing: large fines against Alderney-registered companies that surface in search results are usually UK Gambling Commission actions, not Alderney ones.
Gemeinsame Gluecksspielbehoerde der Laender (GGL) Germany
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: operator name and registered address, permitted gambling type (sports betting, virtual slots, online poker), permitted domain, date of first permit and of renewal. Enforcement: names operators
The whitelist is the German licence register and is authoritative, but it is DOMAIN-scoped: an operator listed for bet-at-home.de is permitted for that domain only, never for its .com. Permits are also per gambling type, so a company can be whitelisted for sports betting and not for virtual slots. Separately, the 'oeffentliche Abmahnungen' page is the only named-operator enforcement list the GGL publishes about its own licence holders, and as of 08.07.2026 it is entirely empty - so absence from it is weak evidence. Larger enforcement (prohibition orders, fines) is reported only in aggregate in the annual activity report, without operator names.
Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario / iGaming Ontario (AGCO / iGO) Ontario, Canada
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: operator legal entity, every brand it runs, which verticals each brand covers. Enforcement: names operators
The clearest brand-to-licensee mapping of any regulator here, and it carries its own as-of date. Two bodies split the work: iGaming Ontario holds the operator directory, the AGCO registers and disciplines. Penalties are published as named news items with the amount and the standard breached, not as a filterable register — and the AGCO page headed “monetary penalties” is only the fee schedule, not a list of who was fined.
Northern Territory Wagering Commission Northern Territory, Australia
Licence register · Enforcement decisions
You can look up: brand and trading name, the company licensed behind it, website, whether a brand is dormant. Enforcement: names operators We class it A
Listed brand by brand rather than by company, which is unusually useful — one operator can hold ten brands here. No licence numbers are published. Decisions name the licensee, the breach and the fine, anonymising only the complainant. The commission was renamed and the old racing-commission web addresses now redirect, so older links still work but are out of date.
PlayCity State Agency of Ukraine Ukraine
You can look up: brand, the licensed legal entity and its state ID, licence decisions and dates, website or app, venue. Enforcement: names operators We class it A
Two things to know before you look. The previous regulator, KRAIL, was liquidated on 1 April 2025 and its website no longer exists at all — PlayCity is its legal successor. And the register is not a database: it is a 93-page PDF exported from a spreadsheet and hosted on Google Drive, with no search. Revocations are recorded inside it against named companies, so enforcement is checkable, but only by scrolling.
Gaming Commission (Kansspelcommissie / Commission des jeux de hasard) (BGC) Belgium
Licence register · Enforcement decisions · List of operators it has acted against
You can look up: licence holders by licence class, operator name, website. Enforcement: names operators
The blocklist is a plain HTML table on the page itself, giving per-entry the domain, the date of the Commission's decision and the date of publication in the Belgian Official Gazette — so entries carry an exact action date. It names domains only, never the operating company, so attribution has to come from elsewhere. Entries are removed after at least five years once a site no longer exists, meaning absence is not proof a site was never listed.
Rest of world
Secretaria de Premios e Apostas (SPA/MF) Brazil
You can look up: authorising ordinance, licensed company and CNPJ, brand, authorised .bet.br domain. Enforcement: names operators
Authorisations are tied to a specific .bet.br address, so a Brazilian licence tells you nothing about the operator’s international .com site — a distinction operators are happy for you to miss. Sanctions are named, but only in the official gazette rather than any consolidated register, and the list of blocked domains is deliberately withheld to stop operators spinning up mirrors.
What is missing from this list, and why
This covers the regulators that licence the casinos we have researched, so it grows as our coverage does rather than trying to list every gambling authority on earth. Where we could not load a register from our own network we say so on the entry instead of implying we checked it; those links are the regulator's canonical address and work normally in a browser.
Some jurisdictions are absent because they genuinely publish nothing a member of the public can search. That absence is itself worth knowing: if a casino names a regulator you cannot find a register for, the licence claim cannot be checked by anyone, including us. We record that as unverified rather than treating the operator's word as evidence — the reasoning is on our scoring page.