Before you choose · the register, not the advertUpdated 24.09.2026
Check the licence yourself: ten minutes, three registers
A licence badge at the bottom of a front page is a picture. It can be copied from any other site in four seconds. What cannot be copied is the entry in the issuer's own register — and that is the lookup this page shows you how to make.
All of these lookups are public, free and take about a quarter of an hour together. They are the only part of a casino's claims about itself that can be checked from outside, which is why they are the first point on the checklist.
Start by finding the claim
Scroll to the bottom of the casino's front page. Three things are printed there that you will need: the name of the company running the site, the number of the permission, and the name of the issuer. If one of them is missing there is nothing to look up — and a casino that does not state its own licence holder has already answered the question.
Write all three down before you open the register. Half the mistakes people make in this lookup are searching for the casino's brand name instead of the company's.
The licence badge on the front page is a picture. Only the lookup in the issuer's own register says anything — and it takes ten minutes.
Curaçao: the certificate is tied to the domain
The Curaçao Gaming Authority runs a certificate register searched by domain or company, not by licence number. That is the detail most people trip over.
A valid entry shows five things, and all five have to match the site you are standing on:
- The domain — exactly the address you are playing at.
- The company — the same name as at the foot of the front page.
- The company number — the registration number in Curaçao.
- The licence number — in the form OGL/YEAR/NUMBER/SEQUENCE.
- The status — it has to read active.
If the domain is not in the certificate, the matter is settled however right the rest looks. The old system of master licences and sub-licences is being wound down, and that is precisely why it is worth checking now: a sub-licence that worked last year is not necessarily a valid permission today.
Anjouan: search for the company, read the expiry date
The Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority has a licence search where the company name is the key. The entry gives the licence holder, the number and — most importantly — an expiry date.
Anjouan licences run for shorter terms than most, and a date a few weeks in the future is not a problem in itself. It is a reminder to look it up again before the next deposit. Write the date down next to the casino's name; it is a piece of information no review will give you, because it changes faster than the texts do.
Malta: the most thorough list
The Malta Gaming Authority keeps a public list of licence holders with company name, licence number, which game types the permission covers, and status. It is the most detailed of the three, and it also shows when a licence has been suspended or withdrawn — something the other registers are more reticent about.
A Maltese licence is not a Danish licence and gives no Danish rights. What it gives is a register that is kept up to date, and an authority that handles complaints about its own licence holders.
Four things that make an otherwise tidy lookup useless
- The company matches, the domain does not. The permission belongs to
another site.
- The certificate is an image on the casino's own page. The image proves
nothing. Only the register's own entry counts.
- The number returns no hits. A number that is not in the register is not a
number.
- The status is something other than active. Suspended, expired or under
review all mean «no, not right now».
What the lookup does not tell you
A valid licence says that somebody issued a permission and that there is an address to complain to. It does not say that withdrawals are fast, that support answers, or that the bonus terms are reasonable. Those three have a page each here: withdrawals, verification and bonus. And it says nothing about the age of the operation — that is the subject of new casinos.