The badge is an image file
A licence badge in a footer is a picture. It can be copied from another site in seconds and frequently is. The number beside it is what matters, and only because it can be typed into somebody else's database.
Four steps
- Read the number, not the badgeIt is usually in the footer, sometimes only in the terms. If there is no number anywhere, that is the answer.
- Open the regulator's own siteType the authority's name into a search engine and go to the authority, never to a directory that claims to list licences.
- Search the register by numberNot by brand name. Brands are marketing; numbers are records.
- Find the domain columnThe record lists the domains the licence covers. If the address in your browser is not among them, you have found something worth knowing.
What a valid entry does and does not mean
It means a regulator holds a live record naming that operation, that a company stands behind it, and — where the register publishes domains — that this particular site is covered. That is genuinely worth having and it is not nothing.
It does not mean the regulator underwrites payouts, reviews commercial terms clause by clause, or will act quickly on a complaint. Treat the entry as identification rather than as insurance.
Behind the buttons
Where every button on this site leads
A cashier in six settlement assets, a licence that resolves in the regulator's own certificate portal with the date it was read, and wagering printed as a figure.
- Six settlement assetsno card at the cashier
- Licence in a public registernumber and reading date printed
- Wagering as a numbernot as a sentence
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One licence, twenty-nine domains
The domain column is where the interesting readings happen. One register entry read for this catalogue covers twenty-nine separate addresses held by a single company. Every one of those sites can display the same badge, the same number and the same valid status, and every one of them is a different brand with different terms.
That is not a scandal — it is the ordinary structure of the industry. But it means a valid licence tells you about a company and the domain list tells you about the site, and only one of those is the thing you are about to deposit into.
The two registers behind this catalogue
- Curaçao. The authority runs a certificate portal that resolves a licence number to a record with a status and an issue date. Where a date on this site says it came from a portal, this is the portal, and the date it was read is printed with it.
- Anjouan. The board publishes register entries and, usefully, writes the issue year and month into the licence number itself. That format is explained in reading a licence number for its date.
If the number does not resolve
Three ordinary explanations before assuming the worst: registers go down, numbers get transcribed wrongly in footers, and some authorities publish only part of their register publicly. Try the number from the terms document rather than the footer, and try it without formatting. If it still does not resolve anywhere on the authority's own site, treat the badge as unverified — which is how every unresolved entry on this site is recorded.
The other guides
Alongside this page in the same section: reading a licence number for its date, why domain age lies, wagering, worked through and what triggers a document request. Each one takes the same twenty-three casinos and the same three dates, and asks a different question of them.
Further out: new crypto casinos, the launch register and every casino in the catalogue. The catalogue behind all of them is the same, which is why the numbers on one page never contradict the numbers on another.
The section this page belongs to is the guides, and the whole catalogue with every date attached is on the launch register. The front page carries the short list of new crypto casinos by licence date.