Foreign-licensed casinos seen from Germany

One phrase, two markets

«Ausländische online casinos» is searched around 70 times a month in Germany and 390 times in Switzerland — and with «schweiz» attached another 1 300 times. For a phrase that means the same in both countries, that is an astonishing difference. The only thing rather larger in Germany is «online casino ausland» with 320 searches: the same question, different word order.

The conclusion is sober: this page is written first for Switzerland, because that is where the question is asked. For German readers that changes nothing about the substance — the ranking measures registers and terms, not location.

What is different for German readers

Two things fall away that are central for Switzerland. First the double conversion: the euro stands in several of these cashiers, the franc in none. Second the detour for payment routes — TWINT and PostFinance play no part in Germany anyway, and cards and prepaid codes work directly.

What remains as a difference from Switzerland is mainly that the stated thresholds in the terms are usually already noted in your own currency. 2 000 euros at one address, 2 500 euros at another, 2 000 dollars at a third — readable in every entry.

The first five places. The order is the same in every country, because the inputs are the same.

Why the phrase is disappearing in Germany

The distance between 70 and 1 300 searches a month cannot be explained by less playing in Germany — «online casino» reaches 301 000 searches a month there against 40 500 in Switzerland. The question does get asked, just in other words. In Switzerland «ausländisch» is the obvious distinction, because the contrast with domestic is part of everyday speech there. In Germany the demand has spread into other phrasings that this page deliberately does not serve, because other domains cover them in turn.

For a German reader a simple use remains: the twelve entries are ordered by evidence that holds in Germany exactly as it does in Switzerland, and the four steps under Check it yourself work from any desk. Only the figures in francs are then to be read as euros.

What this page does not cover

Alongside this phrasing, a whole row of other searches runs in Germany that have nothing to do with «ausländisch» and are deliberately not served here. This page stays with what its name says: addresses licensed by an authority abroad, ordered by what that authority's register contains.

What is likewise not here: anything about taxes, the legal position or official requirements. This comparison reads registers and terms of business — that is something other than legal advice, and the line between the two is not blurred here.

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