Finding the licence number again in the register

Where the number sits

Almost every playing site prints its licence statement in the footer: authority, number and often the company. That number is the starting point. If the footer carries only «licensed in Curaçao» with no number, the check ends there — there is nothing to look up, and that is already a result.

Two registers, two ways to search

The most important difference in practice: in the Curaçao certificate directory you search by domain or company name, not by licence number. In the register of the Anjouan Gaming Board the search works on the number itself, and the entry names the domains covered. Curaçao in detail, Anjouan in detail.

1. Note the number and the domainYou need both: the number for Anjouan, the domain for Curaçao.
2. Open the right registerThe authority is named in the licence statement. Both directories are reachable without an account.
3. Compare the entry with the statementDo the company and the number match what the site prints? Is your own domain in the entry?
4. Read status and termStatus alone is not enough — at Anjouan «valid» sits beside expired terms as well.

Three possible results

First: everything matches. Then the statement is evidenced, with a date worth noting down — a register entry is a snapshot. Second: the entry exists, but against a different company or under a different number from the one printed. Then neither «checked» nor «not licensed» is right, and the question belongs with the house's support desk. Third: there is no entry. Then the licence statement in the footer says precisely nothing.

Why this is worth four points in the ranking

The licence is the only statement about a playing site that does not come from the site. That is why it carries the largest single weight in the arithmetic of this page — four of twelve points, plus two for the company named and two for when the entry was last read.

What to do when the number does not fit

If the number does not fit the domain, or the register names a different company, that is no proof of anything improper — brands change companies, registers lag behind, and a page footer is rarely updated. It is a reason to ask, though, and the question is simple: under which number is this domain held? Get a clear answer and you have learned something; get none and you have learned something too. If no entry can be found at all, the licence statement remains an assertion the site makes about itself — exactly the kind of statement this check exists for. In the ranking on this site, an entry with no findable number does not appear, and a revoked certificate leads to exclusion rather than to a lower place.

The first three places — every entry states what this check produced.

The other three steps are under Check it yourself; what came out of them for the twelve entries stands in the ranking.

This check — finding a licence number in the register — is one of four and does not replace the other three. Together they take about ten minutes and answer the questions that later actually carry weight. What they do not answer is stated expressly beside them on the overview page.

Common questions