How to check a casino licence: Curaçao and Anjouan step by step
The licences
The footer seal is a claim the casino makes. The register is the answer. This is the procedure we followed on 18 September 2026 with 17 casinos, with screenshots, the mistakes that confuse people most, and what to do with each result.
Checking a casino licence takes five minutes and needs nothing but a browser. The idea is simple: the casino claims in its footer that it holds a licence, and the body that grants licences publishes a register. If the two say the same thing, good. If they do not, the register wins. That is how we did it for every casino on our list of casinos with no Spanish licence, and it is how you can do it for any other.
Before you start: the three things in the footer
Scroll to the bottom of the casino's site. There is usually a seal there, some legal text and sometimes a link. Copy three things:
- The jurisdiction: Curaçao, Anjouan or another.
- The licence number: in Curaçao, something like
OGL/2024/328/0599; in Anjouan, something likeALSI-202602030-FI2. - The holding company: the name of the company operating the casino, with its legal form (B.V., N.V., Ltd, SRL).
Write down the exact domain you play on as well. It sounds obvious, but it is the detail people get wrong most often: one brand can run several domains, and a certificate covers the ones it covers.
Curaçao: the cert.cga.cw portal
The Curaçao Gaming Authority runs a certificate portal where every licensed domain has a page of its own.
- Open cert.cga.cw and go to the search page. The front page has no search box; the search page does.
- Type the domain, with no https, no www and no trailing slash:
cloudbet.com, nothttps://www.cloudbet.com/en/. - Open the result. If the domain is certified, a link to the “Certificate of Operation” appears.
- Read the whole certificate. It is two sentences. The first says who operates the domain, under which company number and under which licence number. The second says when it was granted and what its status is.
The Cloudbet certificate is a clean example: domain cloudbet.com, holder Halcyon Super Holdings B.V., company number 148526, licence OGL/2024/328/0599, granted on 23 May 2025, status Active. If Cloudbet's footer says the same, the licence is checked.
The three statuses you can meet
- Active. The licence is live and covers that domain.
- Revoked. The certificate exists, but the licence was revoked. That is what the portal answers for bc.game.
- Not Active or Not Valid. The domain was removed from the registry, or the certificate is not valid. That is what it answers for empire.io and for flush.com.
All three cases, with their screenshots, are in licences that do not add up.
Anjouan: the public licence register
Anjouan publishes a single table with all of its licences — more than 1,500 on the day we read it. There is a search box at the top and seven columns: company, status, number, type, issue date, expiry date and domains.
- Open the public licence register on the site of the Anjouan gaming authority.
- Type the casino's domain into the search box. You can type the company or the number instead.
- Find the row whose domain is exactly the casino's. The search box finds the text inside any domain: typing “flush.com” also returns the row for “foxyflush.com”, which is a different casino owned by a different company.
- Read the expiry date and compare it with today's.
The status column said “Valid” in green on every row we saw, including rows that had already expired. The column that informs you is the date. Rakebit, for instance, has an entry held by Nile King Media Ltd, valid until 17 February 2027. Empire.io has one that says “Valid” and expired on 27 May 2026.
The mistakes that confuse people most
Searching by number in Curaçao. The portal does not search by number. It searches by domain or company, and the number is checked afterwards, inside the certificate.
Accepting a certificate for another domain. If you search by company, the portal may show you certificates for other domains in the same group. The one you want is the one for the domain you play on. Vave is the friendly example: its holder has an active certificate, but that certificate names vavegame.com rather than vave.com. We tell the story in the Vave review.
Trusting the green label. In Anjouan, “Valid” does not mean live. You have to read the date.
Stopping at the first register. Some casinos print one licence and hold another. If Curaçao answers “Not Valid”, look at Anjouan too; if Anjouan finds nothing, look at Curaçao.
Not comparing the footer number with the certificate. A domain can be covered by an active certificate while the footer prints a different number in a different company's name. That happens with Jackbit: an active certificate held by Ryker B.V. under licence OGL/2024/1800/1049, and a footer printing another number for another company.
What to do with the result
| What the register answers | What it means for you |
|---|---|
| An Active certificate for that domain, with the same number and the same company | Licence checked. Move on to the terms. |
| An Active certificate, but the footer prints a different number or company | Ask support which licence is theirs and compare. |
| An Anjouan entry with a date still ahead | Licence checked. If it expires soon, look again before you deposit more. |
| Revoked, Not Active, Not Valid, or a date already past | Do not deposit. |
| The domain does not appear | Do not deposit until you have an answer you can verify. |
What a licence does not tell you
A live licence says that a body granted a company permission to run that domain. It does not say how long the casino takes to pay, when it asks for documents, or how much you may withdraw in a week. That is in the terms, and the terms are the next thing to read: the verification clause, the withdrawal clause and the bonus clause. For the casinos on our list, what those clauses say is summed up on each card, and the way we turn it into a mark is in how we score.
One last thing: the licence does not change the house edge. Checking it helps you choose where to play, not how much. The spending limit is the part that is yours to set; we explain how in safer play.