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Methodology

Casino Globe records, for each licence, what an official register showed and on which day. The register file was read on 2 Oct 2026: 6,877 licence records of 5,312 brands under 112 licensing jurisdictions. As of 8 Oct 2026, 6,554 are active: seen on an official register and not past an expiry date the register prints. The daily check last ran on 8 Oct 2026.

What is read, and when

The baseline is one register file, read on 2 Oct 2026. It holds each licence record with the page it was read on. 73 of the 112 jurisdictions have an official register link on file; Licences lists them with their links.

A check script reads some registers again: one request at a time, under its own name, waiting as long as each site asks. It is meant to run once a day. It reads:

Last run on file: 8 Oct 2026.

Never read by the script, because the register blocks or forbids automated reading, or has no online list:

  • Gibraltar (GIB) — register. Answers HTTP 403 to an identified User-Agent (robots.txt included); only a disguised browser gets through, which we never use.
  • Tobique (TGC) — register. Terms (updated 1 Aug 2024) forbid robots, scraping, monitoring and deep links.
  • Mohéli, Comoros (MISA) — register. A Cloudflare challenge sits in front of the register and its robots.txt; challenges are never solved.
  • Panama (JCJ) — register page not linked. No online register of online-gaming licensees found; jcj.gob.pa does not answer.
  • United Arab Emirates (GCGRA) — register. Answers HTTP 403 to an identified User-Agent (2 Oct 2026); never worked around.

No script reads the other registers again, and no person re-reads them on a schedule: their licences rest on the register file and on what its compilers read on the register date.

How a check decides. The check looks for the licence number, the company and the brand's websites on the regulator's own page. Where the regulator publishes the websites a licence covers, one of the brand's must be among them; where it publishes none, the company must match (letter case, punctuation and “Ltd” or “Limited” aside; a different legal form, such as N.V. and B.V., does not match). A record that carries the licence but names another company or other websites leaves the licence Unconfirmed, never active. A record whose status the check cannot read changes nothing. A failed read changes nothing.

By hand. For a register no script reads, a person reads the regulator's own page and records what it shows, with the page's address and the day; only a page on the regulator's or the government's own site is accepted. Its badge says “Checked by hand” and the day.

What each state means

Every licence carries one of five states. Only Confirmed and Listed are active: an active licence is a star on the globe. The same words and sentences appear on the globe and on every record page.

Evidence states, what each means, and the sentence its badge prints
StateWhat it meansBadge wordingOn file
ConfirmedActiveA check found it on the official register for this brand, and the regulator shows it in force: the daily check, or a person who read the register by hand.Found in the regulator's register on [date].Checked by hand on the regulator's register on [date].4,651
ListedActiveSeen on an official register on the register date. Not checked again since.Seen on the regulator's register on [date]; not re-checked since.1,903
UnconfirmedNot activeNo official register confirms it for this brand: the only source is not an official register; or the register's record names another company or other websites; or the check could not find it again and a person is reviewing it.Source is not a regulator's register.The regulator's register lists this licence for another company or other websites; not confirmed for this brand (read [date]).Not re-confirmed on the regulator's register since [date]; under review.272
ExpiredNot activeThe expiry date the register prints has passed, or the regulator no longer shows it in force.The expiry date the register prints ([date]) has passed; not re-checked since [date].51
SuspendedNot activeAn official act suspended the whole licensing regime it belongs to.Suspended since [date]: [what the official act says].0

Each badge names its source. “Official register” is a page on the regulator's or the government's own site, from a list of hosts kept by hand. “Third-party source” is any other page: it never makes a licence active. The operator's own site is never linked.

What the verdict for your market means

On the globe, each licence also gets one word for the market you declared at the entry notice. It reads the licence's state first, then what the register records for your market.

  • Licensed: A national licence that covers your market, which a check found in force on the official register at most 14 days ago. Only this verdict opens a paid casino's link, and only for it is a paid casino shown as paid.
  • Listed: A national licence that covers your market, seen on the official register but not confirmed by a check in the last 14 days.
  • Offshore: An offshore licence, in a market the register records as having no local regime.
  • Grey zone: An offshore licence, in a market the register records as a state monopoly or a regime in transition.
  • Not covered: The register does not record this licence as covering your market. It says nothing more about the casino.
  • Excluded: The register records that the operator's own terms exclude players from your market.
  • Outside the register: The register holds no licence data for your country.
  • Unconfirmed, Expired, Suspended: The licence's own state, in every market.

What is re-checked automatically, and what is not

  • Automatically, when the check runs: the licences under the registers above, 4,771 of 6,877 licence records.
  • In your browser, every day: a licence whose printed expiry date passes after the build stops being active on the globe, without a rebuild. On the record pages a small script moves it out of the active list and labels it “Past the printed expiry date”.
  • Not automatically: every other licence. It stays Listed with the register date until the register file is rebuilt, and its badge says “not re-checked since”.
  • A failed read never lowers a state. A licence not found once keeps its state; its badge says it will be read again. “Licensed” lapses to “Listed” on its own once the last confirmation is more than 14 days old.
  • No visitor report, payment or operator's letter changes a state. A report is a lead for a person to check against the register.

What waits for a person

A licence the check cannot find is held for a person to review; nothing is published until they have searched the company, every domain, the licence number and the parent company. Until then its badge reads “Not re-confirmed on the regulator's register since [date]; under review.” The same holds for a licence the register cites an official source for but does not record as seen there.

A missed search proves little. Registers list companies, not brands: a casino run under another company's licence (a white label or a sublicence), or under a new name, can be missing from a search for its brand.

Warnings carry only the status word a regulator's register prints (expired, suspended, revoked or surrendered), or an expiry date it prints with a later read; every other row of the register's withdrawn list waits for a person. A register that prints no status word is never quoted as if it did.

What the register does not cover

How stars are ordered on the globe

  • Only active licences are stars. A brand with no active licence is not on the globe, and keeps its record page.
  • Paid placements rank first, marked PAID; others by reported revenue or, where none is public, by register footprint (marked EST.). Footprint = 2 × national licences + offshore licences + 0.2 × domains (five at most). It orders casinos without a public figure; it is not a rating.
  • A paid placement is shown as paid (its package's colour and size, first place, the PAID label) only to a visitor whose verdict for that casino is “Licensed”; every other visitor sees it like an unpaid casino. Paid placements today: 0.
  • A reported figure carries its source.
  • A rank is not a rating. The record pages carry no rank: their lists are A–Z.

What payment can never change

  • Licence data, evidence states and their badges.
  • The verdict for your market.
  • Warnings and the change log: no entry is added, kept or removed for payment.
  • The record pages: they carry no placement, no casino link and no casino domain.

Payment buys a bigger star, first place in the globe's lists and one labelled link, shown only to a visitor whose verdict for the casino is “Licensed”; the link opens only then, and never in a market that prohibits gambling advertising. An unpaid casino shows no link and no domain.

The publisher also operates Influence Casino, a streamer agency for online casinos. A casino's relationship with that agency, or the absence of one, changes nothing on this site: not its record, not its verdict, not its rank, and it buys no placement.

How to cite

Cite the regulator's register first: it is the authority. To cite Casino Globe, give the page, its address and the date its record was read, for example:

Casino Globe, “Expired, suspended, revoked or surrendered licences”, https://casino-globe.com/warnings, register read 2 Oct 2026.

Changes are logged in the change log. A record you think is wrong: Corrections.