What a foreign online casino licence says, and how to check it

How to check the number yourself

At a casino with a Curaçao licence the procedure takes three steps: find the licence number in the terms or in the footer, open the cert.cga.cw portal and enter the number or the domain name, then compare whether the domain shown is the same one you play on. The entry can differ from the terms, as the cases below show, so it is not worth skipping that step.

With an Anjouan marking, checking is harder because there is no single public search; the only thing available is the ALSI marking written in the terms, which can be compared only against other public statements from the same issuer, where those exist.

At Wolfbet the ALSI marking is written as ALSI-132405048-FI3, in art. 1, para. 1, and repeated in the footer of every page. Repeating the same marking in several places in a document is not proof of validity, but it is a sign that the operator treats the marking as a permanent part of its legal identity, not a one-off entry.

When the state of the register does not match the terms

Among the twelve casinos in the table, between 8 and 13 September 2026 we recorded four cases of mismatch:

• Rocketpot. Article 1.2 of the terms gives the marking 1668/JAZ. The cert.cga.cw portal marked that same number as not valid on 12 September 2026 and again on the 13th.
• Metaspins. Article 1.1 of the terms points to Anjouan with the marking ALSI-202606048-FI2. On 12 September 2026 the Curaçao register at the same time showed Metaspins N.V. with an active licence OGL/2024/1063/0437 for the domain metaspins.com — two authorities, neither entry mentioning the other.
• Wild.io. The portal names Nonce Gaming B.V., while the terms of business name Stack Gaming Ltd. We state both names without deciding which is correct.
• Wild Fortune. The Anjouan marking ALSI-202509073-FI2, in the entry of 12 September 2026, expires on 29 September 2026; until then the entry holds for the domain wildfortune.io.

In all four cases the difference is read directly from two sources on the same day, not inferred.

Vave: the domain on the certificate

Vave holds licence OGL/2024/1676/0905, run by Latcas B.V. and valid since 19 May 2025. When we looked at the cert.cga.cw portal on 12 September 2026, one domain was tied to that certificate — vavegame.com. The domain vave.com was not on the certificate, which is worth knowing before anyone equates the name of a brand with the name that actually stands in the register.

Where a foreign online casino licence is confirmed with no discrepancy

At Bitcasino.io (OGL/2023/111/0069, Moon Technologies B.V.), Shuffle.com (OGL/2024/1337/0628, Natural Nine B.V.), Bitsler (OGL/2024/930/0387, Oyine N.V.) and Thunderpick (OGL/2024/677/0722) the entry in the Curaçao register on 8 and 12 September 2026 matched the domain the casino runs on. At Thunderpick the terms do not name the number, but the register nevertheless confirms it as active.

What it means for a licence to be revoked

Among brands outside the table there are also some that once held a Curaçao licence and lost it: Bets.io, Betriot, Casinoly and Zet Casino are among them. Their old markings still turn up around the web, while the register carries them as revoked rather than active. That is why a foreign online casino licence is not in itself enough — what counts is the state of the entry on the day of reading, not merely the existence of a number.

Why the company name and the brand name can differ

A player who types a brand name into an issuer's register often finds nothing, because the register records the company name, not the brand. Vave is registered under the name Latcas B.V., Bitcasino.io under Moon Technologies B.V., Shuffle.com under Natural Nine B.V. The name a casino uses in its advertising can therefore be entirely different from the name standing in the official entry.

That gap is not in itself a sign of trouble — it simply follows from the way a licence is granted at all: a legal person is registered, not the brand that company trades under. A foreign online casino licence therefore always refers to the company behind the brand, not to the name a player sees on the front page.

The consequence is practical: anyone wanting to address a complaint or a question to the right recipient needs the company name from the register, not only the brand name from the front page. Without it, correspondence with the licence issuer is considerably slower, since the issuer first has to work out which of its brands is even meant.

At casinos running several brands at once under the same company, that step matters more still. The company name is common to every brand it runs, whereas the brand name is unique to the one site a player actually plays on.

What to do if you cannot find the register entry

If a search by domain or by licence number on the cert.cga.cw portal returns no result, the first step is to check that the number was copied correctly — a typing mistake is a more common cause than an actual absent entry. If the number is right and there is still no result, that is itself an important fact: it means the current state of the register does not confirm that certificate, whatever the casino's page says.

With Anjouan markings the search is harder because there is no single portal; all that remains is to compare the date at the foot of the terms with the date of your own enquiry, since a good deal can change between those two dates.

What a foreign online casino licence proves, and what it does not

A valid entry proves three things: that a certificate with that number exists, which company it was issued to and which domain it was attached to on the day of the check. It does not prove a payout deadline, does not prove an upper withdrawal ceiling and does not say whether the casino accepts players from Slovenia. What each casino publishes about deadlines and ceilings is summarised on the pages about identity verification and withdrawal limits. A detailed breakdown of the licences at Vave, Rocketpot and Bitcasino.io stands on the pages for Vave, Rocketpot and Bitcasino.io.

How to read the issue date

Besides the status of the entry, it is worth checking the licence issue date where it is published. Vave received and activated its licence on 19 May 2025, Shuffle.com on 16 October 2024, Bitsler on 22 July 2024 and Jack.com on 23 July 2025 — all four dates come from the Curaçao register, not from the operators' own claims. An older issue date means nothing in itself beyond the certificate having existed longer; it does not say whether it was ever suspended or altered in the meantime.

Jack.com carries a further peculiarity: the brand traded as Jackbit until 29 May 2026, and according to the register the domain jackbit.com runs under a certificate separate from the one for jack.com. Anyone comparing the foreign online casino licence at that brand therefore has to know which of the two domains they are actually checking. Swapping one domain for the other in a search on cert.cga.cw can return an entirely different result, even though it appears to be the same brand.

Why a reading date stands beside every figure

A licence issuer's register is not a static document — it can change between one visit to the page and the next. That is why this page quotes, with every licence figure, the date on which the entry was read, rather than asserting a general and permanently valid fact. The same rule holds for all the content on this site and is explained more fully on the page about the methodology for reading terms.

A player choosing between two casinos purely on which has the tidier-looking entry should bear in mind that the state can change as soon as next week — checking before every larger deposit is therefore more reliable than trusting a figure read at registration.