Our sources, and when we read them
Public records and dated documents. We read regulators’ own records and each casino’s own pages, and every line names the date of the check behind it. Nothing here comes from an account of ours.
Which registers do we read?
Only those our casinos name. Today their footers point to the Curaçao Gaming Authority or to the Anjouan regulator, so those are the registers on file. Each status we quote keeps its registry edition and its check date.
Curaçao Gaming Authority
- Online gaming licence registry: a dated edition, such as the one last updated 2 October 2026.
- Certificate pages: the page a casino’s seal opens, with the domain, operator and status.
- Notices: announcements such as the seal notice.
- Register caveat: the CGA says its overviews “do not guarantee the current validity of the licenses”.
Anjouan
- License register: company, licence number, domains and status on each row. All 1,543 rows read Valid on 7 October 2026.
- Validator: opened from a casino’s seal link, with the seal’s own values.
- Registry disclaimer: domain names on the register come from the licence holder.
- Complaint policy: what the regulator reviews, and what falls outside its process.
Which casino documents do we keep?
Every one a page quotes, each kept as a dated copy that stays on file after the casino rewrites its page:
- Footer: the licence claim, company names and company numbers.
- Terms: general terms, bonus terms, and the payment, verification and complaint rules.
- Main page: a screenshot of the casino’s main page as it appeared, logo included, with its date.
- Archive copies: older footers and terms from public web archives, with first seen and last seen dates.
- Domain record: the registration record of the casino’s domain.
Casino documents are cited by name and date. None of them is linked. No page here links to a casino, by any kind of link.
How often do we re-check a casino?
Whenever its record moves. A notice, a report or a page update sends a casino back for a fresh read. The new copy goes on file under its own date.
Triggers
- A regulator notice: such as the CGA’s change to its seal.
- A reader report: a line that no longer matches the casino’s own page.
- A page update: the page is read again in full before any fact on it changes.
How are copies of terms told apart?
By date. Each copy sits under the day it was taken. A quote names that day, so a reader always knows which copy a line rests on.
Copies can disagree. Where one names a different company or a different list of restricted territories, the page prints both, each with its date. Neither is called the right one.
Times are rare. They appear only when copies from one day must be told apart.
Where can you see a source yourself?
On the regulators’ own sites, since every record a page cites is linked:
- CGA: the license register page links the registry editions.
- Anjouan: the license register lists each licence row.
- Seal steps: the licence seal guide shows how to open a seal and what it proves.
How a source becomes a line is set out on the method page. That page also covers corrections.