Changelog

Every change to our licence pages, newest first. Each line links to the page it touched, and each fact on that page links to the regulator source we read. Last change .

  • Netherlands. Corrected the deposit rule. Above EUR 700 a month, or EUR 300 for players under 24, the operator must check that the player can afford it and restrict the account if it cannot reach the player. Added the eight follow-up licences that run from October 2026 to September 2031, the 37.8% gambling tax in force since 1 January 2026, and the government decision of June 2026 to keep the age limit unchanged for now.
  • Malta. Gaming tax of 15% for Type 1 games and 10% for Types 2 to 4 has applied since 1 October 2026, for online players who live in Malta. The fixed licence fee is EUR 25,000 per licence, and share capital requirements add up across game types to a cap of EUR 240,000.
  • United Kingdom. Remote gaming duty of 40% and the end of bingo duty are now in force, and the 25% rate for remote bets starts on 1 April 2027. Online slots stake limits apply since 2025. The register held 2,634 business records.
  • Sweden. Since a 2025 amendment the state licence covers gaming machines and certain lotteries only. Spelpaus counted more than 144,000 self-excluded people. Payout disputes go to the National Board for Consumer Disputes.
  • Denmark. Rewrote the complaint route. Complaints go to the operator, then to the Mediation Team for Consumer Complaints and the Consumer Complaints Board. Shop betting pays the same 28% duty as online betting.
  • Isle of Man. The register lists 50 licence holders. Only players outside the UK can take a complaint to the Gambling Supervision Commission. Added the Token Based Software licence.
  • Gibraltar. The register has 68 entries. Licence holders under the 2005 Act carried over automatically. Added the 2026 duty rates and licence fees, the complaint form and the new prediction market register.
  • Alderney. Clarified the Category 1 fees and that the Commission can accept a written guarantee in place of segregated customer funds.
  • Curacao. Exact fees from the CGA fee schedule, an application fee of EUR 4,592 and EUR 47,450 a year for a B2C licence. The CGA licence registry of 20 October 2026 lists 666 licences. Licence numbers can now start with CGA as well as OGL.
  • Anjouan. Licensees must offer one of four approved dispute services, paid by the operator. The public register listed 1,278 licences.
  • Kahnawake. Added the higher Client Provider Authorization and Key Person Permit fees from 1 January 2027 and the March 2026 amendment of the regulations.
  • Costa Rica. Law 9050 of 2012 taxes betting data companies by headcount. The country still issues no online gambling licence.
  • Germany. Corrected when the GGL took over enforcement and licensing. The whitelist was last updated on 2 October 2026. Added a red flag for German licence claims on sites outside the .de domain.
  • Italy. Updated self-exclusion terms and the ADM complaints portal that opened on 10 September 2026.
  • Spain. Added the joint deposit limits of EUR 700 a day, EUR 1,750 a week and EUR 3,300 per four weeks that apply from 25 March 2027.
  • Romania. ONJN describes itself as a body under the Government of Romania. Added the self-exclusion procedure and the count of 61,473 self-excluded people.
  • Alberta. The grey market transition ended on 13 October 2026. The AGLC listing named 41 iGaming operator entries.
  • Search results. A licence whose expiry date in the register has passed, while its status still reads current, now shows both facts side by side.
  • Curacao seal. Checks now start from the licence number, since the CGA warned that its seal may not open while it replaces its portal.
  • Curacao. The CGA ended the orange seal of the old sub-licence system on 15 October 2025. Added how a not valid certificate and a revoked licence page read on cert.cga.cw.
  • Italy. The ADM list of blocked gambling sites valid from 29 October 2026 holds 13,079 domains. Since ADM Determina 675265 of 22 October 2026, game accounts may only be funded with traceable payment instruments.
  • Germany. Each Land taxes and licenses online casino table games under its own law. North Rhine-Westphalia allows up to five concessions and taxes them at 30 percent of gross gaming revenue.
  • Spain. Players can complain to the DGOJ when the operator gives no answer within one month or an unsatisfactory one.
  • Isle of Man. A licence runs for up to five years and can be renewed. No one under 18 may be registered as a player, and every licensee contributes each year to gambling harm prevention.
  • Alderney. Alderney has regulated eGambling since 2000, when the Gambling Law of 1999 came into force. A customer can set deposit, loss or wager limits down to zero.
  • Malta. Operators must offer dispute resolution through a registered ADR entity free of charge.
  • Gibraltar. Added the fees and machine duty for land-based operators.
  • Costa Rica. With the 2026 base salary of 462,200 colones the Law 9050 tax ranges from about 26.3 million to 52.2 million colones a year.
  • Netherlands. Corrected who decided to keep the age limit. The State Secretary for Justice and Security chose it and told parliament in a letter of 12 June 2026.
  • Denmark. The duty rise from 20% to 28% of gross gaming revenue came with Act No. 2226 of 29 December 2020, adopted by parliament on 21 December 2020.
  • Costa Rica. Replaced an unconfirmed note about a stalled online pilot with what the state lottery board published in October 2021, a list of authorised concessionaires for its own online lottery and betting games.
  • Michigan. Read the MGCB list of authorized platform providers again. It still names the same 15 operators and the same websites as on 4 October 2026.

  • Curacao Gaming Authority data breach. New post on the CGA press release of 19 October, with complaints filed in three countries and companies hired to remove the leaked information. The leak explainer and the Curacao notice were updated with it.
  • Anjouan. The Comoros government does not recognise Anjouan licences. The Anjouan page and every Anjouan search result now say so.
  • How to check a license. The Curacao steps now lead with the licence number.
  • Gamdom and Duelbits. Added the position of the Comoros government to the Anjouan licence status.