- 2,664licensed businesses read
- 604declare a website at all
- 2,135declared gambling domains
- 81%of brands share an account
01 What a casino licence UK operators hold actually is, and who holds it
A casino licence UK players are covered by is issued by the Gambling Commission to a company, authorising specified gambling activities for customers in Great Britain. That single detail explains most of the confusion around casino ownership. The licence is not attached to a website, a brand, an app or a domain: it is attached to a legal entity, and that entity may trade under one name or fifty.
Every casino licence uk record carries the same fields: an account number, a named licensee, a registered office and a status. All four are public. Anyone can open the register in a browser, with no account and no fee, and read them. In the data behind this site, 48 companies hold the licences covering 139 live British casino brands, and the largest single account covers 19 of them.
02 The brand is not the licensee, and who owns it is a separate question
Working out who owns UK casinos starts in the footer. Licensed operators must display their licence details on the site, and nearly all do — a company name and an account number in small grey type at the foot of the page, alongside a line about being licensed and regulated by the Gambling Commission. Read one and you learn a company name. Read thirty and you start seeing the same company names repeatedly.
That repetition is how the UK casino licence holders behind the brands become visible, and it is the market's actual structure. It is called white-labelling: one licensed company builds and runs the platform, holds the licence, carries the regulatory risk and handles payments and verification, while other parties supply brands, marketing and audiences. Nothing about it is improper and none of it is concealed. But it changes what a comparison between two casinos means, and no operator has any reason to explain that to you.
03 How to look up who owns any casino in the Gambling Commission register
To find out who owns a casino, take the company name from its own footer — or from any review on this site — and search the Gambling Commission's public register for it. The result is a detail page carrying the account number, the registered address, the licence status and the activities permitted. There is a second page listing every domain the licensee has declared, which is usually the more revealing of the two.
The whole check takes under a minute, and we would rather you did it than took our word. If the register says something different from a page here, the register is right; tell us and we will correct it. Two habits make the check reliable: search the company rather than the brand, and keep the reading date attached to whatever you write down.
04 Why the register cannot be searched by brand or domain
The register lists UK casino licence holders by company name and nothing else, which is the practical failure everything on this site is built around. The register's search matches the names of licensed businesses. It does not match brand names and it does not match domains. Type in the casino you are actually considering and it returns nothing at all — not "unlicensed", not "no match for this brand", nothing. A reasonable person reads that as a red flag when it is nothing of the sort.
Answering who owns UK casinos from the outside is the gap our lookup tool exists to close, exactly that gap and nothing wider. It indexes every licensee in the register together with every domain each one declared, so a brand or a domain resolves to a company. When it finds nothing it names the three different things that could mean, because a tool that reported "not found" as though it meant "unlicensed" would repeat the register's mistake in the opposite direction.
05 2,664 licensees, 604 websites: what the rest of the register is
The headline count invites a wrong conclusion. Britain does not have 2,664 online casinos. Of the licensed businesses we read, only 604 declare a website at all. The other 2,060 are the rest of the gambling industry: land-based casinos, bingo halls, arcades and adult gaming centres, betting shops, machine manufacturers and suppliers, software developers, testing houses and lottery operators.
A casino licence UK count is not the same as a casino count, and the number describing the online market is the domain count: 2,135 declared gambling domains. Even that overstates the number of live casinos, because a declared domain may redirect, be reserved, or belong to a site that has closed. What it does prove is intent: the company told the regulator it meant to operate there.
06 The 10 licences that carry this site
37 of the 51 brands reviewed here sit on a licence shared with another brand also reviewed here. Their licensee, registered office, complaints route and platform are not similar, they are the same, and repeating identical facts across 37 pages would be duplication rather than depth. So they are stated once on the company's own page and referenced from each brand. Those pages are listed below.
- Skill On Net Limited Account 39326 · 60 domains · 7 reviewed brands
- LC International Limited Account 54743 · 15 domains · 4 reviewed brands
- L & L Europe Limited Account 38758 · 11 domains · 4 reviewed brands
- ProgressPlay Limited Account 39335 · 185 domains · 3 reviewed brands
- Solaya Group Limited Account 100050 · 8 domains · 3 reviewed brands
- Jumpman Gaming Limited Account 39175 · 227 domains · 2 reviewed brands
- AG Communications Limited Account 39483 · 76 domains · 1 reviewed brand
- White Hat Gaming Limited Account 52894 · 39 domains · 2 reviewed brands
- Gamesys Operations Limited Account 38905 · 13 domains · 2 reviewed brands
- Rank Interactive (Gibraltar) Limited Account 57924 · 13 domains · 2 reviewed brands
07 The largest domain portfolios in the country
Grouped by licence rather than by brand, the market stops looking like a list of competitors. The four largest accounts in our data license 53 of the 139 brands between them, and by declared domains the concentration is starker still.
| Licence holder | Account | Declared domains | Brands we name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jumpman Gaming Limited | 39175 | 227 | 11 |
| ProgressPlay Limited | 39335 | 185 | 11 |
| AG Communications Limited | 39483 | 76 | 3 |
| Grace Media (Gibraltar) Limited | 57869 | 71 | 3 |
| Skill On Net Limited | 39326 | 60 | 12 |
| White Hat Gaming Limited | 52894 | 39 | 19 |
| Apollo Entertainment Limited | 38620 | 27 | 2 |
| Boylesports Enterprise | 39469 | 21 | 1 |
| LC International Limited | 54743 | 15 | 5 |
| Rank Interactive (Gibraltar) Limited | 57924 | 13 | 7 |
| Gamesys Operations Limited | 38905 | 13 | 5 |
| Betway Limited | 39372 | 12 | 3 |
One mark per brand, grouped by the company that licenses it
139 brands. The four burgundy blocks, lightest to darkest, are four companies.
- 19White Hat Gaming Limited
- 12Skill On Net Limited
- 11Jumpman Gaming Limited
- 11ProgressPlay Limited
- 86 spread across the other 44 companies
2 named brands whose licence holder has no page here
Both were found through the register's declared-domain lists and both are genuinely licensed — but their licensee carries too few of the brands covered here to earn a page of its own, and we hold no operational record for the brand itself. Rather than let them disappear from the site, they are named here with what the register does tell us.
- Megariches megariches.com
- Licensed to Videoslots Limited on Gambling Commission account 39380. Its site refuses our reader because we are not in Britain — a British visitor sees it normally, and 14 of the brands we cover answer this way.
- Betnero betnero.co.uk
- Licensed to Anakatech Interactive Limited on Gambling Commission account 48789. Its site refuses our reader because we are not in Britain — a British visitor sees it normally, and 14 of the brands we cover answer this way.
Use this figure Copy the credit line
Reuse is fine. Keep the date attached to the number — the register changes, and a figure without its reading date stops being checkable.
Source: Casino Reviews — Gambling Commission public register, read 31st July 2026.
08 What sharing a licence means for you
Opening accounts at several casinos is a reasonable way to spread risk — provided the casinos are several businesses. When they share an account they are one, and the consequences are concrete. Your verification documents go to one company. Your deposit limits are set by one company's rules. Your withdrawal is released by one payments team. A complaint goes to one complaints desk and, if unresolved, to one adjudicator.
Self-exclusion is the sharpest case. Excluding yourself from a brand may not exclude you from its siblings on the same licence — we could not confirm that it does from any published terms we read, and it should not be assumed. National self-exclusion through GAMSTOP covers every Gambling Commission licensee, which makes it the route that reliably works. Our risk tool collapses a list of casinos into the number of companies it actually represents.
09 Where a complaint actually goes
The full route, step by step — who to write to, what the eight-week rule means, and what the regulator will and will not do.
To the licensed company, always — not to the brand, and not to the Gambling Commission. The Commission regulates operators, issues penalties and can suspend or revoke a licence, but it does not adjudicate individual disputes and does not recover money for players. What the licence guarantees is a route: if the operator cannot resolve your complaint, it must offer an approved alternative dispute resolution provider, free to you.
This is where knowing the licensee stops being trivia. If you hold accounts at four brands on one account and a dispute arises at one of them, you are in dispute with the company holding the other three.
10 Licences outside the UK, and what they do not cover
There is real search demand in Britain for casinos that are not UK-licensed, and it is worth being precise about the trade rather than pretending the demand does not exist. A site operating under another regulator, or none, and accepting British players is outside every protection described on this page: not in GAMSTOP, no mandated fund-protection disclosure, no free adjudicator, and no Commission enforcement if it fails.
The reverse also holds, and it is the point most often missed. A company holding a British licence for its British site can run other sites for other markets under other regulators, where none of the UK conditions apply. A licence covers a market, not a company. The registered office tells you where the business is incorporated; the licence tells you which customers it is allowed to serve.
11 What we could not verify
Three things, stated plainly. Whether a brand-level self-exclusion reaches sister brands on the same licence: no published terms we read say so either way. Which specific laboratory tested a given brand's games, and when: independent testing is a licence condition so it is happening, but certificates are not published per brand, and naming a laboratory without one would be a fabrication. And whether every declared domain under an account is a live casino: the register records the declaration, not the state of the site.
We also cannot confirm that a licensee's brand list is complete. Ours is what we could match; the 897 declared domains across the accounts we cover are certainly more sites than the 139 brands we can name.
12 Read the register yourself
Every claim on this page comes from documents you can open. The register's business detail pages carry the licensee, account, address and status; the domain-names page for each account carries the declared sites. Our reading is dated 31st July 2026. Licences are surrendered, transferred and revoked, companies change hands, and domains are added — so a figure without its reading date has quietly stopped being checkable, including every figure here.
Start from the review index grouped by company, or go straight to the lookup tool if you have a brand or a domain in mind. Deposit floors and withdrawal windows are covered separately, because those come from operators' terms rather than from the regulator, and the difference in evidence matters.
Questions about UK casino licences
16 answers
01 What is a UK gambling licence?
An operating licence issued by the Gambling Commission to a company, permitting it to offer specified gambling activities to people in Britain. It is granted to a business, not to a website: one licence can cover many brands and many domains, which is why a casino's name tells you almost nothing about who holds its licence.
02 Who holds the licence for a casino brand?
The company named on the account, which is rarely the name on the site. Across the 139 brands we cover, 48 companies hold the licences, and 81% of the brands share their account with at least one other brand.
03 How do I check a casino licence?
Open the Gambling Commission's public register and search the licence holder's company name. Each licensee has a detail page at /public-register/business/detail/ followed by its account number, plus a second page listing every domain it has declared. Both are plain pages needing no account.
04 Why can I not search the register by casino name?
Because it is a register of licensed businesses and indexes licensees. Brand names and domains are not matched at all, so searching for the casino you are considering returns nothing — which reads like a warning and is not one. That gap is the reason this site exists and the reason our lookup tool does.
05 Are all 2,664 licensees online casinos?
No, and this is the most misread figure in the register. Only 604 of them declare a website at all. The remaining 2,060 are land-based operators, arcade and bingo halls, software suppliers, machine manufacturers, lottery operators and gambling software testers.
06 What does sharing a licence mean for me as a player?
One company, one platform, one set of terms with the branding changed, one verification queue and one complaints route. The games and the artwork differ. The party you are contracting with, and the party that decides your limits and pays your withdrawals, does not.
07 Does a Malta or Gibraltar address mean a casino is less regulated?
No. A Gambling Commission licence is what permits a company to accept bets from Britain, and the Commission's rules apply in full regardless of where the licensee is incorporated. Most companies behind British casino brands are registered in Malta, Gibraltar, Alderney or Cyprus for corporate reasons unrelated to the standard of British regulation.
08 What does a UK licence actually protect?
Customer funds held at a disclosed protection level; age and identity verification before play and before withdrawal; mandatory participation in the national self-exclusion scheme; deposit limits and reality checks; and free access to an approved alternative dispute resolution provider for a complaint the operator cannot settle.
09 What does a UK licence not protect?
It does not guarantee you will be treated well, that a dispute will be decided in your favour, or that your balance is insured the way a bank deposit is. It also does not follow the company offshore: the same business can run sites for other markets, under other regulators, where none of this applies.
10 Where does a complaint about a casino actually go?
To the licensed company first — the one on the account, not the brand. If it is unresolved after eight weeks the operator must offer an approved ADR provider at no cost to you. The Gambling Commission itself does not adjudicate individual disputes or recover money for players.
11 What are non-UK licensed casinos?
Sites operating under another regulator, or none, and taking British players anyway. They fall outside every protection listed above: no GAMSTOP, no mandated fund protection, no free adjudicator. The search demand for them is substantial, which is a reason to be clear about what is being given up rather than to serve it.
12 How many casino brands can one licence cover?
There is no fixed limit. In our data White Hat Gaming Limited covers 19 brands we can name, and by declared domains Jumpman Gaming Limited lists 227 under a single account. A licence is a permission held by a company, and a company can trade under as many names as it declares.
13 Do licences expire?
They continue while the fees are paid and the conditions are met, so there is no renewal date to check. What does change is status: licences are surrendered, suspended and revoked, and companies are taken over. That is why every figure on this site carries the date it was read — 31st July 2026 for the register data.
14 Can a licensed company lose its licence?
Yes. The Commission can suspend or revoke a licence and regularly issues penalties for failures in anti-money-laundering controls and social responsibility. The register shows current status, which is why the status line matters as much as the account number.
15 Which licence pages do you publish?
10, covering the companies that carry three or more of the brands reviewed here plus the largest domain portfolios. 37 of the 51 reviewed brands sit on a licence shared with another reviewed brand, so those shared facts are stated once on the company's page rather than repeated on each brand.
16 Why publish a page about licences at all if nobody searches for them?
Because they are the answer rather than the question. Search demand for licence and ownership terms is tiny — the phrase "casino licence uk" is about 20 searches a month. Readers search for brands. The licence is what turns a brand search into a useful answer, and grouping brands by licence is what stops 51 pages repeating the same facts.