Source one: the Gambling Commission public register
The register is the primary source for everything about licences. It is published by the
regulator, free, needs no account, and each licensee has a stable page at
/public-register/business/detail/<account number> carrying the legal name,
account number, registered address, licence status and permitted activities. A second page at
/public-register/business/detail/domain-names/<account number> lists every
domain that licensee has declared.
We read all of it: 2,664 licensed businesses, of which 604 declare a website at all, carrying 2,135 gambling domains between them. That reading is dated 31st July 2026 and is what the lookup tool searches.
Two limits are worth stating. The register's search matches licensee company names only — not brands, not domains — which is the gap this site was built to close. And a declared domain is a declaration of intent, not proof of a live casino: it may redirect, be reserved, or belong to a site that has closed.
Source two: operators' own published terms
Deposit floors, maximums, minimum withdrawals, stated payout windows, verification turnarounds, fee text and payment-method lists come from each operator's own published terms and payment pages. Fee clauses are quoted verbatim rather than summarised, because summarising is how a fixed per-transaction charge becomes "fees may apply".
These are claims a company makes about itself. They are useful and they are not regulator records, so every review marks them stated, not tested. We have not made a deposit or timed a withdrawal at any casino on this site, and no page implies we have.
What is not a source
No press releases, no affiliate briefing packs, no operator-supplied review copy, and no aggregated data from other affiliate sites. Where a figure could only have come from a rival's page, it does not appear.
We also do not publish return-to-player percentages, game counts sourced from marketing, or testing-laboratory names. That last one is a specific caution: independent game testing is a licence condition so it is certainly happening, but certificates are not published per brand. Naming a laboratory without one would be a fabrication — the precise error that put "four laboratories including iTech Labs" on sixteen pages of an earlier project when the truth was eight and iTech was not among them.
Keyword and demand data
Which brands and which subjects get pages was decided from manual keyword exports for the UK market. That data shapes what we cover; it never appears as a fact on a page, and it never determines what a page says about an operator.
The internal data layer
Facts live in one place and are rendered from it, rather than being retyped per page. The 139 operator records and 48 licence records behind this site are generated files: figures on a page are read from them at build time, so a page cannot drift out of step with the data. Counts and comparisons in the prose are computed, not typed — which is why you will not find a hand-written total anywhere.
Dates, and why they are attached to numbers
Licences are surrendered, transferred, suspended and revoked; companies are bought; terms are rewritten without notice. A figure can therefore become wrong while the page stays unchanged, which is why every licence figure carries the date it was read and why reuse of our charts asks you to keep the date attached. An undated licence claim goes on being repeated long after it stops being true.
Check us
Everything above is open. Take any company name from a review, search it in the register, and compare. If the register disagrees with us, the register is right — tell us and see how corrections are handled. The method behind the checks is on the assessment page.
Questions about where the facts come from
5 answers
01 What is the primary source for the licence data?
The Gambling Commission's public register, read in full: 2,664 licensed businesses, of which 604 declare a website, and 2,135 declared domains. Each licence page links to the company's own entry so any figure can be confirmed at source in one click.
02 Where do the deposit and withdrawal figures come from?
The operator's own published terms and conditions, read on a stated date and quoted as written. Where an operator's wording is unusual it is left as written rather than tidied into a shape it does not fit. Where an operator publishes nothing, the field is absent rather than estimated.
03 Do you use third-party ratings or traffic estimates?
No. Some brands carry a Trustpilot score or an Ahrefs estimate and many do not, and a column that exists for some rows and not others invites the reader to read the gap as a verdict. Where a figure cannot be produced for every brand on the same basis, it is not on the site.
04 How current is any of this?
Every page prints the date its data was read. Licence details move slowly; payment integrations and withdrawal windows change without notice, which is why those carry the operator's wording and a date rather than being presented as current fact.
05 What happens when a source contradicts the site?
The register wins. It is the authority for anything about licensing, and where our records disagree with it the records are wrong. Tell us and it is corrected, with the correction recorded on the corrections page.